WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The House Judiciary Committee released the following testimony by Alveda King, chair of the American Dream at the America First Policy Institute, from a June 9, 2026, hearing entitled "The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II": * * * Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for allowing me to testify today. I was born on January 22, 1951, not with a silver spoon in my mouth, but singing "Amazing Grace" and pledging allegiance to the flag of the United State more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses released the following written testimony by David J. Bier, chair in immigration policy at the Cato Institute, from a June 9, 2026, hearing entitled "Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy": * * * Chairman Gill, Ranking Member Simon, and distinguished members, thank you for the opportunity to testify before this task force on Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abus more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses released the following written testimony by Center for Immigration Studies Executive Director Mark Krikorian from a June 9, 2026, hearing entitled "Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy": * * * Thank you Mr. Chairman and members of the Task Force for the opportunity to speak to you today. Abuse of our immigration system is widespread. Criticism often focuses on fraud, and the more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection released the following written testimony by Corridor CEO and co-founder Jack Cable from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience": * * * Chairman Garbarino, Ranking Member Thompson, Chairman Ogles, and Ranking Member Ramirez, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Jack Cable. more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet released the following written testimony by Jamie Simpson, chief policy officer and counsel of the Council for Innovation Promotion, from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access": * * * Chairman Issa, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to submit this statement on biopharmaceutical patents and the role of intellectual p more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific released the following written testimony by Zongyuan 'Zoe' Liu, senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Beijing's Poison Pipeline: The CCP's Role in the Fentanyl Crisis." CCP is the Chinese Communist Party. * * * Executive Summary China did not cause America's fentanyl crisis. The crisis has domestic and regional roots: U.S. opioid demand, the legacy of over-prescription, gaps in treatment more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet released the following testimony by Krista Carver, partner at Covington and Burling LLP, from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access": * * * Chairman Issa, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Subcommittee, my name is Krista Carver, and I am a partner at Covington & Burling LLP. I have represented innovative biopharmaceutical companies on regulatory matters for al more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection released the following testimony by Matthew Guariglia, senior policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience": * * * As a Senior Policy Analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I thank the Chairs, Ranking Members, and Members of the Com more PR

HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas, June 19 -- The House Natural Resources Committee released the following testimony by Mike Ward, former deputy regional director for the Midwest Region of the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service, on behalf of the Coalition to Protect America's National Parks, Edwardsville, Illinois, from a June 12, 2026, field hearing on a discussion draft of the Great American Outdoors Act 250: * * * Chairman Westerman, Ranking Member Huffman and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify at thi more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses released the following written testimony by Matt O'Brien, deputy executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, from a June 9, 2026, hearing entitled "Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy": * * * Amnesty for illegal aliens simply encourages fraud and criminality. As any parent, school teacher or police officer knows, rewarding bad simply begets more bad more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet released the following written testimony by Rachel Goode, senior vice president and head of legal and intellectual property of Fresenius Kabi, from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access": * * * Chairman Issa, Ranking Member Johnson, and Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony on Medicines and IP: Ba more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection released the following testimony by Frontier Model Forum Executive Director Chris Meserole from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience": * * * Chairman Ogles, Ranking Member Ramirez, distinguished Members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity today to testify on "The AI Security La more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection released the following testimony by Sandra Joyce, vice president of Google Threat Intelligence Group, from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience": * * * Chairmen Garbarino, Ogles; Ranking Members Thompson, Ramirez; and Members of the Committee and Subcommittees: thank you for the opportunity t more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific released the following testimony by Steve Yates, senior research fellow for China and national security at the Heritage Foundation Asian Studies Center, from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Beijing's Poison Pipeline: The CCP's Role in the Fentanyl Crisis." CCP is the Chinese Communist Party. * * * My name is Steve Yates. I am senior research fellow for China and national security at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Judiciary Committee released the following testimony by Mary McCord, executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, and a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center, from a June 9, 2026, hearing entitled "The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II": * * * Distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. I am currently the Executive Director of the non-partisan Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses released the following written testimony by Chris Newman, legal director and general counsel at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, from a June 9, 2026, hearing entitled "Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy": * * * Chairman Comer, Ranking member Garcia, and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. I am Chris Newman, Legal Director and Gen more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific released the following testimony by David Luckey, director of the Rand Rural America Partnership, from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Beijing's Poison Pipeline: The CCP's Role in the Fentanyl Crisis." CCP is the Chinese Communist Party. * * * Chairwoman Kim, Ranking Member Bera, and distinguished members of the Committee and Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify before the Subcommittee on the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) role in the fen more PR

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet released the following written testimony by Rutgers University Professor Michael Carrier from a June 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access": * * * I. Introduction A. Drug prices too high; patients unable to afford needed medicines. Why? 1. Brand drug companies abuse system by delaying generic and biosimilar entry a) Examples: building and enforcing patent thickets, claimin more PR

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The House Judiciary Committee released the following written testimony by Bryan K. Fair, interim president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama, from a June 9, 2026, hearing entitled "The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II": * * * Good morning, Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Raskin, and Members of the Committee. Last July, I took a one-year leave from my university professorship to become the interim head of the Southern Poverty Law Center. So, my testimony today will b more PR