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• Since then, gas prices have gone up. Grocery prices have gone up.
• The prices of groceries are up. The price of gas is up. The price of housing is up.
• The price of everything is up. The price of everything is up.
• We're raising the price of money.
• That when you buy that 30-year mortgage on an average-priced home, and I think we used an average-price

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• So this is a price strip that I pulled off today's world pricing.
• That means you can take less degraded rock and get more oil out of it at the same price as a two-mile
• We, at a time when oil prices were going down, the fact that we were able to get these major players
• You can go out and drill four Bakken wells or four Permian wells for that price.
• We've got better uses for natural gas, volatility of potential of price of natural gas.

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee received a compliance and status update on Industrial Commission programs and the Bank of North Dakota. Staff reviewed appropriations and spending for several Industrial Commission funds and grant programs, including lignite research, oil and gas research, clean sustainable energy, grid resiliency, salt cavern analysis, and the new NDSU research and technology park grant. Members discussed the timing of reimbursements, uncommitted balances, and the structure of the pipeline capacity and enhanced oil recovery funding. The Industrial Commission also reported on its administrative budget, grant management system project, and recent leadership transitions across several agencies. Karen Tyler of the Industrial Commission described active grant rounds and the status of major projects. She said the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority approved three projects in its sixth round, with remaining uncommitted cash and loan capacity still available, though no new funding was appropriated this session. She also said the Oil and Gas Research Council approved six enhanced oil recovery projects and expects additional funding after a federal Department of Energy award replaces one project’s state funding. For grid resiliency grants, she said some projects have been funded, some commitments were returned or reallocated, and some DOE funds remain pending. She also updated the committee on the salt cavern business case study, which replaced an earlier larger development proposal, and on the NDSU research park grant, where the nonmatching portion was paid and the matching portion has moved slowly because the match must be in cash. Ron Ness then gave an extended presentation on enhanced oil recovery and North Dakota oil and gas trends. He said production remains steady, but future growth depends on infrastructure, especially gas takeaway and projects like the Bakken East pipeline. He argued that enhanced oil recovery using CO2, natural gas, surfactants, and other methods could extend Bakken production for decades, but that the state needs more CO2 supply, better storage, and updated tax and regulatory incentives. Members asked about lateral lengths, CO2 availability, pipeline impacts, and the role of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and Ness emphasized that the projects are intended to share technical learning across operators and attract follow-on investment. The Bank of North Dakota then presented its compliance report and strategic update. President Don Morgan said the bank’s mission remains to support North Dakota agriculture, commerce, and industry while cooperating with the state’s financial sector. He reviewed the bank’s main business lines: participation lending with community institutions, student loans, disaster lending, mission-based programs, and a new fintech-focused effort. Morgan said deposits are flattening, so the bank is managing balance sheet growth carefully, while still reporting improved net income and strong efficiency. He also introduced Rough Rider Coin as a bank-to-bank payment rail, not a public cryptocurrency, intended to speed and modernize payments within North Dakota’s banking and credit union system. Committee members asked about student loan eligibility, disaster program use, and how credit lines and liquidity would be affected if deposits shrink.

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• Median home prices in Massachusetts have climbed almost 75% since 2000.
• Families are being priced out of the communities they’ve called home.
• Those are communities where working families are being priced out and displaced.
• Those are communities where working families are being priced out and displaced.
• In Massachusetts, the median home price is now over $660,000 for young families.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Housing opened a hybrid hearing focused on housing production bills, with Chairs Julian Cyr and Rich Haggerty emphasizing Massachusetts’ housing shortage and the need to produce more than 200,000 units over the next decade. The committee then heard testimony on a wide range of proposals, including social housing, starter homes and the “missing middle,” accessory dwelling units (ADUs), single-stair residential buildings, permanent affordability homeownership, and housing for people with disabilities. Several witnesses framed the bills as tools to expand supply, lower costs, and address racial and generational wealth gaps. Representative Connolly testified for H. 1478 on the Massachusetts Social Housing Program, describing publicly owned, mixed-income housing financed through a revolving loan fund. Senator Feeney testified for S. 989 on missing middle starter homes, arguing for zoning changes, incentives, and affordability tools to support smaller starter homes and duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes. Multiple witnesses, including housing advocates, real estate representatives, and local officials, supported the ADU trust fund bill and the single-stair study bill, saying they would reduce barriers, support homeowners, and enable more family-sized and infill housing. Some witnesses opposed bills they said would weaken ADU reforms or add new restrictions, while others urged broader deregulation to speed production. A major portion of the hearing focused on H. 1576/S. 1010, the Homes for Lasting Affordability bill, which would create a permanent affordability homeownership program for low- and moderate-income buyers and support small developments with long-term affordability restrictions. Testimony from community land trust leaders, legislators, and housing advocates emphasized that permanent affordability can preserve public investment, stabilize neighborhoods, and help families build wealth over generations. Senator Miranda and Representative Worrell tied the bill to closing the racial wealth gap and expanding access to homeownership for Black and Latino residents. The committee also heard testimony on S. 971, which would reform the Housing Development and Incentive Program to require more affordability in Gateway City projects. The committee additionally heard from Senator Kennedy and disability advocates on S. 1004, which would strengthen the Alternative Housing Voucher Program for people with disabilities by codifying project-based vouchers and aligning the program more closely with other voucher systems. Witnesses described long waitlists and the lack of accessible, affordable units as major barriers that can lead to homelessness or unnecessary institutionalization. No votes were taken during the hearing; the session was devoted to testimony and questions from committee members.

