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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Judiciary (04/22/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary:
The subcommittee work session focused on SB 148 and competing amendments dealing with forfeiture and civil recovery in murder cases. Members compared the “Lynn” and “Burge” amendments and narrowed the remaining disputes to two issues: whether the bill should apply only to first-degree murder or also to second-degree murder and related federal offenses, and whether any civil action could be brought before criminal charges or conviction. The group concluded that the pre-conviction approach created serious practical and constitutional problems, including Fifth Amendment concerns and uncertainty over how a civil case would proceed while a criminal investigation was pending.
The discussion then shifted toward limiting the bill to post-conviction remedies. Members agreed that the Department of Justice pre-charge stay language should be removed, that the bill should not try to define “victim” in a way that included the person convicted of the murder, and that the definition should be revised to mean the estate of the victim or the victim’s immediate family, excluding the convicted person. They also agreed to delete language about “after right to appeal has been exhausted,” to correct a typo on page one, and to remove a section dealing with pre-conviction probate-style procedures and third-party notice issues.
The committee also discussed how to handle third parties such as insurers, publishers, and innocent purchasers. Members concluded that third parties acting in good faith should not be liable if they make payments or transfer property without notice, but if they receive notice they should not disburse funds. They noted that existing post-conviction civil recovery language already allows victims to sue within three years, making the earlier pre-conviction mechanism unnecessary. The meeting ended with the members saying they had reached a deal on the revised language and would bring the updated amendment forward for further processing.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House DFL Press Conference 3/10/25
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, a very close relative of mine is on Zoom with people in Ireland and Germany and India, so going
- You know, a very close relative of mine is on Zoom with people in Ireland and Germany and India, so going
- You know, a very close relative of mine is on Zoom with people in Ireland and Germany and India, so going
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Press Conference: New Bill Adds Metachromatic Leukodystrophy to Newborn Screening List - 2/20/25
Transcript Highlights:
- A coworker and a friend of mine created a whole day dedicated to him on June 19, 2014.
- I knew the hard answer in this new existence of mine: by being worn by another little girl who needed
- I knew the hard answer in this new existence of mine: by being worn by another little girl who needed
- the hard answer in this new<00:26:47.480>
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Environment and natural resources committee hears HF8 - pt. 2 2/13/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Talon has proposed to mine in Tamarack, Minnesota, a nickel mine, but it's also proposed to build a processing
- the bill had met with me and had said, oh, there's no way that this is going to help speed along mining
- But yet today when I heard testimony today, it felt like it could help speed mining along on large projects
- the bill had met with me and had said, oh, there's no way that this is going to help speed along mining
- But yet today when I heard testimony today, it felt like it could help speed mining along on large projects
Summary:
The committee heard extended discussion on House File 8, a bill aimed at changing Minnesota’s permitting and environmental review process. Supporters said the bill is intended to help small and medium-sized businesses and projects that face long delays, and argued that the proposal does not lower environmental standards. They described the bill as modeled in part on provisions used in other states, including a staggered permitting process and an expedited option, and said the goal is to improve transparency, reporting, and real-time public access to permit information.
Members raised concerns about whether the bill could also benefit large corporations and major industrial projects, including mining and other large facilities, rather than just smaller businesses. Several lawmakers questioned the use of county-based public input, the lack of tribal consultation, and how the bill would interact with treaty rights and communities outside the affected county. Others argued that the bill could create risks by speeding permits for bad actors or by allowing larger entities to pay for expedited treatment. Testimony also referenced examples from the Minnesota Chamber’s report, with a witness disputing the claim that permitting alone drove companies out of Minnesota and saying those cases involved more complex facts.
The committee first considered a motion to lay the bill on the table, but that motion failed on a 5-7 roll call. The committee then voted on a motion to re-refer House File 8, as amended, to the Labor and Workforce Development Committee. That motion passed 7-5, and the bill was sent on to that committee.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- a dairy guy in Wisconsin, did mine, he's a dairy guy in Wisconsin, did a<00:03:38.799>
paper < - Iowa's canary in the coal mine here.
- Iowa's canary in the coal mine here.
- Iowa's canary in the coal mine here.
- I I most of mine it actually goes beef.
