Hill Heat

Full committee hearing.

• H.R. 7567

• Text

• Section-by-section

• Amendment to add agricultural cooperatives with less than 2,500 employees as qualified entities under the Renewable Energy for America Program

03/03/2026 at 05:00PM

U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness, will convene a hearing titled “Less Hype, More Help: AI That Improves Safety, Productivity, and Care.” The hearing will examine how artificial intelligence — a technology as transformative as the internet — can improve Americans’ quality of life, create jobs, and drive economic growth.

Witnesses:

• Demetri Giannikopoulos, Chief Innovation Officer, Rad AI
• Brittany Ng, Vice President, Siemens Digital Industries Software
• Dr. Damion Shelton, Co-Founder and Chairman, Agility Robotics
• Mark Muro, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution

03/03/2026 at 10:15AM

U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries, will convene a subcommittee field hearing titled “Arctic Security Infrastructure Imperative: Aligning U.S. Maritime Investments with National Security Needs” in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday, February 28, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. AKST.

Witnesses:

• Randy “Church” Kee, Director, Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies
• Mike Sfraga, Interim Chancellor of University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Former U.S. Arctic Ambassador and Former Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission
• General Joe Ralston, USAF (ret.), Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Former Commander, U.S. European Command; and Former Commander, U.S. Alaska Command
• Joy Baker, Port Director, City of Nome, Alaska
• Steve White, Executive Director, The Marine Exchange of Alaska

02/28/2026 at 03:00PM

Stop the Money Pipeline in partnership with Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Third Act, and LittleSis just produced a groundbreaking report, titled “Better Options: how large companies and nonprofits can select climate-aligned credit card partners”

Retailers, like Costco, have co-branded credit cards with the largest funders of fossil fuels in the world: Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

But, we discovered: there are better options.

Out of the 20 largest credit card issuers in the United States, eight financial institutions have not provided any funding to the fossil fuel industry since 2021.

Come to this call to learn more about the key findings and how you can help stop fossil fuel expansion.

If you and thousands of your fellow consumers pressure Costco and other retailers to partner with better, greener credit card companies, both retailers, and subsequently banks, will be forced to act.

Save your spot now so you can learn how to plug in.

02/26/2026 at 08:00PM

On Wednesday, February 25, at 10:00 a.m., U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, will hold a hearing to examine the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2026 and other ongoing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) projects, programs and priorities.

Witnesses:

• Adam R. Telle, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Department of the Army
• Lieutenant General William H. Graham Jr., Chief of Engineers and Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army

02/25/2026 at 10:00AM

Full committee hearing

Nominees:

• Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management, vice Tracy Stone-Manning, resigned.
• Kyle Haustveit, of North Dakota, to be Under Secretary of Energy for Infrastructure, vice Preston Wells Griffith, resigned.
• David LaCerte, of Louisiana, to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a term expiring June 30, 2031. (Reappointment)

Throughout his 14-year career in Congress and later as the chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico, Pearce opposed public ownership of lands and advocated for selling off the very resources the BLM was created to steward. While in Congress, Pearce sponsored legislation that directed the U.S. Forest Service and BLM to sell public lands to either state governments or private buyers. In a 2012 speech, he explicitly stated he wanted a future president to “reverse this trend of public ownership of lands.”

Pearce’s disdain for our public lands extends to the agencies that manage them. As a member of Congress, he encouraged county governments in his district to violate federal laws on Forest Service lands inside their borders. After leaving Congress, as chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico, Pearce unsuccessfully lobbied the Interior Department to drastically shrink the size of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, despite it being an economic boon to Doña Ana County.

Haustveit, a former petroleum engineer, is assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy. Throughout his career at Devon Energy, Haustveit led teams that pioneered diagnostic techniques now used worldwide to improve hydraulic fracturing and resource development. He later directed Devon Energy’s Energy Ventures team, driving investments in emerging technologies such as geothermal, carbon utilization, lithium extraction, and produced water treatment.

LaCerte is a Project 2025 contributor who worked for the Trump White House in the Office of Personnel Management before confirmation to FERC on a party-line vote in October 2025.

02/25/2026 at 09:30AM

Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address of his second term.

02/24/2026 at 09:00PM

At the State of the Union (SOTU), Republicans in Congress are once again bending the knee to Trump and hanging their constituents out to dry. Nobody should participate in Trump’s vanity project, and that’s why Democratic leaders, MoveOn members, and everyday Americans most impacted by Trump’s chaos are coming together for the People’s State of the Union.

President Trump has spent the first year of his administration making lives worse for Americans: slashing health care, sending masked ICE agents to murder our neighbors, and passing tax cuts for the Epstein class. We cannot give Trump the attention he wants, or validate his lies to the American people. We cannot treat this SOTU like business as usual.

Join MeidasTouch and MoveOn as we present the People’s State of the Union alongside elected officials, partners, allies and directly impacted Americans.

In person at 3rd St. between Jefferson and Madison on the National Mall or livestream.

