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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Sparks, there's a big issue along the border with the fuel depots where they are now... blending
Bills:
SB552 , SB1099 , SB1124 , SB1208 , SB1372 , SB1506 , SB1667 , SB1804 , SB1806 , SB1870 , SB1936 , SB1937 , SB2180 , SB2405 , SB2569 , SB2570 , SB1646
Committee:
Senate Criminal Justice
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nominations of Peter Hoekstra, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to Canada, George Glass, of Oregon, to be Ambassador to Japan, and Ronald Johnson, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the United Mexican States, all of the Department o Mar 13th, 2025 at 09:30 am
Foreign Relations Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I was encouraged by Japan's recent announcement that it intends to blend 10% ethanol in gasoline by 2030
Committee:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Keywords:
U.S. foreign policy, Mexico relations, Japan relations, border security, trade agreements, drug trafficking, ambassadorial nominations, intergovernmental communication
Summary:
The meeting of the committee focused on critical discussions concerning U.S. foreign policy, particularly relationships with Mexico and Japan. Notable attention was given to border security, trade agreements, and implications of drug trafficking. Ambassadorial nominees discussed their strategies to strengthen ties with these nations, emphasizing the importance of cooperation in addressing mutual challenges, particularly concerning security and trade. The committee engaged in extensive dialogue, highlighting the urgency of improving intergovernmental communications to deter drug trafficking and support democratic governance.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- annual shareholder meeting is coming up. that HB 15 would position Texas as a rival to Delaware by blending
Bills:
HB32 , HB15 , HB171 , HB421 , HB581 , HB644 , HB745 , HB349 , HB917 , HB204 , HB923 , HB15 , HB171 , HB204
Committee:
House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Keywords:
eviction, landlord rights, tenant rights, justice court, property law, court procedures, chemical dependency, court-ordered treatment, mental health, health care, treatment facility, juvenile justice, criminal justice reform, deep fake, digital impersonation, age verification, private cause of action, explicit content, consumer protection, HB 581
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Governor Tim Walz Media Availability 3/6/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- You got to figure out how those two things blend together, and in Minnesota we do a very good job of
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Feb 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- It all blends together. The last point I want to talk about just our industry partners.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Feb 5th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Or which have a blend of services provided by municipal or government agencies and which have zero.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Commerce and Tourism Feb 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And I just oia news, 4 fertilizer production as well as orange juice from Brazil for blending with the
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 03/02/26
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- help 88 retail fuel locations update their equipment to be compatible with unleaded 88 and higher blends
- /c><01:24:54.080><c> 88</c><01:24:54.560><c> and</c><01:24:54.719><c> higher</c><01:24:55.040><c> blends
- </c> with unled 88 and higher blends. with unled 88 and higher blends.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And we really did try to have a blend, you know, greater Minnesota and metro, online and in person, so
- And we really did try to have a blend<00:12:10.880><c> uh</c><00:12:11.279><c> you</c><00:12:11.360><
- c> know</c><00:12:11.519><c> greater</c><00:12:11.839><c> Minnesota</c><00:12:12.320><c> and</c> blend
- uh you know greater Minnesota and blend uh you know greater Minnesota and metro<00:12:13.360><c> uh<
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, December 4, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- California's taxes and regulations and insistence on special fuel blends have caused costs to go up inordinately
- insistence on taxes and regulations and insistence on special<02:46:06.720><c> fuel</c><02:46:07.040><c> blends
- have</c><02:46:08.640><c> caused</c><02:46:09.120><c> costs</c><02:46:09.439><c> to</c> special fuel blends
- have caused costs to special fuel blends have caused costs to go<02:46:09.760><c> up</c><02:46:10.160
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Audit Commission 11/4/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- constituency service legitimate activities relative to campaign activities, and sometimes they look like they blend
- /c><00:47:56.720><c> look</c><00:47:56.880><c> like</c><00:47:57.040><c> they</c><00:47:57.280><c> blend
- </c><00:47:57.599><c> but</c> sometimes they look like they blend but sometimes they look like they blend
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Public Pension Oversight Board (8-26-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- performance that not only was able to exceed their actuarial assumed rate of return, but also their blended
- c><00:04:52.720><c> their</c> rate of return, but also uh their rate of return, but also uh their blended
- </c><00:04:54.800><c> Um</c><00:04:55.120><c> so</c><00:04:55.360><c> that's</c> blended performance
- Um so that's blended performance index. Um so that's great<00:04:55.919><c> news.
