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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration Feb 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- There are redundancies, there is a lack of coordination, and I would— Wasteful spending?
- I mean, who better to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse, duplication, fragmentation, mission overlap
- We have implemented solid ID proofing mechanisms in our systems.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/25
Transportation Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- There's also a debt surcharge component to the gas tax that's dedicated to repaying debt from 2008.
- Once those bonds are repaid, that surcharge will actually go away over the next 15 years or so when that's
- She said she thinks it is an inefficient waste of money, or an inefficient use of money, when giving
Keywords:
Northern Lights Express, NLX, Minneapolis-Duluth rail, passenger rail, intercity passenger rail, high-speed rail, Duluth, Minneapolis, MnDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Metropolitan Council, transportation funding, rail appropriation, general fund, trunk highway fund, rail project cancellation, infrastructure spending, commercial driver training, CDL, financial assistance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 04/10/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- The e-waste. The e-waste exemption. Yeah. And what does the e-waste? that stuff? Not me personally.
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The <00:14:15.040>e-waste what? The e-waste. The e-waste what? - The e-waste. The e-waste exemption.<00:14:16.079>
The <00:14:16.240>e-waste. - The e-waste. Yeah. And what exemption. The e-waste. Yeah.
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in you're not dumping hazardous waste in you're not dumping hazardous waste
HI
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- We need to continue to work on sustainable solid waste management, so position for that. the cessful
- continue to work on sustainable Solid continue to work on sustainable Solid Waste<01:30:14.800><
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Summary:
The joint Ways and Means and Health and Human Services committees heard Hawaii Health Systems Corporation’s biennium budget request, with testimony from HHSC leadership on the Hilo/Big Island region (HTH 212) and the Oahu region (HTH 215), plus discussion of capital improvement projects and systemwide partnerships. HHSC described its role as the rural healthcare safety net, serving a high share of Medicare, Medicaid/Quest, and uninsured patients, and said its costs are elevated by state employee fringe benefits, which it said are about 64% compared with roughly 30% in the private sector. HHSC also said pandemic-era federal aid, including relief funds and PPP loans totaling about $100 million, reduced the need for general fund support in prior years.
For HTH 212, HHSC said its general fund request for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 was higher than the governor’s recommendation because of rising insurance, pharmaceutical, and contractor labor costs, and because it includes $13.2 million in FY 2026 and $2.3 million in FY 2027 for Epic electronic medical record implementation in East Hawaii. For HTH 215, HHSC said the requested general funds were aligned with the governor’s recommendation, in part because of increased Medicaid reimbursement rates for long-term care facilities under prior legislation. HHSC also said it was restoring a special fund ceiling so the region could spend its cash collections on operations.
Members asked about the 64% fringe rate, and HHSC explained the difference was mainly due to defined-benefit pension and retiree health insurance costs, which private hospitals generally do not bear at the same level. Members also asked about the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home, and HHSC said operations would be funded through the general fund corporation for the home when it opens, with management by Ohana Pacific, but no additional legislative operating funds were being requested at that time. Other questions focused on staffing and vacancies, including an abolished procurement position and an ongoing IT help desk recruitment need.
HHSC highlighted several capital and partnership projects, including a $25 million state CIP request matched by $25 million from the Benioff family for the Benioff Health Center, an ER expansion and reconfiguration at Corner Community Hospital, and $7.5 million in each fiscal year for Kauai EMR capital funds to join the Epic platform. Testimony also described collaborations with Queen’s, the University of California San Francisco, Hawaii Pacific Health, the Hawaii Cancer Consortium, the Department of Health, and the state hospital to improve specialty access, clinical trials, behavioral health, and patient placement across the system.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Health Services (10-22-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Medicaid waste. I would like to invite Medicaid waste.
- There are some requirements generally that if they know about fraud, if they know about waste, then they
- It is a total waste of taxpayer dollars, whether it's federal taxpayers or state taxpayer dollars.
- We fully support audits to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
- And that's why I put a half solid years.
Summary:
The committee first approved the minutes and then approved an agency amendment to a health and family services regulation. The amendment reversed a prior change so that neonatal ICU beds would remain subject to regular review rather than nonsubstantive review. The remaining administrative regulations were then reviewed without objection.
The main presentation was from State Auditor Allison Ball on a report finding $836 million in concurrent Medicaid capitation payments from 2019 through 2022, involving individuals enrolled in Kentucky and at least one other state. Ball said Kentucky relied on the PARIS system, which has limitations because it is updated quarterly and depends on voluntary state participation, while a better federal data source, T-MSIS, was not fully available to the state. She said the audit found weak internal controls, siloed processes, outdated guidance, and a low-priority attitude toward residency checks, all of which contributed to missed alerts and improper payments. She also said the report identified additional problems, including payments made after beneficiaries died and cases involving multiple states paying for the same person.
