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• /c><00:02:58.560> show practices in violence prevention show practices in violence prevention
• This is aligned with best practice and violence prevention in the violence prevention field as a whole
• This is aligned with best practice and violence prevention in the violence prevention field as a whole
• This is aligned with best practice and violence prevention in the violence prevention field as a whole
• This is aligned with best practice and violence prevention in the violence prevention field as a whole

Keywords: 1183, house

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• If there is a mark on my record, it provides... it prevents me from getting hospital privileges.
• It prevents me from getting a license in another state.
• We used to take it on Sundays as medicine for malaria prevention.
• Most people we even put on prevention got well, and they did not get sick.
• There are many factors in this bill that prevent significant problems.

Bills: SB331, SB883, SB926, SB1137, SB1138, SB1144, SB1151, SB1236, SB1270, SB1522, SB1869, SB2207, SB2422

Keywords: healthcare, cost disclosure, transparency, administrative penalties, health facility compliance, COVID-19, off-label use, prescription drugs, patient access, medical standards, insurance, physician ranking, incentives, fiduciary duty, health plan issuers, SB 1137, group home, assisted living, residential care, board and care

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• But how do we prevent an illegal from getting an ID and a voter's registration at the same time?
• First and foremost is how quickly Florida proactively initiated increased front-end fraud prevention
• First and foremost is how quickly Florida proactively initiated increased front-end fraud prevention
• Do we have any tech in there to prevent the frequent flyer, so to speak, a person who just gets a job
• And that's why I was asking, is there AI in there that prevents a frequent flyer?

Summary: The subcommittee heard updates on several state technology modernization efforts, beginning with the Florida Division of Emergency Management’s Enterprise Business Solution (DEMS). FDEM said DEMS is about 50% complete, with some grants and finance functions already live, and is intended to replace manual disaster and grants processing with a cloud-based system. Officials described faster reimbursement timelines after recent storms, major return-on-investment claims, and a planned final phase focused on design, testing, communications, data governance, and additional functionality. Members asked about the total cost, the role of Florida Digital Service, deliverables-based contracting, and how much of the system is live; FDEM said the project is expected to cost about $16 million to $16.8 million and finish by June 2027, with some follow-up information to be provided. The Department of Legal Affairs presented its Office of Attorney General Modernization Program, a follow-up to an earlier effort that failed after spending about $26 million. Acting Attorney General John Gard said the department has now moved to an off-the-shelf case management product, LawBase, and is in development and testing, with the Office of Statewide Prosecution already live and full implementation expected by the end of the fiscal year. The request includes funding for staff augmentation, cloud storage, the LawBase license, redundancy through a backup site in Orlando, and OnBase support. Members questioned the prior failure, the use of Florida Digital Service standards, data location and cloud migration, and the redundancy plan; Gard said lessons learned included better scoping and that the current effort is on track. The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles then updated the committee on Motorist Modernization, including the Orion system and the MyDMV portal. Officials said Phase 1 and Phase 2 have modernized driver license and motor vehicle services, with Phase 2 statewide rollout scheduled to begin in April 2025 and Phase 3 proposed at $16.5 million for dealer services, data warehouse improvements, and call center modernization. Members asked about payment options, organ donor questions, staffing, cybersecurity, cloud strategy, and the digital driver license program. The agency said the portal already allows some sanctions to be cleared online, an ACH option is being developed, the digital driver license vendor has changed with a fall go-live anticipated, and the department is using security testing and a managed security service provider. Officials also said the system is currently on an on-prem private cloud, with future workloads expected to move to public cloud where appropriate. Finally, Florida Commerce presented on the Reemployment Assistance modernization system, Reconnect, and the FLWINS workforce system. Commerce said Reconnect is hosted in the Azure Government Cloud, has reduced claim filing time, improved fraud detection, and increased appeals capacity, and now needs $4.9 million in recurring funding to cover ongoing operations, cloud hosting, licenses, and staff augmentation. Members asked about adjudication issues, wait times, fraud prevention, and whether the system stores caller identifiers; Commerce said the average wait to speak to a representative is about 18 minutes and claims are generally processed in four to six weeks. The committee then began hearing about FLWINS, which is intended to create a “no wrong door” workforce portal under the REACH Act, but the transcript cuts off before that presentation concluded.