Summary:
The meeting opened with a quorum call, the Pledge of Allegiance, a prayer, and approval of the prior meeting minutes. The first presentation was from Bo Craycraft of the Judicial Form Retirement System, who gave an update on investment performance, asset allocation, cash flow, and projected employer costs. He reported strong fiscal year 2025 investment results, with both the legislative and judicial retirement plans outperforming their actuarial assumed rates of return and benchmarks, driven largely by U.S. equity performance. He also noted the plans remained near their target asset allocation and continued to experience negative cash flow, though he said that was manageable in context of strong asset growth.
Craycraft then discussed a recent experience study and actuarial assumption changes, especially a revised salary growth assumption and a higher cash balance interest credit rate. He said these changes increased projected employer costs, with contributions rising from about $700,000 to a projected $2 million in later years, though he expected the eventual 2025 valuation and investment gains to reduce that estimate. Members asked about mortality assumptions, the impact of the experience study on liabilities, and the sharp increase in the judicial plan’s projected employer cost. Craycraft explained that the increase was driven mainly by the updated assumptions and that no other major plan changes were involved.
At the chair’s request, Craycraft also addressed the recent rise in Medicare Advantage premiums for the plan’s health coverage, saying the 2025 increase was largely tied to Part D changes and the Inflation Reduction Act and had been about 45%, but that future growth was expected to be under 5%. After his presentation, the committee moved to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority update, where the next speaker began by saying the funds had exceeded actuarial assumed returns for the fiscal year.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Health and Human Services Oversight Committee (05/16/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- So, how do you blend that and bring that together?
- So, how do you how do you<01:12:27.360><c> blend</c><01:12:27.600><c> that</c><01:12:27.760><c> and</
- </c> you blend that and bring that together? you blend that and bring that together?
Summary:
The committee met with DHS Chief Financial Officer Nathan White to receive an update on the department’s budget lapse and vacancy rates. White explained the difference between the “back-of-the-budget” reduction and lapse assumptions, saying DHS is facing a current biennium reduction of about $23 million and estimating roughly a $60 million general fund lapse in state fiscal year 2025, compared with about $13.5 million the prior year. He said DHS’s lapse is driven largely by program utilization, labor market conditions, contract spending, and statutory carry-forwards in areas such as Medicaid and developmental disabilities, which tend to produce a smaller lapse in the first year of the biennium and a larger one in the second year. He also noted that the House and Senate budgets differ on some operating items, including Medicaid rates, with the Senate having struck a House proposal to reduce rates by 3%.
Members questioned White about whether DHS ever spends down lapse money on last-minute purchases. He said the department does not engage in that practice, though it does retain some flexibility in its facilities budget for emergencies. He also described the process for transferring funds within and between class lines, including the need for fiscal committee approval above statutory thresholds, and gave examples such as moving funds to cover overtime in the SYSC budget and to ensure Medicaid payments for nursing facilities. White said such transfers are public and transparent and are reviewed by the governor and Executive Council.
The committee then discussed DHS staffing. White said the department has a little over 3,200 authorized positions, with a vacancy rate around 14.5%, and that a hiring freeze had been imposed a few months earlier while exempting direct care positions. He said DHS is planning for about a $30 million general fund reduction to personnel, equivalent to just under 400 positions, and is managing postings centrally to stay within budget by July 1. In response to questions about the loss of about $80 million in federal funds, White and Associate Commissioner Patricia Tilly said DHS avoided layoffs by shifting staff into vacant positions, but that the cuts affected community contracts, public health workers, laboratory work, and some IT/data projects. Tilly said roughly 20 positions were affected, most were reassigned, a few staff left voluntarily, and the department has less flexibility going forward if more federal funding ends.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 4/9/25
Children and Families Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- yes on this amendment just because this task force, I think, is really going to do a good job of blending
- yes on this amendment just because this task force, I think, is really going to do a good job of blending
- yes on this amendment just because this task force, I think, is really going to do a good job of blending
- yes on this amendment just because this task force, I think, is really going to do a good job of blending
Bills:
HF2436
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- As we get to the point like you've got a master policy, and maybe this is not this is some sort of blend
- maybe this is not this is some<01:35:03.320><c> sort</c><01:35:03.520><c> of</c><01:35:03.719><c> Blend
- > or</c><01:35:04.280><c> mix</c><01:35:04.679><c> between</c><01:35:05.440><c> a</c> some sort of Blend
- or mix between a some sort of Blend or mix between a business<01:35:06.040><c> entity</c><01:35:06.719
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (03/04/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- further you Mr chair I would like to further move<02:33:59.720><c> Amendment</c> This amendment to 773 blends
- incorporated into subsection Roman 3A, and it's also been changed from the... chair this amendment to 773 Blends
- chair this amendment to 773 Blends elements<02:34:34.800><c> that</c><02:34:34.960><c> were</c><02:34
- well-coordinated cooperative effort with Representative Luno to take the two parts of the bill and blend
Summary:
The executive session focused primarily on HB 563, which revises the school funding formula, especially the adequate education grant amounts for special education students and the treatment of fiscal capacity disparity aid. Representative Ladd moved OTPA on Amendment 06508, explaining that FY 26 would largely hold the current formula steady, while FY 27 would increase several per-pupil amounts, including base cost, free and reduced-price meals, English language learner aid, and special education differentiated aid. He said the special education change was based on estimated case loads across disability categories and that the amendment also reinstates fiscal capacity disparity aid, using a formula intended to better assist property-poor communities.