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• On slide three, This is talking about rising health insurance prices.
• The list prices give you an idea of the cost for Wigovi, which is another GLP-1.
• , is required to report those prices and trends on drugs.
• In 2025, has prohibited pharmacy benefit managers from spread pricing.
• Try and control, reduce prices of the cost of prescriptions.

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• So there's only so low an actuarially appropriate price can go, and we're setting rates based on that
• In other words, if everybody's actuarially accurate, there's only so low that the price can go.
• Prices are coming down and in some cases are coming down rapidly.
• accurate, there's only so low that the price can go.
• accurate, there's only so low that the price can go.

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• <00:52:46.720> adult<00:52:46.800> license of a full-price adult license of a full-price
• And that price tag is pretty hefty.
• We were doing great price of diesel.
• "Here's where Here's the price point. "Here's where Here's the price point.
• <03:22:41.720> points and figure out what those price points and figure out what those price

Keywords: 916, all

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• Chairman Price, welcome to the committee. It's been a long day.
• Back on your bill, Chairman Price. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
• Senator Price, you are a master of the rules in this institution.
• It was Senator Price. I applaud him for doing what he's doing.
• I told Senator Price in the email that amended map, I should say.

Bills: SB116, SB121, SB130, SB407

Keywords: redistricting, congressional districts, Louisiana, 2020 census, elections, precincts, voting, election, political representation, 2026 precincts, demographics, Louisiana congressional map, U.S. House, election districts, precinct shapefiles, Voting Districts, VTD, 2020 Census, 2026 Precinct Shapefiles, apportionment

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• with all of this to provide even more reliability with supply and availability of that supply and pricing
• Also for pricing and reliability of that pricing.
• And that will provide us domestically, stable market, not just in supply, but also in pricing and the
• think everybody hears about exports of LNG, the international market will help keep those domestic prices
• the production onboard ID into the country and that the production continues at good rates and our prices

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• THE VENDOR SETS THE PRICE BASED ON THEIR PRICING.
• PRICING.
• WITH THE PRICES THAT I SAID, YOU SAID THEY ARE SET BY THE VENDOR.
• WE WORK WITH THE VENDOR TO MAKE SURE WE GET BETTER PRICING THAN WHAT THEIR LIST PRICE IS.
• WE HAVE PRICING THAT IS BETTER THAN THAT. >> Chair Persons-Mulicka: YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. >> Rep.

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• will continue to be transparent and communicate with the legislature and the public on insurance prices
• Some states prioritize price regulation.
• These two policy goals, availability and price, often conflict.
• As well with the other prices of insurance.
• So they are seeing positive trends, um, And hopefully that will continue to reflect in Texas prices,

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• approval of contracts by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and inflation adjustment of the maximum price
• approval of contracts by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and inflation adjustment of the maximum price
• of natural gas, relating to an alternative volumetric tax and... ...maximum price of natural gas, relating
• approval of contracts by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, and inflation adjustment of the maximum price
• of natural gas; relating to an alternative volumetric tax on natural gas throughput. ...on the price

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• Is that price per user, and what’s the approximate cost?
• Yeah, so price per user at the government sector. So it is price per user. It is an opt-in.
• axis, the higher the price change, right?
• The more dramatic the price change.
• The more dramatic the price change.

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• Is that price per user and what's the approximate cost?
• Is that price per user and what's the approximate cost?
• Yeah, so price per user at the government sector. So it is price per user. It is an opt-in.
• axis, the higher the price change, right?
• The more dramatic the price change.

