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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
0:43
Jennifer Springman
“agencies are talking a lot more now than they used to, but one gap is that there isn't a single government-wide system where all of the documents are being housed. So, for example, if someone discloses information to NASA, an NSF program officer doesn't have the ability to see that automatically unless they reach out to NASA to ask it.”House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight (Begich): Safeguarding Federal Research Funds · Jun 24, 2026
0:51
Keith McCormick
“Last fiscal year, the Department of Justice recovered $6.8 billion through False Claims Act settlements and judgments, marking the highest single-year total in the law's 160-year history. Nearly 1,300 of those cases were brought not by the government authorities, or the auditors, but by whistleblowers who came forward on their own, accounting for more than $5.3 billion of that recovery.”House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight (Begich): Safeguarding Federal Research Funds · Jun 24, 2026
0:14
Nick Begich
“DOJ recovered over $52 million across 9 cybersecurity False Claims Act settlements in fiscal year 2025. How many of those cases originated from whistleblowers versus proactive government audits?”House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight (Begich): Safeguarding Federal Research Funds · Jun 24, 2026
0:29
Eileen O'Mara
“A few years ago, one of our bank partners decided to step back from processing. Now, that made a really good rational business decision for them, but the result was that millions of American businesses faced potential disruption.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:37
David Portilla
“The recurring difficulty across chartering, payments licensing, and access to Federal Reserve services is the same. A framework organized around a bundled conception of banking has not fully adapted to a world in which the core banking functions have become increasingly unbundled. The remedy should not be to force new business models into ill-fitting categories.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:25
Eileen O'Mara
“We support bipartisan efforts like the PACE Act because it enables companies focused on payments to access FedRails directly, subject to appropriate rigorous regulation, so we can build a more resilient, innovative system for American businesses.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:33
Eileen O'Mara
“we are regulated to the highest standards in the EU under the Central Bank of Ireland, under the FCA in the UK, and are very familiar how to operate in a regulated payment way, and obviously to huge success. With that, we saw no degradation on banking business in those jurisdictions as we operated under those, um, those regulated entities.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:37
David Portilla
“because there is no federal payments charter, there is no federal preemption for payment activity conducted outside of a national bank charter. Thus, a non-bank payments firm must instead navigate a patchwork of state licensing requirements.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:24
Paige Paridon
“Institutions seeking novel charters seek access to the Federal Reserve payment infrastructure and the implicit imprimatur of federal oversight without accepting the full scope of those obligations. That is not a formula for innovation. It is a formula for regulatory arbitrage and for the gradual erosion of the safety and soundness standards that protect the American public.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:33
Eileen O'Mara
“typically it is what we call like T+3, 3 business days. Now, we're coming up to a holiday next week. I will be in on data work calls that will say, I leave me, uh, when will the money hit my account when there is a public holiday next Friday? I need to make payroll”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
1:01
David Portilla
“after the enactment of the Genius Act, the amount of institutional interest in forming and supporting and investing in permitted payment stablecoin issuers was remarkable. And in my mind, what that shows is the power of having purpose-fit legislation to foster investment and innovation. And so I think if there were to be further development in federal payments licensing and chartering, I think you would see similar interest from companies that were created in the United States and also are entering the United States from outside the United States.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:41
Eileen O'Mara
“What we've seen in other jurisdictions like the EU and the UK that have already obviously implemented direct access, is a wave of innovation that's happened on the back of that. And I think, you know, if we were to move forward with something like the PACE Act, we would very quickly see, you know, innovative solutions and companies that want to build and serve the American people with solutions that are difficult to do today.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:53
Eileen O'Mara
“it's incomprehensible that United States is the only G7 country without the faster payments regulation. So if we do not act now and take steps to pass this legislation like my PACE Act, we are at risk of falling behind at the cost of our working families and small businesses.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
1:10
David Portilla
