Video & Transcript Research : 'hard drive'
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MN
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs May 28th, 2026
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- So, the particular bill, HB 33, we worked real hard on.
- I worked all day and went to the academy at night, so it’s hard.
- Statewide, you can drive it anywhere you want.
- It's hard to find people to go to work.
- And so that is a point I wanted to kind of drive home.
TX
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- We shouldn't make it so hard to start a business.
- And I just want to say that was hard work.
- It's something that's hard to predict what will happen here.
- But it's very hard right now because we can't test it ourselves.
- Other folks are like, it's already hard enough.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Ways and Means held a public FY27 budget hearing at Barnstable Town Hall, with opening remarks emphasizing the Cape and Islands’ seasonal infrastructure, housing, transportation, workforce, and digital needs. The hearing began with testimony from the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, which outlined the Healey-Driscoll administration’s budget priorities for job training, apprenticeship, youth employment, reentry programs, and unemployment insurance modernization. The secretary highlighted proposed funding for the Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund, Career Technical Initiative, YouthWorks, reentry workforce development, and services for young adults with disabilities, along with a proposal to streamline youth work permits. Members also discussed the unemployment trust fund, the COVID assessment on employers, rising unemployment, and the need to improve DUA customer service and claims processing.
Committee members asked about job seeker barriers such as child care, housing, transportation, and out-migration of young workers, as well as how to keep Cape Cod graduates and seasonal workers in the region. The administration said its strategy is to pair training with broader affordability investments and to expose students to career pathways earlier, including through middle school, early childhood STEM, YouthWorks, pre-apprenticeships, and Building Pathways. Senators and representatives also raised concerns about regional funding disparities, especially for Hampshire Franklin MassHire, and the administration said it is reviewing MassHire funding and service equity through a policy committee and statewide workforce board. On unemployment assistance, officials reported major improvements in wait times and claims processing, but said they are still working through backlogs and staffing challenges while maintaining program integrity.
The committee then heard testimony from the Executive Office of Economic Development. The secretary described House 2 as a fiscally restrained budget with no new taxes or fees, while preserving core programs and using the Mass Leads Act tools to support competitiveness. EOED’s proposal included funding for the Community One Stop for Growth, rural economic development, social enterprise operating grants, regional economic development organizations, the Workforce Investment Trust Fund, Community Workforce Partnerships, Pathmaker, advanced manufacturing training, life sciences, innovation vouchers, AI initiatives, small business assistance, and tourism and live theater support. The Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation also testified on its FY27 request, focusing on consumer protection, licensing, banking, insurance, and public safety regulation. No votes were taken during the hearing.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Natural Resources Committee Jun 22nd, 2026
Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- He unfortunately could not be here today, but he worked very hard on the Arches Project on behalf of
- We have worked hard to listen to the concerns of our opposition.
- I mean, obviously, we're not hoping to drive anybody out of the state.
- Thanks for your patience and hard work.
- If you're driving on I-5, it's in Santa Nella.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- That don't at all correspond to conditions that drive the need for new transmission.
- Importantly, in Houston, it's a diverse set of factors that are driving that growth.
- But as a customer, it's really hard for me to figure out how you...
- It's kind of like whether we're driving a Ford or a Volkswagen.
- It's hard to hear up here. Good afternoon, members.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, April 30, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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lives <01:18:42.159>to worked hard their entire lives to worked hard - Who's going to drive the trucks?
- Who's going to drive going to come from? Who's going to drive the<05:04:42.560>
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ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Higher Education Funding Review Committee Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:30 am
Transcript Highlights:
- So,” “Yeah, it’s to drive this discussion.
- I think that's hard to defend.
- But it’s so we drive discussion.
- But it’s so we drive discussion.
- But it’s so we drive discussion.
Summary:
The Higher Education Funding Committee met to discuss possible changes to North Dakota’s higher education funding formula, with a particular focus on separating the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences MD program from the general formula. Dr. Jenkins outlined several options for the MD program, including a fixed-funding model, a hybrid model, or keeping it in the formula, and emphasized the need to preserve strong support for medical education while making future funding clearer. He also discussed efforts to increase the share of North Dakota students in the MD program through ND85, expanded recruiting, early acceptance pathways, MCAT prep, a four-plus-one program, and the Primary Care Accelerated Track, along with future cost pressures such as AI licensing and residency growth.
