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What is said in the sittings, update by update, the latest first. Each update opens the video at the second it was said.

  1. EDT

    “Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”

    Second round Q&A: criminal infrastructure, verification signals, and policy fixes

    Follow-up questioning delves into the operational ecosystem of online fraud tutorials and foreign syndicates, the need to move beyond document and biometric checks toward behavioral and historical signals, user redress and fallback channels for login.gov, and concrete legislative priorities such as cross-agency fraud intelligence, Privacy Act reform, and national digital ID safeguards.

    In this chapter

    1. Second round: fraud tutorials, deepfakes, and historical signals
    2. Ranking Member policy round: legislative priorities and closing remarks

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  3. EDT

    “Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”

    Witness opening statements: fraud threats, login.gov, and digital ID models

    Industry, GAO, academic, and civil liberties witnesses present contrasting diagnoses of identity-related fraud, assess login.gov’s technical and governance gaps, and outline competing visions for risk-based verification, cross-agency data use, and privacy-preserving digital ID design.

    In this chapter

    1. Socure (Burris): ‘World War Fraud’ and continuous identity
    2. GAO (Cruz Cain): identity-related fraud and login.gov weaknessesPete Sessions
    3. SentiLink (Maimon): fraud as criminal infrastructure and policy priorities
    4. ACLU (Stanley): digital ID risks and privacy-preserving alternativesPete Sessions

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  4. EDT

    “Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”

    Hearing opening: oversight goals and fraud context

    The Chair and members frame the hearing’s objectives on identity fraud, login.gov, and digital ID, outline the scale of pandemic-era losses, and set expectations for bipartisan oversight and IT modernization before swearing in the witnesses.

    In this chapter

    1. Chairman: hearing opened and fraud contextPete Sessions
    2. Ranking Member: digital ID, login.gov, and civil libertiesPete Sessions
    3. Full Committee Chair Palmer: fraud magnitude and IT modernizationPete Sessions
    4. Witness introductions, swearing-in, and hearing proceduresPete Sessions

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  5. EDT

    “Hearing with the Commissioners of the Postal Regulatory Commission”

    Mid‑hearing Q&A: DFA assumptions, accountability, and legislative options

    Members probe DFA’s financial and volume assumptions, productivity gaps, PRC limits on facility‑level problems, and demands for better USPS projections, while the Ranking Member and others frame a statutory Universal Service Obligation and strengthened PRC powers as central to durable postal reform.

    In this chapter

    1. Q&A: DFA assumptions, productivity, and local accountability gaps
    2. Ranking Member closing: Universal Service Obligation as central reform
    3. Budzinski and Walkinshaw: Strengthening PRC and demanding projections

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  6. EDT

    “Hearing with the Commissioners of the Postal Regulatory Commission”

    Initial Q&A: Products, pricing authority, and rural service

    Members question commissioners on unprofitable products, collective bargaining and labor costs, use of above‑inflation rate authority, USPS–private sector interactions, transparency tools, DFA/RTO savings claims, and the impacts on rural, time‑sensitive, and election mail service.

    In this chapter

    1. Q&A: Burchett and Norton on products, labor, and rate hikes
    2. Q&A: Foxx and Frost on private competition and RTO impacts
    3. Q&A: Retirement liabilities, rural service, and election performance

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  7. EDT

    “Hearing with the Commissioners of the Postal Regulatory Commission”

    Commissioners’ statements: DFA plan, USO, and financial structure

    PRC commissioners present prepared testimony on the Delivering for America plan’s shortcomings, the retirement payment waiver, limits of ratemaking, labor and rural access issues, network design flaws, and the need to clearly define and fund the Universal Service Obligation.

    In this chapter

    1. Taub: DFA failure, cash waiver, and defining USO
    2. Fisher: Ratemaking limits, labor costs, and rural access
    3. Day: Network design flaws in Delivering for America
    4. Poling: Five‑alarm fire and leveraging USPS assets

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    “Hearing with the Commissioners of the Postal Regulatory Commission”

    Opening of hearing and USPS oversight mandate

    The Chair and Ranking Member formally open the hearing, set oversight objectives on USPS’s financial crisis, PRC’s statutory role, and potential new guardrails, then introduce and swear in commissioners under standard ground rules.

    In this chapter

    1. Opening procedures and hearing objectives
    2. Ranking Member: PRC mandate and needed guardrails
    3. Witness introductions, swearing-in, and ground rules

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