Ball recommended better access to federal data, stronger MCO contract provisions, and more active oversight by the Department for Medicaid Services and managed care organizations. She said the contracts reviewed did not provide a clear way to recoup the improper payments, though she and her counsel suggested possible equitable legal theories might be explored. Members expressed concern about the scale of the waste and the lack of contract enforcement, and asked whether any money could be recovered. Ball said the audit did not identify a clear contractual path to recoup the funds.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- These are a solid Republican and a solid Democrat through and through that both experienced the exact
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and <03:54:46.960>a <03:54:47.199>solid a a solid Republican and - a solid a a solid Republican and a solid Democrat<03:54:48.000>
through <03:54:48.239>and - We need a solid chain of custody of all ballots, including our uncast absentee ballots.
- We need a solid chain of were given.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- And if we're looking at this bill as a way to look at waste, fraud, and abuse, I would say that we need
- session right up until June 30th, so there will be more money in the kitty to spend so that we can waste
- So there will be more money in the kitty to spend so that we can waste more of the people. ...money in
- the kitty to spend so that we can waste more of the people's hard-earned dollars on nonsense.
- As we have seen up here time and again, we are very, very, very good at wasting our own time.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Resources, Recreation and Development (02/04/2026)
Resources, Recreation and Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Here in New Hampshire, we are seeing our landfills overflow with this plastic waste.
- And if overflow with this plastic waste.
- Um, and at the same time, we have the New Hampshire solid waste management plan, which hopes to cut waste
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waste we have the New Hampshire solid waste we have the New Hampshire solid - terms of waste disposal and human. terms of waste disposal and human.
Summary:
The committee first took up HB 163FN, dealing with requiring current, verifiable evidence of a species’ presence before land-use restrictions are imposed for habitat protection. Members discussed an amendment that had been worked on with agencies and stakeholder groups. Fish and Game testified that, while the amendment improved the bill, the agency still opposed it because of concerns about citizen science, how the proposal would apply to public versus private property, and how the transition to DES would work. Representative Darby argued the amendment was ambiguous, lacked a full hearing, and did not clearly address record verification or private-property access issues. The amendment passed 8-7, and the committee then voted OTPA 8-7, with a minority report noted.
The committee then moved to HB 1752FN, which would create a chain of custody for timber and carbon credits. Representative Davis presented an amendment saying it would help law enforcement investigate timber theft and add transparency to New Hampshire’s carbon registry by identifying buyers of carbon credits. Supporters said the change would impose little burden and align with practices in other states. Opponents, including Representative Darby, Representative Vale, and the state forester from DNCR, said the carbon market is complex, the amendment was not fully vetted, and a hearing with all stakeholders was needed; they also raised fiscal-note concerns. The amendment passed 8-7, and the committee then voted OTPA 8-7, again with a minority report.
Finally, the committee opened a hearing on HB 1019, which would add an active water treatment professional to the state water well board. Representative Peter Petrino and Representative Wendy Thomas said the board should include expertise on contamination risks and treatment technologies, citing concerns about arsenic, radon, and PFAS in private wells. The chairman of the Water Well Board testified in opposition to the bill as drafted, saying the board supports the general idea of licensing water filtration work but does not currently have authority or rules to oversee that field and believes the proposal would put “the cart before the horse.” Members questioned whether the board’s current mandate even covers filtration systems, and the discussion ended with those concerns unresolved.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- And then at the facility itself in Franklin uh we have upgrades needed for solids handling uh thickeners
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Uh it's it's it's more like waste water. - Uh it's it's it's more like waste water.
- handling uh thickeners and solids handling uh thickeners and electrical<01:22:30.719>
uh <01:22 - We went out to bid almost two years ago, a year and a half ago, and the one solid response we received
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, February 2, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Over the last two years, my committee has uncovered disastrous wait times, fraud, waste, and abuse in
- There remains continued fraud, waste, and abuse in the VR&E program, and the return on investment for
- OR CEO'S TIME TO PREPARE FOR A REQUIRED SURVEY TO ENSURE THERE IS NO FRAUD, WASTE OR ABUSE AT THE GI
- The state's effort to aid the homeless is also riddled with waste and fraud.
- The state's effort to aid the homeless is also riddled with waste and fraud.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- So the impurities are taken out of the system as a solid form.
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a um taken out of the system as a in a um taken out of the system as a in a solid - Um and they absolutely can solid form.
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isn't <01:22:55.360>going <01:22:55.679>towards <01:22:56.080>wasteful - money isn't going towards wasteful money isn't going towards wasteful spending.<01:22:57.679>
Keywords:
climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, financing, sustainability, environmental policy, renewable energy, Minnesota Climate Innovation Financing Authority, earned incentive release credit, release credits, supervised release, corrections, Minnesota Department of Corrections, sentence reduction, good time, prison time, incarceration, violent offenses, murder, criminal sexual conduct, sex offenses
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (04/22/2025)
Election Law and Municipal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- public water and sewer, stormwater, public roads, municipal offices, public schools, public safety, solid
- waste, public libraries, and recreation.