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• lack any incentive to prevent pollution. lack any incentive to prevent pollution.
• <00:31:13.320> groundwater actions to take to prevent groundwater actions to take to prevent
• , respiratory diseases that are preventable, cancer that is preventable.
• Appreciate the opportunity to testify here with you. preventable death, of five times asthma preventable
• are preventable, respiratory diseases that<02:00:38.920> are<02:00:39.000> preventable,

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• or attempts to intentionally prevents or attempts to intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a
• hope and the purpose is prevention hope and the purpose is prevention prevention from hurting the think
• prevention from hurting the think prevention from hurting the think anybody that prevention the subject
• or he or she intentionally prevents or he or she intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a peace
• or attempt to she intentionally prevents or attempt to she intentionally prevents or attempt to prevent

Bills: HCR 21, HCR 22, HCR 23, HCR 24, HCR 25, HCR 26, HCR 27, HCR 31, HCR 41, HCR 42, HCR 43, HCR 44, HCR 45, HCR 52, HCR 53, HCR 66, HCR 67, HCR 73, HR 8, HR 10, HR 13, HR 20, HR 21, HR 50, HR 59, HR 61, HR 71, HR 74, HR 79, HR 84, HR 86, HR 90, HR 91, HR 102, HR 103, HR 107, HR 113, HR 125, HR 126, HR 132, HR 142, HR 145, HR 149, HR 150, HR 152, HR 167, HR 179, HR 181, HR 183, HR 186, HR 192, HR 196, HR 199, HR 207, HR 211, HR 212, HR 213, HR 216, HR 249, HR 256, HR 259, HR 261, HR 263, HR 272, HR 281, HR 285, HR 294, HR 295, HR 300, HR 305, HR 311, HR 313, HR 315, HR 316, HR 323, HR 331, HR 339, HR 340, HR 346, HR 349, HR 352, HR 357, HR 358, HR 360, HR 363, HR 374, HR 377, HCR 20, HCR 28, HCR 30, HCR 32, HCR 49, HR 14, HR 15, HR 19, HR 23, HR 24, HR 25, HR 26, HR 27, HR 29, HR 47, HR 48, HR 55, HR 56, HR 66, HR 85, HR 92, HR 93, HR 95, HR 96, HR 140, HR 155, HR 164, HR 204, HR 241, HR 242, HR 250, HR 253, HR 260, HR 262, HR 265, HR 279, HR 310, HR 312, HR 328, HR 332, HR 359, HR 362, HR 367

Keywords: recognition, award, petroleum industry, leadership, community service, HCR 22, House Concurrent Resolution, Texas Legislature, commendation, honorary resolution, Dr. James Olson, James Olson, University of Texas Permian Basin, UT Permian Basin, psychology professor, 50 years of service, faculty recognition, academic award, Piper Professor Award, Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award

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• to win the AI race, cure cancer, prevent to win the AI race, cure cancer, prevent the<00:20:31.919
• prevented from calling themselves prevented from calling themselves Muslims<00:54:33.760> under
• Research and Preventive Services Act. Research and Preventive Services Act.
• and Preventive Services Act. and Preventive Services Act.
• :28:17.439> and despite progress in prevention and despite progress in prevention and treatment

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• So, it prevents the loss of the home.
• <01:30:35.360> discrimination trained on to prevent discrimination trained on to prevent discrimination
• problems on the employees to prevent problems on the front<01:30:42.320> end.
• Bird Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Bird Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
• <02:22:04.240> from is to prevent discrimination from is to prevent discrimination from happening

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• So many brilliant young minds face barriers that prevent them from accessing advanced coursework, and
• This is in no way preventing other teachers who already hold that space to keep holding it, but when
• The truth is that agency fraud prevention we now have is good, but it is not nearly enough.
• Third, sanctions are a fundamental aspect of fraud, waste, and abuse prevention.
• a long way in stopping and preventing a long way in stopping and preventing that<02:06:09.440>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And that's why we had the Gun Violence Prevention Resource Center folks in.
• And that's why we had the Gun Violence Prevention Resource Center folks in.
• We heard gun violence prevention bills.
• We pass laws that are intended to prevent crimes from happening.
• They do substance abuse prevention programming for kids and families.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The House took up Senate File 3432, a public safety bill requiring identifying equipment and insignia to be removed from emergency vehicles sold to the public. The chamber first adopted a House language amendment, then debated a broader security package that would fund judicial and courthouse security, Capitol security measures, short-term protection for legislators facing credible threats, State Patrol deficiency funding, and additional BCA analysts and investigators to assess threats statewide. Supporters framed the bill as necessary to protect public safety, democracy, and First Amendment activity at the Capitol and courthouses; they also said the package was pared down from larger requests and based on security reviews. The House adopted an A-1 amendment clarifying that BCA staff could investigate threats statewide, and later rejected a Schultz A-3 amendment that would have eliminated all appropriations in the bill. The A-3 was defeated on a 37-94 vote after the House upheld the Speaker’s ruling that a proposed school-safety secondary amendment was not germane, with that appeal decided 69-62. A major theme of debate was whether the Legislature should prioritize security for members and the Capitol before passing school safety funding. Several members argued they could not support spending tens of millions on Capitol and legislative security without first funding school safety for all students, including public, charter, private, and tribal schools. Others defended the bill as necessary because of recent threats and violence, including the June 14 tragedy, and said the Capitol security changes were based on professional recommendations. Some members also criticized the new security setup as overly restrictive or “security theater,” while supporters said the measures were needed to keep the public, staff, and lawmakers safe. After the A-3 was defeated, the bill was read for third time and members continued floor debate. The discussion remained split between those emphasizing immediate Capitol and legislative security needs and those insisting school safety should come first. Representative Agbaje then moved to table the bill, and the clerk began a roll call on that motion.