Summary: The committee held its first meeting on artificial intelligence and data centers, establishing its purpose as a study and policy-development body rather than one aimed at producing many bills. Majority Leader Hogue urged members to move quickly, focus on federal and other states’ AI laws, consider possible federal preemption, child protections, and the siting and economic impacts of data centers. Committee leadership echoed that the goal is practical, balanced governance that protects North Dakota while allowing innovation to continue. Legislative Council staff provided a background memo and NCSL presented a detailed overview of AI concepts and the current state legislative landscape. The presentations distinguished narrow AI, generative AI, agentic AI, and theoretical AGI/ASI, and summarized major state policy themes: comprehensive AI laws in states such as Utah, Colorado, Texas, California, and Illinois; targeted laws on deepfakes, chatbots, health, education, notifications, and digital likeness; and growing use of appropriations and agency inventories. Members asked about Colorado’s repeal and reenactment, Texas’s sandbox and training provisions, oversight structures, and whether AI regulation is bipartisan; presenters said most issues cut across party lines, with broad agreement on child safety and deepfakes but more division on broader regulatory approaches. The federal update focused on executive orders, preemption, and congressional activity. NCSL described a White House framework favoring a single federal standard, a DOJ litigation task force, Commerce Department review of state laws, and possible funding conditions tied to state AI policy, though no formal state-law challenge had yet occurred. The presentation also covered a recent executive order creating a voluntary federal vetting process for advanced frontier models after safety concerns, and congressional proposals including a failed 10-year state moratorium, Senator Blackburn’s child-safety bills, the Kids Online Safety Act, a House-passed children’s digital safety package, a Senate data center moratorium proposal, and a House ratepayer/data-center bill. The committee took no formal action beyond receiving testimony and asking questions.

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• I rise in support of A4085, the Fair Price Protection Act.
• worse with surveillance pricing.
• on the shelf and the price that showed up were different.
• Same price for diapers as people with young kids. This is insanity.
• This tax comes right back to us in higher contract prices.

Keywords: 1146, all

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• So this is a price strip that I pulled off today's world pricing.
• That means you can take less degraded rock and get more oil out of it at the same price as a two-mile
• We, at a time when oil prices were going down, the fact that we were able to get these major players
• You can go out and drill four Bakken wells or four Permian wells for that price.
• We've got better uses for natural gas, volatility of potential of price of natural gas.

Summary: The committee received a compliance and budget update on Industrial Commission agencies and programs, including the Industrial Commission administrative office, the Oil and Gas Research Program, the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority, the State Energy Research Center, the Research Technology Park grant program, and related funds. Staff reviewed spending and balances for items such as electric grid resiliency grants, lignite research, enhanced oil recovery, the salt cavern business case study, and the new NDSU research and technology park grant. Members also discussed timing, carryover balances, matching requirements, and how some programs are structured to reimburse projects over several years rather than spend funds immediately. Karen Tyler of the Industrial Commission described the agency’s administrative budget, the grant management system nearing completion, and the transition to standalone audits and staffing after separating from other agencies. She also outlined the status of active grant rounds across lignite, oil and gas, renewable energy, outdoor heritage, and clean sustainable energy programs. Members asked about the length of active grants, demand for clean energy funding, and the possibility of future grant rounds. Tyler and members also discussed the salt cavern study, the need to better define its commercial value, and the research technology park grant’s cash-match requirement. Ron Ness then testified on enhanced oil recovery and broader oil and gas market conditions. He said North Dakota production remained steady, but future growth depends on infrastructure, longer laterals, and better use of natural gas and carbon dioxide for EOR. He described the state’s EOR grant round, the use of federal DOE funding to replace part of a state-funded project, and the expectation of additional grant rounds. Members asked about CO2 supply, storage, and the economics of using legacy fields and pipelines to extend oil production and support agriculture and industrial uses. The committee also heard from Bank of North Dakota President Don Morgan, who reviewed the bank’s mission, governance, lending verticals, disaster programs, and new initiatives. He said the bank is seeing deposit growth flatten and is responding to fintech competition by focusing on liquidity, risk management, and a new payment infrastructure initiative called Rough Rider Coin, which he emphasized is not crypto and not a public coin, but a banking payment rail for North Dakota institutions. Members asked about student loan rates, disaster lending, and how the bank’s lines of credit and balance sheet capacity are affected by deposit trends. Morgan said the bank remains profitable and continues to support agriculture, commerce, and industry through participation loans, student lending, and state-directed programs.

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• Just as in its time when you hit 20 million barrels a day off market, the price was really fluctuated
• So this is a price strip that I pulled off today's world pricing.
• That means you can take less degraded rock and get more oil out of it at the same price as a two-mile
• You can go out and drill four Bakken wells or four Permian wells for that price.
• We've got better uses for natural gas, volatility of potential of price of natural gas.