“there is no federal preemption for payments outside of the National Bank Charter. And so right now when a firm that's focused on payments activity would like to operate nationally, their options are to operate under a multistate framework that is not fully interoperable or to apply for a national bank charter that is not really fit for purpose.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:25
Eileen O'Mara
“The US has FedNow, but it lacks a product layer on top. Exactly what payment companies like Stripe would build with the direct access that could drive significant adoption. Beyond missed opportunities for innovation, the current system also creates dependency risk.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:44
Paige Paridon
“it could potentially fundamentally shift deposits from insured institutions to uninsured institutions. The Fed itself has acknowledged that the institutions most likely to seek payment— a payment account are going to be uninsured institutions.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:21
Eileen O'Mara
“The current regulation provides for companies that you're a bank or you're not a bank. What we're asking for is a payment charter that supports companies like Stripe to serve American businesses that are building on us and serving their communities. The skinny charter does not solve for this because it does not give us direct access to ACH.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
1:27
Paige Paridon
“we have encouraged— we would encourage the Fed to proceed slowly if it does, in fact, move to implement the payment account as it has proposed and to study this question of whether it would hasten a shift from insured depository institutions to uninsured and what the implications would be for that”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:43
Paige Paridon
“the payment account proposal represents a fundamental shift in policy that could accelerate deposit migration to uninsured institutions and introduce new risks into the financial system. For example, uninsured institutions are more susceptible to runs, especially during times of stress.”House Financial Services: Future of Payments · Jun 24, 2026
0:25
Mark Hall
“I'm right across the street from where all this is supposed to happen. I'm kind of glad they're pulling this, but I would love to not have to come down to one of these things again for townhouses coming down in nice little area where we got single-family dwellings.”Kenai: 6/24/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Jun 24, 2026
0:27
Mark Hall
“when we start getting townhouses built in here with families that don't have any vested interest in where they're living at, things are going to be problems. We're going to have— it's a dead-end road right now. The traffic would be tremendous on that thing.”Kenai: 6/24/2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Jun 24, 2026
0:20
Trevor Storrs
“by getting rid of those, it leaves at least $500,000 for, uh, doing some, uh, pilot or capital projects.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
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Trevor Storrs
“the baseline facts is we're working off of $5.2 million. That's what they're predicting. Fingers crossed that it's that and not lower.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:46
Trevor Storrs
“I think we're in a much better position if a couple of things happen. One, if we try to develop certain partnerships like that, and I don't know what other one there could be, but to show both the mayor and the assembly, like, we're not just looking to you, we are also strategizing. And the other component is setting up that there's some strong data that shows why this— why we need to separate these dollars and go back to the school.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:44
Trevor Storrs
“we're constrained with 5.2 with this extra burden placed upon us that never existed when we were first creating and implementing programs.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
1:03
Trevor Storrs
“if we just right now, if we got rid of the money for Best Beginnings and ASD back, and let me rephrase, that sounded wrong. We can move ASD and Best Beginnings back over to another funding source That is a savings of over $2 million, and we could still do operation capital and everything else that we have done.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:23
Trevor Storrs
“I was quite frank and straight with her going, we kind of need to not know in September. Like, what is your intentions? Like, I don't want us to go through all of this work and then them blow it up. Like, are you gonna get behind this and looking at alcohol? So I'm gonna follow back up also with her and try to have a more concrete conversation.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:34
Trevor Storrs
“I want both Best Beginnings and ASD back over in the alcohol tax. That is my goal.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:59
Trevor Storrs
“when we got and worked for this $5 million, this fund was never to move those things over. I also recognize the city is challenged with other dollars, but, uh, again, it was to make $7 million and not just a $5 million.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:43
Jessica Simonsen
“The idea of reopening the conversation of ASD going back to alcohol or entertaining the idea of bringing it to the assembly of maybe 50/50, or I mean, I think the, the fact that it's supposed to be in alcohol tax is hugely detrimental to the ACE Fund, right? Detrimental in whichever way you want to kind of look at it. Hugely beneficial to the community and hurting the $5 million, right?”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:29
Trevor Storrs
