WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa released the following testimony by Sam Brownback, former U.S. Ambassador at large for international religious freedom, from a Feb. 4, 2026, joint hearing with the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere entitled "Defending Religious Freedom Around the World": * * * An alliance of nations has emerged that see religious freedom as the greatest internal threat to their dictatorial control. Communist, authoritarian, and total  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa released the following testimony by Stephen F. Schneck, former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, from a Feb. 4, 2026, joint hearing with the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere entitled "Defending Religious Freedom Around the World": * * * Chairman Smith, Chairwoman Salazar, Ranking Member Jacobs, Ranking Member Castro, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittees. It is a privilege to b  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- The House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions released the following written testimony by David J. Walton, founder and co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Team at Fisher Phillips LLP, from a Feb. 3, 2026, hearing entitled "Building an AI-Ready America: Adopting AI at Work": * * * Executive Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged from experimental adoption to mission-critical infrastructure across American workplaces  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging released the following written testimony by John V. Gray, dean's distinguished professor of operations and business analytics in Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University, Columbus, from a Jan. 29, 2026, hearing entitled "Truth in Labeling: Americans Deserve to Know Where Their Drugs Come From": * * * Senator Scott, Ranking Member Gillibrand, and distinguished members of the committee. Thank you for this opportunity an  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa released the following testimony by Dana Stroul, Shelly and Michael Kassen senior fellow and director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, from a Feb. 3, 2026, hearing entitled "U.S. Policy Toward Lebanon: Obstacles to Dismantling Hezbollah's Grip on Power": * * * Chairman, Ranking Member, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify on this important top  more