Summary: The committee took roll, approved the March 18 minutes, and then received a compliance-report update on the Industrial Commission and related funds and programs. Staff reviewed the status of one-time appropriations and grant programs, including electric grid resiliency, lignite research, enhanced oil recovery, the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority, the salt cavern business-case study, and the new NDSU research and technology park grant. Members asked about funding balances, reimbursement timing, matching requirements, and how some commitments would affect the State Investment Fund and future biennia. Industrial Commission staff then gave a broader update on the agency’s administrative office, grant management system, leadership transitions at several commission agencies, and active grant rounds. They reported that the grant management system is nearing completion, that several agency leadership searches have concluded, and that the commission’s grant programs currently have 108 active grants totaling more than $165 million. They also described the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority round, the oil and gas research program’s enhanced oil recovery awards, the grid resiliency grants, the salt cavern study, and the research technology park program, noting that some projects are awaiting federal funds or additional matching cash. Ron Ness, speaking for the Oil and Gas Research Council, focused on the state of the oil industry and the enhanced oil recovery “Bakken 2.0” effort. He said production remains steady, but future growth depends on better infrastructure, longer laterals, and new EOR methods such as CO2, natural gas, and surfactants. He emphasized the importance of the Bakkeneast pipeline and related gas-utilization projects, the recent DOE funding that will return some money to the research council, and the need to modernize tax and incentive rules for CO2-based recovery. Members discussed the potential economic benefits for oil, agriculture, and manufacturing. The Bank of North Dakota then presented its compliance report and a broader strategic update. Bank leadership reviewed the bank’s mission, governance, participation lending, student lending, disaster programs, and legislatively directed programs, and said the bank is managing for a flatter deposit base and stronger liquidity because of fintech competition and changing market conditions. They reported improved earnings, with net income rising to about $231 million, and described Rough Rider Coin as a new internal payment rail for North Dakota banks and credit unions, not a public cryptocurrency. Members asked about student loan eligibility, disaster lending, and the bank’s capacity to support state programs while maintaining its balance-sheet and liquidity requirements.

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• Medium price will also rise.
• Housing prices proponents think, causing prices of single families to rise, not reduce.
• /c> median home price was median home price was $510,000.<02:16:14.800> In<02:16:15.199> 2016
• Um waved all 30,000 over asking price.
• Property taxes prices are record highs.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Again, understand nothing changed in the language with the exception of the price.
• They can reduce their price.
• changed one thing and it was the price changed one thing and it was the price they<00:09:22.079>
• have all gone up, all the parts prices have all gone up, all the parts, everything.
• have all gone up, all the parts prices have all gone up, all the parts, everything.

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• Again, we're going to see tension between what a utility may come what they call an affordable price
• Again, we're going to see tension between what a utility may come what they call an affordable price
• Again, we're going to see tension between what a utility may come what they call an affordable price
• Again, we're going to see tension between what a utility may come what they call an affordable price
• Again, we're going to see tension between what a utility may come what they call an affordable price

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We're cutting our investments in ZEV vehicles again when we have these rising prices for gasoline.
• The high price of gasoline in the country.
• And we'll never, ever get the price of credits to go up very much higher.
• How would you respond to that assessment about pricing? How would you respond to that assessment?
• The second is through that price effect.

Summary: The hearing focused on the governor’s May Revision proposals for transportation, natural resources, climate, and related programs, with the Department of Finance and the LAO presenting competing views on the state’s fiscal condition. Finance said the budget remains balanced over two years, with major climate-bond, water, parks, transportation, DMV, and agriculture proposals, while the LAO argued the state still has a structural deficit and should reject or defer many new discretionary spending items, preserve reserves, and be cautious about ongoing commitments. The LAO specifically questioned the timing and scale of new spending for programs such as Clean California, Healthy Rivers and Landscapes, and the Golden Gate Fields acquisition, and urged more clarity on future obligations and revenue scenarios, including for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. A major portion of the hearing was devoted to the Healthy Rivers and Landscapes proposal for Bay-Delta water quality implementation. Secretary Wade Crowfoot and Finance described it as an enforceable, science-based alternative to a more traditional regulatory approach, with the state’s $25 million request intended to support early implementation, monitoring, habitat restoration, and environmental flows. The LAO countered that the Water Board has not yet adopted the updated Bay-Delta plan, that the proposal may be premature, and that the Legislature should wait for more information on the state’s total funding commitment and the program’s long-term costs. Several members expressed support for the program as a way to reduce conflict and protect water reliability, while others echoed concerns about timing and fiscal exposure. The committee also examined the proposed $125 million Proposition 4 contribution toward acquiring the Golden Gate Fields property for a shoreline park and habitat project. State officials said the acquisition is a time-sensitive, once-in-a-generation opportunity, with an appraised value of $175 million and additional philanthropic and local funding expected to close the gap. Members questioned whether the project had gone through the usual competitive process, whether the site is the best use of scarce park bond dollars, and how public access, habitat, and disadvantaged-community priorities would be protected. The discussion ended without a vote, and the committee moved on to transportation items including Clean California litter abatement, the Games Route Network, homeless encampment coordinators, and DMV modernization and field office proposals, with LAO recommending rejection or delay on several of those requests as well.