“ASD and Best Beginning funds may or may not, but we're going to base it off that we have those in our budget.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:34
Trevor Storrs
“operational was $2.4 million. Early Educated Childcare Subsidies It is now $1.625 million, and the reason is because we voted in moving $125 million over to the capital and pilot projects because of the mathematical error. So nobody was harmed. ASD is at $2 million. Pilot capital projects is $1.25 million.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:33
Trevor Storrs
“They estimate that it's about $37 per child per year. So the $125,000 supports just under 3,400 Anchorage-based kids. They serve actually just over 6,000 kids, so our funds cover about 56% of, of their project.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
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Trevor Storrs
“Just to remind folks, we— this used to be, again, also by the alcohol tax. It came over— this came over by an assembly member, and we had to adjust the budget.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
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Trevor Storrs
“we were un— unbeknownst to us, they actually lost funding and that this was even being looked at, and then Assembly member moved it and the Assembly supported it.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:15
Trevor Storrs
“We do not have enough funds to do what we want to do.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:21
Jessica Simonsen
“Who knew spending $5 million was so difficult, right? I think back to our, you know, first conversations as a board is it's a drop in the bucket, right? Yeah, it seems like a lot of money until it's not.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:30
Trevor Storrs
“what we're already planning is, is over the summer is to actually meet with all the assembly members and talk about the budget and specifically talk about the alcohol tax and the changes and how it's being detrimental to the fund and to the overall purpose of how this fund was created.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
0:43
Nick Begich
“I'm pleased today to be able to welcome the Deputy Administrator of the EPA, Mr. Fatui.”RDC Annual Membership Luncheon 2026 · Jun 24, 2026
0:59
Lisa Murkowski
“the window isn't open forever, and I hate to, I hate to go from high to just kind of the tempering with realism, but we know that the pendulum always swings, so we've got to do everything that we can to complete favorable rulemakings, to get the federal permits that we need, to beat back the inevitable lawsuits that come our way, and really get things moving into construction.”RDC Annual Membership Luncheon 2026 · Jun 24, 2026
0:31
Nick Begich
“Thank you for being here with us. Thank you for your emerging partnership with Alaska and making sure that we can make the resources of our great state available to the people of this great nation. And we know that the EPA is a partner in responsible development”RDC Annual Membership Luncheon 2026 · Jun 24, 2026
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Kelly Allen
“we're standing here with a bunch of wood chips that were donated by Foremost Construction, Fonoff Construction, Assemblymember Sumner, and Assemblymember Fonoff.”Mat-Su Borough: Alantra Disc Golf Course Gets Improved Wood Chips Donated · Jun 24, 2026
0:18
Kelly Allen
“we've got several members from from the Mattoxu Disc Golf Association out here spreading these out around tee pads and the trails to help clear up all the muddy areas, 'cause we've got quite a few people that come and frequent the course outside of our club. We're just trying to clean it up and make it more presentable for the community.”Mat-Su Borough: Alantra Disc Golf Course Gets Improved Wood Chips Donated · Jun 24, 2026
0:18
Kelly Allen
“the course itself has been being used more and more every year.”Mat-Su Borough: Alantra Disc Golf Course Gets Improved Wood Chips Donated · Jun 24, 2026
0:19
Speaker B
“Mr. Martinez has broken that trust, both in his actions by inappropriate using of funds and by how he communicated, by lying under oath.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - June 23, 2026 - 2026-06-23 17:00:00 · Jun 23, 2026
0:11
Kelly Allen
“They get free discs, they run through a tournament-type setting. It's, it's fun for everybody, but the, the course itself has been being used more and more every year.”Mat-Su Borough: Alcantra Disc Golf Course Gets Much Needed Improvement · Jun 24, 2026
0:36
Kelly Allen
“we're standing here with a bunch of wood chips that were donated by Foremost Construction, Fonoff Construction, Assemblymember Sumner, and Assemblymember Fonoff, and we've got several members from from the Mat-Su Disc Golf Association out here spreading these out around tee pads and the trails to help clear up all the muddy areas, 'cause we've got quite a few people that come and frequent the course outside of our club. We're just trying to clean it up and make it more presentable for the community.”Mat-Su Borough: Alcantra Disc Golf Course Gets Much Needed Improvement · Jun 24, 2026
0:28
Kevin Lilly
“I stand by my statement that the U.S. Park Police operated and conducted their business of defending, protecting this city in an appropriate manner. There was no malfeasance, nor was there any political motivation to it. And furthermore, sir, as you know, this is an ongoing investigation, and consequently I'm not in a position to share that information publicly.”Senate Environment and Public Works (Sullivan): Hearings to examine the nomination of Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife. · Jun 24, 2026