Bills:
HF3718
Keywords:
veterinary medicine, veterinary technology, animal care, licensing, client consent, continuing education, emergency services, teletriage, 1183, house
Summary:
The Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee met with quorum present, approved the March 2 minutes, and then heard a presentation on economic consolidation in agriculture from Austin Ferk, who said he was not taking additional public testimony. Ferk argued that consolidation in meat, dairy, and grain markets has squeezed farmers on both input and output prices, raised consumer prices, and reduced product quality. He used charts and examples to claim that concentrated markets lead to price gouging, that farmers now receive a historically low share of each food dollar, and that industrial production has contributed to environmental problems, especially in Iowa.
Ferk focused on several large agribusiness firms, especially JBS and Cargill. He described JBS as a dominant meatpacker with a history of bribery allegations and market power across beef, pork, poultry, and leather, and said its ownership of brands can obscure who is actually selling the product. He also criticized Cargill as an opaque, privately held company with enormous influence over grain and food markets, and said the farm bill and crop insurance system have been shaped to favor overproduction of corn and soy rather than diversified farming. He argued that these policies, along with ethanol demand and export-oriented livestock production, have harmed rural communities, increased manure and nitrate pollution, and contributed to health problems.
In the latter part of the presentation, Ferk discussed antitrust and policy responses, including concentration studies, a proposed packer ban that would prevent meatpackers from owning the animals they slaughter, and restrictions on slotting fees and other pay-to-play practices in grocery retail. He also referenced the failed Kroger-Albertsons merger as an example of consolidation harming local communities. No committee vote or formal action was taken on the presentation beyond approving the minutes.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- They had to essentially gut rural communities like mine.
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Um, gut rural communities like mine. Um, gut rural communities like mine. - They had to cut SNAP benefits, the biggest proportion of which comes from rural communities like mine
- Thank you, Madam Chair. ...communities like mine to urban, metro, and coastal elite cities across our
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 02/19/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Mine has a slightly different tweak to it, but basically, except for the little tweak, it is basically
- A business like mine can't come into these agencies as an outsider and request something like this.
- Many of the businesses like mine are too small to even be seen, but right now we’re being categorized
- Businesses like mine need room to do what we do best, and we need room to grow. sympathy things they
- are too small to even be seen but mine are too small to even be seen but right<01:08:40.839>
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NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Village of Milan, and the coal mines are at less than half capacity as of now.
- Uranium mines went away.
- But again, I don't want to touch too much on jobs; jobs are a concern of mine.
- But again, I don't want to touch too much on jobs; jobs are a concern of mine.
- But on the other question of, I don't know. ...or a concern of mine, I know we've talked a lot about
Bills:
SB100
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Commerce committee hearing on HF2149, the 'Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act' 3/26/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Districts like mine, districts like Representative Schultz's, who's here with me, and districts like
- Districts like mine, districts like Representative Schultz's, who's here with me, and districts like
- Districts like mine, districts like Representative Schultz's, who's here with me, and districts like
- I understand the merit of this bill, and it's very important to communities like mine as being a new
- I understand the merit of this bill, and it's very important to communities like mine as being a new
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, December 16, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- For a family like mine, that means an extra $100 per person per month. Money we simply don't have.
- mill sites, to establish the abandoned hard rock mine fund, and for other purposes.
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and the abandoned hard rock mine fund and the abandoned hard rock mine fund and - Uh even in districts like mine, now.
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and the abandoned Hard Rock Mine Fund and the abandoned Hard Rock Mine Fund and
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Since he's a constituent of mine, I know it's spelled F A Y E, pronounced Faye.
- Since he's a constituent of mine, I know Since he's a constituent of mine, I know it's<00:07:00.000><
Bills:
SCR47, SCR21, SCR163, SCR169, SCR170, SCR50, SCR75, SCR149, HCR83, HCR111, HCR110, HCR122, HCR118, HCR61, HCR162, HCR36, HCR19, HCR106, HCR14, HCR178, SB3022, SB3102, SB3144
Keywords:
sister-state, Hawaii, Okayama, Japan, cultural exchange, economic partnership, tourism, agriculture, international relations, healthcare, rural clinic, feasibility study, access to care, community health, Volcano community, Hawaiʻi Health Systems Corporation, emergency services, health assessment, Pacific Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, Legislative Cooperation
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Press Conference: For the Love of Texas Feb 27th, 2025 at 10:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- To report that just this past week, a college colleague of mine, a Republican, asked to joint author
- I'm fearful for the many. boys and girls whose dreams, like mine, was to come to Texas will be destroyed
- Many universities like mine over complied needlessly.