- offices, public schools,<00:49:37.200>
public <00:49:37.520>safety, <00:49:38.480>solid - <00:49:38.800>
waste, schools, public safety, solid waste, schools, public safety, solid waste
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- we're having a conversation around what we can do as a committee and as a legislative body uh to limit waste
- body<00:03:09.920>
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Fraud legislative body uh to limit waste Fraud legislative body uh to limit - waste Fraud and<00:03:11.280>
Abuse <00:03:11.560>and <00:03:11.680>to <00:03:11.920 - The actual numbers are represented in a solid line, and the forecasted numbers are represented with a
Summary:
The committee convened for an opening discussion of the 2025 Human Services session, with members emphasizing bipartisan collaboration, the committee’s mission to strengthen support systems for Minnesotans, and a focus on helping vulnerable people thrive. The chair and members welcomed new and returning senators and staff, including new pages and interim committee administration, and several members briefly introduced themselves and their backgrounds in public service and human services work.
Members identified the main issues they expect to address this session: workforce shortages in human services professions, long-term care, program integrity, and efforts to limit waste, fraud, and abuse so funding reaches people who need it most. The chair also previewed upcoming hearings on eligibility and redeterminations for people with disabilities, MnCHOICES reassessments, assisted living and provider payment delays, and updates on direct care and treatment, noting that more detailed discussion would come in later meetings.
The committee then received a budget overview from fiscal analyst Kyle Raymond. He explained the combined Health and Human Services budget area, noted jurisdiction changes tied to the creation of the Department of Children, Youth, and Families and the planned separation of Direct Care and Treatment, and said some figures may differ from the November forecast because of those shifts. He outlined the major funding sources for the budget area, including federal funds and the general fund, and said the presentation would focus on the fiscal year 2026-2027 budget the legislature will be considering.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 04/03/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, but uh the e-waste. I want to also mention the e-waste and battery product stewardship.
- Chair, but uh the e-waste. I want to also mention the e-waste and battery product stewardship.
- program, this time for electronic waste program, this time for electronic waste is<00:08:28.319>
- <00:20:50.159>
Uh <00:20:50.480>but electronics waste and batteries. - Uh but electronics waste and batteries.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Having a project manager at the start will ensure a solid estimate of the cost.
- And as a solid estimate of the cost.
- What a giant waste of taxpayer money.
- giant waste of taxpayer money. giant waste of taxpayer money.
- or be fiscally irresponsible and waste or be fiscally irresponsible and waste taxpayer<04:25:02.479
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Warren Stephens, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Thomas Barrack, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, Tilman Fertitta, of Apr 9th, 2025 at 08:30 am
Foreign Relations Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Mindful of our imperative to efficiently deploy and never to waste taxpayer dollars, the department must
- So Radio Marti, I was a missionary in Honduras, Radio Marti transmits pro-democracy and good solid information
Keywords:
Senator Flinstone, HB22, SB4, amendments, public testimony, legislation, environmental impact, economic implications
Summary:
The meeting featured a thorough examination of various bills, including substantial discussions on HB22 and SB4. Key points included amendments proposed by committee members, particularly from Senator Flinstone, who emphasized the need for clarifications on certain provisions. The committee actively engaged with several witnesses providing public testimony, some in favor of the proposed legislation while others highlighted concerns and potential implications. The discussions were vibrant, showcasing different perspectives, especially on the environmental and economic impacts of the bills in question. The meeting concluded with a consensus to reconvene after a recess to further address the outstanding issues related to the bills.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Next unit appears on page 67, Unit 601, Solid and Hazardous Waste. >> Are there any amendments?
- Uh, page 64, Solid and Hazardous Waste Division. Mr.
- Uh, on page 116, unit 503, radioactive waste. >> All right. Are there any amendments to unit 503?
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radioactive on page 116, unit 503, radioactive on page 116, unit 503, radioactive waste - . waste. waste.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 04/14/26
Health and Human Services
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- Um, I suggest that we repurpose the surcharge and dip into the till, uh, as a statewide value, uh, to
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we <00:56:59.720>repurpose <00:57:00.240>the <00:57:00.360>surcharge - suggest that we repurpose the surcharge suggest that we repurpose the surcharge um<00:57:02.040>
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Mar 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- You know that they were kind of wasteful spending in a way that has proposed been proposed during this
- It also adjusts the fee percentages for the telecom surcharge and the PRC inspection fees to pay for
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Werner, a police officer from New Jersey, bought two Texas lottery tickets for face value plus a surcharge
Keywords:
business liability, concealed carry, handgun policy, premises liability, criminal acts, civil liability, business premises, concealed handgun, property liability, property rights, gun regulations, criminal liability, protective order, confidentiality, personal information, court records, victim protection, charitable raffle, nonprofit, wildlife conservation