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• the family court from making prevents the family court from making such<00:24:10.640> findings
• It is not going to help or prevent any actual crime.
• It is not going to help or prevent any actual crime.
• by the time they reach were preventable by the time they reach their<01:01:50.799> end<01:01:
• diseases that could have been prevented diseases that could have been prevented if<01:02:29.280>

Bills: HB1546

Keywords: Medicaid, health insurance, healthcare access, insurance subsidies, pilot program, affordable care, preventive services, low-income, community engagement, 910, house, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 2083, which would add homeless shelters to Hawaii’s drug-free/safe-zone protections. The City and County prosecutor’s office strongly supported the bill, saying service providers asked for the change because drug activity near shelters can undermine recovery efforts. The Office of the Public Defender opposed the measure, focusing on a possible notice problem because many shelters are not readily identifiable and the bill’s 750-foot distance requirement could be difficult to apply. The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii also opposed the bill, arguing it would expand criminalization of poverty and drug use and that drug-free zone laws are ineffective and disproportionately harmful. The prosecutor’s office said it would do more research on the notice concern. The committee then moved on without taking a vote in the transcript provided. The committee next discussed HB 2087, which would change the treatment of abuse of family or household member cases by ending the deferred-acceptance pilot and returning to the prior statute. The prosecutor’s office supported the bill, saying the pilot had not reduced backlog as intended and that domestic violence cases should remain petty misdemeanors without deferral. The Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Public Defender’s Office both opposed HB 2087, instead urging extension of the pilot for another five years so the legislature can better evaluate how deferred acceptance is working. They said deferrals can be a useful incentive for behavior change and that more data is needed before ending the program. Committee members questioned the prosecutor about why Hawaii should differ from other counties and whether repeat offenders could keep receiving deferrals; the prosecutor said the deferral is available only once and reiterated support for returning to the old statute. The committee then heard HB 2096 on aggravated circumstances in child protective proceedings. The family court and Attorney General’s Office supported the bill, saying current law limits aggravated-circumstances findings to the early return hearing, which can prevent findings in the most serious abuse cases when key evidence is not yet available. They said the bill would allow such findings later in the case and, with proposed amendments, would let the court consolidate aggravated-circumstances and termination-of-parental-rights hearings to reduce delay and appeals. The Libertarian Party of Hawaii opposed the measure, arguing it would expand state power in family matters and could worsen outcomes for parents and children. Committee questions focused on the amended language, including what “another court of competent jurisdiction” means and whether a charge alone would be enough; the judiciary responded that criminal courts are included, but a hearing and opportunity to defend would still be required. Finally, the committee took up HB 1959, another domestic violence measure. The Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Public Defender’s Office, the Crime Victim Compensation Commission, the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, and county prosecuting offices testified in support. Supporters said the bill would extend the pilot program while keeping deferred acceptance of guilty pleas in place, giving more time to evaluate whether the program is working and whether a more formal diversion model should be developed. The coalition also suggested technical fixes to ensure judiciary data reporting continues and that the deferred-acceptance statute is not inadvertently repealed. No vote or final action was taken in the transcript before the committee moved on to the next bill.

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• <00:13:34.160> the resolution mechanisms that prevent the resolution mechanisms that prevent
• <00:20:08.360> is prevention is down of prevention is prevention is down of prevention is
• I don't think there is anything specific that prevents that.
• And I know you don't want to prevent foreclosure.
• the Foreclosure you want to prevent the Foreclosure you want to prevent<01:24:32.440> that<01

Keywords: 1183, house

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• > administrations<04:21:03.040> from to prevent future administrations from to prevent
• HR1900, the Bank Failure Prevention Act, HR1900, the Bank Failure Prevention Act, which<04:22:29.279>
• mergers and prevented bank mergers that would have prevented bank failures.
• administration uh that uh prevented administration uh that uh prevented healthy<04:40:06.240>
• We want to prevent bank failures.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• That prevents individuals from recognizing that they are sick, prevents people from recognizing that
• As a result, preventable disability, education and job loss, and in the worst cases, homelessness and
• No more doing prevention programs only under BHSA.
• Prevention and early intervention are particularly critical to preventing crises, hospitalizations, and
• I'm the director of San Francisco Suicide Prevention, Felton Institute.