Keywords:
education, curriculum, HB178, diverse history, equity, testimony, higher education crisis, representation
Summary:
The meeting was characterized by impactful discussions focused primarily on education and the representation of diverse histories in Texas's curriculum. Notably, Representative Christina Morales advocated for HB178, a bill aimed at ensuring that all Texas high school students have access to Mexican-American and African-American studies as part of their graduation requirements, moving from elective-only status. This bill garnered support from both sides of the aisle, highlighting a cooperative effort to improve educational equity in Texas. Several representatives shared personal stories reflecting on the importance of inclusive education, showcasing the bill's far-reaching implications for students' sense of identity and history.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- of changes trying to improve our economic development with the closing of our power plant and coal mining
- I have the uranium capital of the world, which used to have coal mines, power plants, and refineries
- We said one coal mine in my district.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Workforce Development Committee Meeting - 2026-04-16
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the extended unemployment insurance benefits for iron ore mining people.
- This is the extended unemployment insurance benefits for iron ore mining people.
- It extends unemployment benefits through March 20, 2027, for iron ore mining workers subject to mass
- This is the extended unemployment insurance benefits for iron ore mining people.
- mining additional unemployment benefits. mining additional unemployment benefits.
Bills:
HF3732
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Fifty Eight - Monday, April 27
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Speaker, I'd like to introduce my intern for this year, Connor Pinkley, who is a constituent of mine,
- I appreciate my Republican colleague from the Irwin district, whose language mirrored mine, and together
- I appreciate my Republican colleague from the Irwin district, whose language mirrored mine, and together
- I appreciate my Republican colleague from the Irwin District, whose language mirrored mine, and together
Summary:
The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then approved the House Journal for the prior day by a 125-0 roll call vote. The chamber spent a large portion of the session on personal privileges and memorials, honoring former Representative Ken Waller and Rawls County teenager Keaton O’Neill, with a moment of silence observed for O’Neill. Members also introduced several guests, including a deployed Marine, legislative visitors, family members, and an intern who was made a page for the day.
The House then considered several committee reports and Senate amendments. On House Bills 2637 and 3155, members discussed a broad criminal justice package that included technical fixes to prior sentencing legislation, sex offender registry changes, drone restrictions tied to major events, health care-related provisions, and prosecutor salary adjustments; the House voted to refuse the Senate substitute and request a conference. House Bill 2593, a bipartisan military and veterans measure, was adopted and finally passed 137-1 and 138-1 after debate highlighting cybersecurity protections, Service Members Civil Relief Act language, TRICARE protections, expanded military leave, National Guard benefits, and other support for service members and families.
The House also adopted and finally passed House Bill 2974, a licensure reciprocity and telehealth bill that expands interstate practice options for certain health professionals and is intended to improve rural health access; the votes were 109-29 on adoption and 108-30 on final passage. House Bill 2108, a Jefferson City land conveyance and infrastructure bill related to the viaduct and safety improvements, was adopted and finally passed 138-1 and 138-2 after discussion of the state’s transfer of property to the city and an added land provision involving Northwest Missouri State University and Nodaway County. The chamber then received Senate messages on HB 2596 and HB 2637/3155, appointed conference committees, announced upcoming committee meetings, and adjourned until April 28, 2026.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- And then lastly, another dear friend of mine who's also in the gallery and also here for today's presentation
- >> And then lastly, another dear friend of >> And then lastly, another dear friend of mine
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for
Bills:
SB3225, HCR53, HCR57, HCR101, HB1878, HB1481, SCR40, SCR59, SCR114, SCR197, SCR198, SR30, SR107, SR185, SR186
Keywords:
statutory revision, Hawaii Revised Statutes, clarification, obsolete provisions, legal accuracy, University of Hawaii, Board of Regents, associate degree, degree audit, reverse transfer, credit audit, student completion, credential attainment, community college transfer, four-year campus, higher education, postsecondary attainment, workforce development, student retention, graduation pathways
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Families and Children. (3-19-26)
Families & Children
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill would give families like mine a better chance.