Speakers:

• Katie Bethell
• Katie Phang, Joy Reid
• Reverend Paul Brandeis Raushenbush
• Sen. Chris Murphy, Fereshteh Ganjavi
• Rep. Summer Lee
• Sen. Ruben Gallego
• Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Jenna Norton
• Rep. Greg Casar, Jill Kordick
• Rep. Robert Garcia, Kelley Robinson
• Sen. Jeff Merkley, Nafisa Fai
• Sen. Tina Smith, Brenda Lewis
• Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Nedia Morsy
• Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove
• Sen. Ed Markey, Gladys Vega
• Rep. Becca Balint, Mohsen Mahdawi
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Lauren Hersh
• Sen. Adam Schiff
• Rep. Delia Ramirez
• Rep. Maxwell Frost, Alice Goldberg
• Rep. Jim Himes, Madalyn Beckett
• Rep. Yassamin Ansari, Sonia Almarez
• Rep. Emily Randall, Sharlene Rochard
• Rep. Chellie Pingree, Jenny Beverly
• Rep. John Larson, Moises Ricardo, Marlon Ricardo Camejo
• Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, Dr. Troy Jacobs
• Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, Carmen Pacheco-Munoz
• Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Alejandra Esquivel
• Keya Chatterjee
• Becky Pringle
• Katie Bethell

Additional Partners:

• American Federation of Teachers
• Americans for Tax Fairness
• Center for Popular Democracy
• Climate Power
• Common Defense
• Economic Security Project Action
• Families Over Billionaires
• FWD.us
• Free DC
• Human Rights Campaign
• Indivisible
• Interfaith Alliance
• National Education Association
• Ohio Progressive Action Leaders
• Our Revolution
• People Power United
• Protect Our Care
• Public Citizen
• Social Security Works
• The Tuesday Group
• Vera Action
• Voto Latino
• Win Without War

02/24/2026 at 08:00PM

The purpose of the subcommittee hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills:

Legislation:

• S. 1034, Southwestern Power Administration Fund Establishment Act
• S. 1242, Watershed Results Act
• S. 2437, Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
• S. 2753, Urban Canal Modernization Act
• S. 3409, Lower Yellowstone River Native Fish Conservation Act
• S. 3500, Hydropower Licensing Transparency Act
• S. 3518, FLOWS Act
• S. 3635, Fort Peck Water System Reauthorization Act
• S. 3684, Water Power Research and Development Reauthorization Act
• S. 3693, Large-Scale Water Recycling Reauthorization Act
• S. 3723, A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water from the Missouri River to the Western Dakota Regional Water System, and for other purposes.
• S. 3725, A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water to expand the capacity and reach of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, Inc. (doing business as “Lewis & Clark Regional Water System”), in the States of Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota.
• S. 3732, A bill to amend the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act to authorize assistance under the storage program, and for other purposes.
• S. 3736, A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water to the Dakota Mainstem Regional Water System service area in the States of South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, and for other purposes.
• S. 3737, A bill to amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to provide financial and technical assistance to eligible entities for the conduct of innovative approaches to voluntary water partnership agreements among multiple water users and projects conducted by individual agricultural entities, and for other purposes.
• S. 3738, A bill to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to reauthorize the large-scale water recycling and reuse program, to establish a Water Conveyance Improvement Program, and for other purposes.
• S. 3743, A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a feasibility study on a selective water withdrawal system at Glen Canyon Dam, and for other purposes.
• S. 3792, A bill to provide for the establishment of a Water Project Navigators Program, and for other purposes.

02/24/2026 at 10:30AM

On Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 10:30 a.m., in room 1334 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:

• H.R. 1501 (Rep. Shreve), “Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025”
• H.R. 2969 (Rep. Wittman), “Finding Opportunities for Resource Exploration Act” or the “Finding ORE Act”
• H.R. 4781 (Rep. Barr), “Rare Earth Solutions and Carbon Utilization Enhancement Act of 2025” or the “RESCUE Act of 2025”
• H.R. 5929 (Rep. Barr), “Critical Minerals Supply Chain Resiliency Act”
• H.R. 7126 (Rep. Wittman), “Securing Essential and Critical U.S. Resources and Elements Minerals Act of 2026” or the “SECURE Minerals Act of 2026”
• H.R. 7458 (Rep. Hageman), “Domestic Opportunities for Resource Exploration Act” or the “Domestic ORE Act”

Hearing memo

Witnesses:

• Mark Compton, Executive Director, American Exploration & Mining Association, Spokane Valley, WA
• Sean Pi, Founding Partner, Heeney Capital, West Palm Beach, FL
• Adam Johnson, CEO, Principal Minerals, Southlake, TX
• Chelsea Hodgkins, Senior Auto Supply Chains Policy Advocate, Public Citizen, Washington, D.C. [Minority Witness]

H.R. 1501, the Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025, amends the FAST Act to formally include mining projects within the federal expedited permitting process. It further prohibits the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council from implementing 2023 regulations that would have restricted which mining projects qualify for these accelerated, “fast-track” reviews.

H.R. 2969, the Finding ORE Act, is bipartisan legislation that allows the U.S. government to send geologists and technology to other countries to help them find buried mineral deposits, provided those countries give U.S. companies first dibs on mining them.

H.R. 4781, the RESCUE Act of 2025, grants “fast-track” status to projects that extract or process minerals from toxic waste sources, specifically acid mine drainage, mine tailings, and coal byproducts.

H.R. 5929 empowers the President to fast-track mining projects by legally linking a Presidential Determination under the Defense Production Act to the federal permitting process. After such a designation, the bill compels federal agencies to adopt a synchronized, accelerated schedule for environmental and land-use reviews under the FAST-41 system.

H.R. 7126, the bipartisan SECURE Minerals Act of 2025, would establish a $2.5 billion government-owned corporation, the Strategic Resilience Reserve Corporation, to increase the domestic supply of raw materials for technology through investments in private mining and processing projects, including ownership stakes, loans, and purchase guarantees.

H.R. 7458 accelerates the U.S. mining permit process by imposing strict, short deadlines for environmental reviews and making approval the default if agencies fail to meet them. The bill limits long-term scientific analysis, narrows the scope of environmental impact studies, and drastically reduces the timeframe for public legal challenges to mining projects.

02/24/2026 at 10:30AM