The committee then reviewed a simplified funding model from the University System Office that would base funding more heavily on student FTE, credentials awarded, and a few incentive factors such as small institution and research adjustments. Members questioned the use of placeholder numbers, the lack of a clear methodology for the small institution and research factors, and whether the model would adequately account for differences among institutions, high-cost programs, and graduate education. Several members raised concerns that arbitrary factors would be hard to defend politically and could distort funding or create competition between schools, while others said the exercise was useful as a starting point for discussion.
Alex presented a second alternative that kept the current SIP-code structure but increased CTE weighting, added a progressive economic size factor, and separated out the MD program. His model also added an on-campus face-to-face headcount component and a credentials component, with the intent of rewarding in-person enrollment and completions. Members questioned the use of headcount instead of FTE, how hybrid, online, dual-credit, and off-campus students would be treated, and why face-to-face enrollment was weighted more heavily than completion. No formal votes or final actions were taken; the committee instead continued discussion and asked members to provide direction on which elements, if any, should be developed further.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It is what it's supposed to be and it, it's very hard work. OK, great, uh, I know it is hard work.
- And TFI I think is working very hard to listen.
- cost, it's not going to drive up costs, we take them out and.
- Which ones would drive up costs under their, uh, arguments?
- So we look at bills that will drive that solution. Thank you.
Keywords:
SB 502, Texas peace officers, Health and Human Services Commission, HHSC Office of Inspector General, OIG investigators, law enforcement classification, Schedule C, state employee benefits, injury benefits, peace officer status, commissioned officers, state auditor classification, Government Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, human services, health and human services, law enforcement compensation, public employee benefits, Texas state law enforcement, child welfare
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Higher Education Funding Review Committee Jun 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- If you drive on the west side of the campus of NDSU, it'll look completely different.
- So I still have a hard time.
- We're driving behavior on CIP codes instead of just saying, because we've done that.
- That makes it hard. WEAF. You know, we'd definitely like to see more of that.
- That makes it hard. Weaf. You know, we'd definitely like to see more of that.
Summary:
The committee met to discuss higher education funding and capital building policy. Members first heard an update from NDUS Deputy Commissioner Lisa Johnson on low-producing academic programs. She described a proposed board policy using a five-year rolling window and thresholds of fewer than 10 undergraduate graduates or fewer than 5 graduate graduates, with programs flagged for three consecutive review periods going to the board. Possible outcomes would include continuation, continuation with modifications, inactivation, or termination. Members asked about how the review would account for program costs, service to other students, workforce demand, and the difference between inactivation and termination. Johnson said the board would consider broader factors and that campuses already do detailed program analysis. Several members also asked about cost savings and staffing impacts from program terminations, and Johnson said the board would try to provide more information later.
The committee then received a report on the Capital Building Fund from Jamie Wilkie. He reviewed the program’s history, matching requirements, and recent uses, noting that about $334 million in state and matching dollars has been invested overall, with most going to deferred maintenance and extraordinary repairs. Members discussed whether the program is reducing deferred maintenance and requested updated systemwide data on deferred maintenance and campus space utilization. Wilkie said the board is considering a new study to update deferred maintenance figures, which are based on information more than 12 years old. He also reported that several institutions have used current biennium funds for projects such as residence hall renovations, health sciences housing, generators, and building repairs.
Later, the committee began a detailed walkthrough of a draft bill that would replace the current higher education funding formula with an FTE-based model and also revise the capital building fund structure. The draft would use fall enrollment FTEs, add completion incentives for degrees in in-demand fields, and create a separate research funding component for UND and NDSU tied to doctoral completions and external research expenditures. Members raised concerns about the use of older data in the formula, the treatment of waivers, the weighting of professional and health sciences programs, and the use of CIP codes to define CTE and education incentives. The bill draft would also combine capital building fund tiers, broaden eligible uses for deferred maintenance and legislatively authorized projects, change matching requirements, repeal the old formula chapter and the capital pool, and transfer funds from the Strategic Investment and Improvements Fund into the capital building fund. No final votes were taken during the portion provided; the meeting was primarily discussion and review.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Opening Day Floor Session 01-15-2025 10:00am
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Puahala from my office, the Senate Clerk, Clerk, and the Sergeant at Arms actually did all of the hard
- to allow us to get worked so hard to allow us to get elected<00:34:03.639>
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this to college and he has been driving this to college and he has been driving- Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.' So let us lead with love.
- [Music] inspiration to carry the hard work that inspiration to carry the hard work that we<01:26:17.840
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VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-28 - 10:00AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's hard, but it's always important to know that we work in partnership with folks in the other... .