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give <00:10:56.560>families <00:10:57.000>like <00:10:57.200>mine - This bill would give families like mine This bill would give families like mine a<00:10:57.480><
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 13 January, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Boyce Davis from West Point, Mississippi, a good friend of mine.
- Mississippi, good from West Point, Mississippi, good friend<00:26:53.840>
of <00:26:54.000>mine - friend of mine. Thank you. friend of mine. Thank you.
Summary:
The Senate convened, the clerk called the roll, and a quorum was declared. The chamber then heard an invocation by Reverend Curtis Strong of Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist Church, followed by the pledge of allegiance led by Senator Thomas. The Senate approved motions to dispense with the reading of the journal, committee reports, and the titles of bills and resolutions. Several guests were introduced, including members of the Convention of the States in Mississippi, a Yazoo County delegation celebrating Yazoo Day at the Capitol, the doctor of the day, Dr. Pete Ara of Pascagoula, former senator and BEAM director Sally Doty, the Mississippi Worker Center for Human Rights and City University of New York group, and a group of junior pages.
The main floor action was a resolution honoring Dr. Charles Mlen, commissioner of the Southwestern Athletic Conference and newly appointed NCAA board of governors member, for his financial and athletic impact and for elevating the national image of the SWAC. Senator Norwood presented the resolution and Dr. Mlen addressed the Senate, speaking about his Mississippi roots and thanking the chamber for the recognition. The Senate also recognized additional Yazoo County visitors and other guests in the gallery.
Members then made a series of announcements about upcoming committee meetings and events, including the legislative prayer breakfast, a Visit Jackson reception, budget hearings, an air task force meeting, and tourism committee business. Several senators asked that the Senate adjourn in memory of individuals including Shelton McCay, Delmo Payne, Mayor Dale Barry, Cynthia Patterson Bond, Boyce Davis, and Nona Living Plazo. The Senate ultimately adopted Senator Blackwell’s motion to stand in recess until 5:00 p.m., with the journal to reflect adjournment until 10:00 a.m. the next morning.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So mine is 16 years. That was... Senator Nichols, H.J.R. was 15 years.
- That is the canary in the coal mine because of the length it takes to develop supply.
- We are the canary in the coal mine, as Senator Perry says, just a different mine.
Keywords:
alcohol, taxation, reporting requirements, sales, distribution, death tax, inheritance tax, estate tax, property transfer, constitutional amendment, water fund, Texas water supply, state revenue, infrastructure, HJR 7, Texas Legislature, quorum, majority quorum, two-thirds quorum, legislative procedure
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
April 10, 2025 - 09:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- These are coming from Wall Street's words, not mine.
- we've watched this turn into a massive investment for every single... ...from Wall Street's words, not mine
- Because I was instructed by a contractor friend of mine that I could fight what they said they were going
- to pay me through that desk. ...contractor friend of mine that I could fight what they said they were
Summary:
The Insurance and Banking Committee met with a quorum and heard three bills. HB 487 would authorize the CFO and State Board of Administration to invest up to 10% of certain state funds in Bitcoin, require specified custody methods, allow Bitcoin lending under rule, and create a process for accepting taxes and fees in Bitcoin. The sponsor and several proponents argued it would diversify state investments, hedge inflation, and position Florida as a leader in digital assets. Members raised concerns about volatility, security, valuation, and whether Bitcoin was being singled out over other cryptocurrencies, but the bill was reported favorably after debate and a roll call vote.
The committee then considered HB 7011, an Open Government Sunset Review measure for records of insolvent insurers. The bill would continue some exemptions but make additional records public, including underwriting files, risk-solvency assessments, corporate governance annual disclosures, and the names, benefits, and compensation of insurance executive officers. There was no public testimony, and members discussed privacy and safety concerns, but the bill passed and was reported favorably.
Finally, the committee heard HB 1433 on hurricane mitigation grants and insurer regulation. The bill would tighten restrictions on former executives of failed insurers, raise capital requirements for new insurers, and require mitigation credits when homeowners receive Safe Florida Home funds. An amendment was adopted to require a licensed person to make final claim-denial decisions when AI or automation is used and to prioritize filings that lower rates. Consumer advocates supported the transparency and consumer protections, while industry representatives urged caution on the AI provisions. After debate, the amended bill was reported favorably. The meeting ended with closing remarks from the ranking member, vice chair, and chair reflecting on the committee’s work and likely final meeting of the term.