Keywords: 988, house, all

Summary: The hearing focused first on behavioral health, especially hard-to-treat serious mental illness through the lens of anosognosia, and the impact of potential federal Medi-Cal reductions under H.R. 1. A family member, Dawn Marie Anderson, described her son’s long cycle of psychosis, homelessness, arrests, jail-based stabilization, and repeated relapse when treatment ended, arguing that anosognosia is a symptom of illness rather than refusal of care. She and other witnesses urged more consistent, long-term treatment, family involvement, medication support, and stronger county and state coordination. County and provider representatives said the current system still relies too heavily on crisis response and leaves people with serious mental illness falling through gaps between managed care, county specialty care, housing, and justice systems. Testimony from the California Behavioral Health Association, Santa Barbara County Behavioral Health, and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association emphasized that people with anosognosia often cannot self-navigate care, making a “no wrong door” system essential. They said H.R. 1 could destabilize coverage and shift costs to counties, while existing private insurance coverage is inadequate for early psychosis and related services. Witnesses highlighted CalAIM, jail in-reach, assertive community treatment, mobile crisis, supportive housing, and LEAP-style family training as promising tools, but said counties still need more resources and that the state should strengthen both Medi-Cal and private insurance behavioral health coverage. A public commenter from Lake County said private insurers denied most claims, especially for unlicensed staff providing case management and mobile crisis services. The committee then heard an update on the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, including the virtual services platforms BrightLife Kids and Soluna and the CYBHI fee schedule program. DHCS reported strong growth in app registrations, coaching sessions, referrals, and positive user outcomes, and said the platforms are serving children and youth statewide, including many who had never previously accessed care. For the fee schedule, DHCS said 72% of school districts and 50 of 58 county offices of education are participating across six cohorts, with $9.6 million reimbursed to date and 41,556 students represented in claims. Members pressed the department on the program’s roughly $69.3 million administrative cost, the slow pace of reimbursement relative to the investment, and the late delivery of requested data. DHCS responded that many claims are still being submitted, most denials are correctable, and local implementation is still scaling up through technical assistance and capacity grants.

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• So the Senate plan fully funds Round 7 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program and
• Preventing homelessness for youth is critical to stop generational homelessness.
• Prevention saves costs and stabilizes communities. Good afternoon.
• Prevention saves costs and stabilizes communities.
• It's a cost-effective prevention strategy.

Summary: The subcommittee heard an extensive presentation on the administration’s housing reorganization proposal, which would centralize multifamily affordable housing finance under the new Housing Development and Finance Committee (HDFC) and align it with the Governor’s trailer bill language. Administration officials said the plan is intended to create a one-stop application and award process, reduce duplicative timelines and costs, and pair state subsidy with private activity bonds and federal tax credits more efficiently. They also described proposed changes to the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program, including shifting a larger share of funding toward housing-related awards while preserving a portion for sustainable communities investments. The Legislative Analyst’s Office generally supported the streamlining concept but recommended changes to the proposed bond set-aside timing and urged flexibility for integrated applications and future reporting on demand. Senators, especially Senator Cabaldon, raised concerns that the proposal could weaken the original climate-and-transportation purpose of the sustainable communities program and that the reorganization would be undercut by the lack of new housing production funding in the budget. The item was held open without a vote. The committee then received a report from the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee and the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee on federal and state housing tax credits. Staff explained that the federal H.R. 1 change lowering the bond-financing threshold from 50% to 25% greatly expanded the number of projects able to use the 4% federal tax credit, allowing California to fund many more projects and units. They also described the state low-income housing tax credit as an important gap-filling tool for projects that still need additional subsidy, and noted existing set-asides for rural, homeless, at-risk, and extremely low-income projects. Members discussed rehabilitation as well as new construction, and the item was informational only. Finally, the Civil Rights Department reported on the effects of federal civil rights policy changes and on three programs facing expiration: California vs. Hate, the Community Conflict Resolution Unit, and Investigations and Conciliation Enhancement. Director Kevin Kish said federal cuts and policy shifts have reduced support for fair housing and other civil rights functions, while CRD’s caseload has grown from about 8,700 open matters a year ago to more than 12,000, with a six-month wait for interviews despite overtime triage efforts. Senators expressed strong support for continuing the programs and concern about the broader federal rollback of civil rights enforcement. The department said it is using overtime, intake triage, and outreach partnerships to manage the workload and direct Californians to appropriate state, local, and nonprofit resources.