Several members supported the amendment as a step in the right direction, saying it better recognizes special education costs and separates property wealth from low-income student counts. Others raised concerns about the lack of time and the absence of a printed spreadsheet showing how the fiscal capacity disparity aid would affect each town. In response, sponsors said the spreadsheet existed, that the LBA had copies, and that the amendment would help about 40 target towns, while Manchester would be the main community receiving less under the new formula because of prior shifts in the extraordinary needs grant.
Discussion also covered the broader impact of the bill, with members noting that about 200 of the state’s 245 cities and towns would see an increase and 45 a decrease under the proposed FY 27 changes. Supporters argued the bill was a compromise given limited revenues and that it should move forward so it can be considered by the full House and then Finance. No final vote on the amendment or bill was taken in the portion provided, and the chair indicated the committee was still deciding whether it had enough information to proceed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 02/27/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- The 120-day period, I can kind of blend in to what we talked about earlier.
- I</c><01:51:41.880><c> can</c><01:51:42.360><c> kind</c><01:51:42.480><c> of</c><01:51:42.639><c> Blends
- </c> the 120-day period I can kind of Blends the 120-day period I can kind of Blends in<01:51:43.960>
Committee:
Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Our community is a blend of families that have been living in our community for generations, immigrants
- /c><01:02:39.119><c> community</c><01:02:39.520><c> is</c><01:02:39.640><c> a</c><01:02:39.799><c> blend
- </c><01:02:40.240><c> of</c> members our community is a blend of members our community is a blend of
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- a what predatory gambling truly is: it's taking a known dangerous and addictive product and then blending
- a what predatory gambling truly is: it's taking a known dangerous and addictive product and then blending
- a what predatory gambling truly is: it's taking a known dangerous and addictive product and then blending
- a what predatory gambling truly is: it's taking a known dangerous and addictive product and then blending
Committee:
Senate Finance
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
TRN Public Hearing - Tue Feb 3, 2026 @ 10:30AM HST
Transcript Highlights:
- There's a great injustice in the potential of requiring people to change out their diesel trucks or diesel
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on HB 1694, which would create a sustainable aviation fuel tax credit, and HB 1695, which would expand the state’s renewable fuels production tax credit. For HB 1694, supporters from the airlines, renewable fuels industry, business groups, and some environmental and youth representatives said sustainable aviation fuel is a practical near-term way to cut emissions in aviation, a hard-to-decarbonize sector, and argued the credit would send a market signal, support local production, and help meet state climate goals. Opponents, including Energy Justice Network and a taxpayer-focused testifier, argued the bill could subsidize expensive fuels that may not be truly clean, could duplicate benefits available under other tax provisions, and should not support transpacific aviation or technologies they said are unproven or harmful. The Department of Taxation stood on written testimony, and the chair later asked that all verbal testimony on remaining bills be limited to one minute because of time constraints.
HB 1695 drew similar support and opposition, but focused more broadly on renewable fuels for transportation, trucking, shipping, and other sectors. Supporters, including the Hawaii State Energy Office, airlines, PAR Hawaii, the Hawaii Renewable Fuels Coalition, Pacific Biodiesel, and the RNG Coalition, said the bill would help scale local fuel production, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, support jobs and agriculture, and advance the state’s climate and energy goals. Several supporters emphasized that the credit would help build a local industry and that life-cycle accounting should be used to measure emissions benefits. Opponents repeated concerns that some biofuels and waste-based fuels may not be climate-beneficial, may rely on flawed modeling, and could create costly infrastructure that would need to be replaced later. No votes or final committee action were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.