- I just want to go back to the driving need for this, and that is our education system as well as our
- So health insurance may be cheaper for people who live in the kingdom, but they may need to drive to
- I also want to sincerely thank the Senate for their hard work.
- We took $50,000 and put it into Drive Electric Vermont.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- I was elected to Senate District 7, which includes Clearquay, Union, and Harding Counties.
- Google Drive that has all those items posted.
- And in full disclosure, I do not drive a diesel. I'm driving an electric car. So, Mr.
- So, if you have that money, you know, it's hard for me to understand It's hard for me to understand at
- Chair I just had a hard time with it. I still look at it as a tax.
Bills:
SB2
Keywords:
SB 2, State Highway Project Bonds, highway funding, transportation bonds, state road fund, motor vehicle fees, vehicle registration fees, electric vehicle fee, EV surcharge, plug-in hybrid fee, weight distance tax, road construction, infrastructure financing, Department of Transportation, State Transportation Commission, bonding authority, county road funds, municipal road funds, transportation improvement program, state highways
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Feb 7th, 2026 at 06:52 pm
Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- Are we going to drive off Castilian? Are we going to drive off whoever's behind them?
- Not drive them off. Just say... Are we going to drive off whoever's behind them?
- We work very hard on these bills. We do everything.
- This is an order that is currently driving success.
- We had talked about a hard start-stop time at 8:30.
Keywords:
tax credit, physician, healthcare, income tax, rural health, quantum technology, infrastructure, economic development, New Mexico, corporate tax, research and development, innovation, affordable housing, gross receipts tax, tax deduction, construction materials, multifamily housing, low income, journalism, local news
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Aug 26th, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Those are hard and harsh words, but we're talking about kids' lives, and it's hard not to do that.
- It is hard to find a job here.
- A couple of weeks ago, I was driving beyond the speed limit on my way to Santa Fe.
- So again, in that instance, they're driving in Las Cruces.
- That's so hard because developmentally, I don't know.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Part II) Mar 5th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- It's absolutely what it's supposed to be, and it's very hard work. Okay, great.
- I know it is hard work.
- Which ones would drive up costs under their arguments?
- We look at bills that will drive that solution. Thank you.
- We're trying to drive down the cost.
Keywords:
SB 502, Texas peace officers, Health and Human Services Commission, HHSC Office of Inspector General, OIG investigators, law enforcement classification, Schedule C, state employee benefits, injury benefits, peace officer status, commissioned officers, state auditor classification, Government Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, human services, health and human services, law enforcement compensation, public employee benefits, Texas state law enforcement, child welfare
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Funding Disability Services / Regulating Artificial Intelligence / Senate Media Service’s Upgrade Feb 23rd, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- its own, plus Minnesotans expect their government to prioritize efficient and ethical use of their hard-earned
- What properly done regulation will encourage the kind of innovation that can help drive AI's use in Minnesota
- So it's really hard. The father of a child who's now 72, and his son is 45.
- It's really hard.
- It's really hard.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm kind of hard past anything in the Senate, you know.
- It's really hard.
- It's very hard to dial it back.
- And I know that's hard, you know, because...
- It's a hard, you know, question.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Aug 27th, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, I think this is very, very hard.
- It's hard for us to reconcile those two things.
- questions on hard topics.
- I work hard at doing that.
- You're going to get some hard, hard issues, and we're going to disagree strongly about them.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine improving the Federal environmental review and permitting processes. Feb 19th, 2025 at 09:15 am
Environment and Public Works Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- In my home state of West Virginia, I've seen firsthand how these drive-up in costs, these delays, not
- When we know a project will be built by hard-working laborers, we embed them in our work.
- Delays also drive up costs.
- It purely is just driving down, driving out the length of the review process and driving up costs.
- It will lower the price because the cost of regulation continues to drive.
Keywords:
environmental review, permitting process, infrastructure, bipartisan legislation, economic growth, Nucor, West Virginia
Summary:
The meeting focused on critical discussions surrounding the need for modernizing the federal environmental review and permitting processes. Witnesses from various sectors, including Nucor, provided testimony on the delays and costs associated with current regulations, emphasizing the impact on infrastructure and economic growth. Major projects in West Virginia, such as the Corridor H and Coalfield Expressways, were highlighted as examples of initiatives stalled by excessive permitting hurdles, prompting calls for bipartisan legislation to streamline these processes while maintaining environmental protections. The committee expressed a commitment to address these issues immediately, highlighting the urgency to enhance efficiency in permitting to facilitate economic development.