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• So, um, now that appropriation rider preventing the ATF from doing it is still in place.
• So um now that appropriation writer<00:27:39.919> preventing<00:27:40.400> the<00:27:40.559
• ATF<00:27:40.960> from<00:27:41.120> doing<00:27:41.279> it writer preventing
• the ATF from doing it writer preventing the ATF from doing it is<00:27:41.520> still<00:27:41.760
• protect the community, but at the same time that we protect the rights of individual citizens and prevent

Bills: HB0108, HB0039, HB0091, HB0070

Keywords: audit, transparency, government reporting, accountability, public access, firearm rights, restoration of rights, criminal justice, felony convictions, Wyoming law, artificial intelligence, social scoring, biometric data, privacy rights, government regulation, foreign censorship, digital innovation, constitutional rights, Wyoming GRANITE Act, extraterritorial laws

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• Um, so this prevents a as well.
• we're talking about uh preventing we're talking about uh preventing extortion<00:04:59.840> uh
• So you have a group of legal professionals who've been tasked with preventing piracy.
• They don't want any preventing piracy.
• <00:51:31.119> indirect suggest language to prevent indirect suggest language to prevent indirect

Bills: SF0052, SF0024

Keywords: wildlife management, environmental restoration, funding, invasive species, aquatic ecosystems, native fish, habitat conservation, lottery, debit card payments, gambling regulations, state revenue, financial transactions, 916, all

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• 00:02:17.599> the<00:02:17.840> house<00:02:18.080> fraud<00:02:18.400> prevention
• >> You serve on the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee.
• you're not taking the specific approach in your committee hearings to specifically target how you're preventing
• hearings to specifically target<00:02:48.239> how<00:02:48.480> you're<00:02:48.720> preventing
• <00:02:49.280> fraud target how you're preventing fraud target how you're preventing fraud

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: Representative Schultz reflected on the prior session as highly dynamic and unpredictable, but said it was productive because it allowed many viewpoints to be represented. He described the session as history-making and said he was able to advance priorities for his district and conservative constituents. He highlighted two main policy wins: a bill he said prevented illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer-funded health care benefits, identified as House File 10, and a bipartisan measure he called “freeing the hot tubs,” which allowed hot tubs at short-term rentals such as Airbnbs and VRBOs after prior Department of Health restrictions. He said both measures were enacted during the special session. Schultz also discussed his work on the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee, saying the committee was needed to focus on fraud in state agencies. He cited more than a billion dollars in fraud over the past six or seven years, including Feeding Our Future and issues in Medicaid-funded services, waiver services, and the housing stabilization program. He said the committee’s hearings and agency discussions helped produce tangible legislation to strengthen program integrity and protect taxpayer dollars. Looking ahead to 2026, he said his priorities would be affordability, stopping fraud, and improving school safety and learning environments across all types of schools in Minnesota.

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• While preventing the legislature from conducting its work.
• Works to prevent members from Uh, benefiting financially during corn break. I'm getting to that.
• They were the only ones that were preventing flood relief.
• They were the only ones that were preventing these inevitable maps to be passed.
• This prevents people from punishes them.

Bills: HB18

Keywords: HB 18, Texas Legislature, quorum break, quorum-busting, legislative walkout, absent legislators, political contributions, campaign finance, political expenditures, legislative caucus, specific-purpose committee, Texas Ethics Commission, civil penalty, show cause order, district court, Fifteenth Court of Appeals, session fundraising, travel lodging food expenses, legislative session, compelled attendance

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• Removal and prevention. Derelict vessels and Florida have been an issue for quite some time.
• So we'll talk more about some of the prevention measures that we've put in place that are working well
• We work closely with our local partners as a force multiplier to remove and prevent devi's statewide
• In an effort to prevent the occurrence of derelict vessels.
• The next to preventive measure that we've been able to stand up and put in place is or vessel turn in

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• illegal aliens hr30 the preventing illegal aliens hr30 the preventing violence<01:07:21.319>
• We have to do more to prevent these fires from starting.
• We have to do more to prevent these fires from starting.
• You're not going to prevent fire completely.
• Dawn went on to establish prevention Dawn went on to establish prevention programs<04:27:17.080>

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, January 16, 2025, 1012, house, all