Sources
What the video rests on. A retained source keeps the exact bytes captured on the date shown, so a quote can be checked against them later; a source that could not be retained is recorded by locator only, with the refusal noted.
| Kind | Source | Publisher · rights | Captured | Retention | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video | US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, September 3, 2026) | US House Clerk (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives) | 2026-09-28 | not retained | res-hr4795-house-floor-video sha256:a735b3581371… |
| Text | Transcript of the recording, 9:00 to 11:10 (automatic, checked against the video) | US House Clerk (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives) | 2026-09-27 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:19e27603bc95… | res-us-house-floor-2026-09-03-iaX2hzq_saA-transcript-540-670 sha256:ea148326825d… |
| Text | H.R. 4795 as reported in the House, Union Calendar No. 681 (bill text XML, GovInfo) | U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), publishing the U.S. House of Representatives text | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:45e2edbe1e15… | res-hr4795-govinfo-bills-119hr4795rh sha256:a646af46af47… |
| Text | Congressional Record, daily edition, September 3, 2026 (House proceedings and Daily Digest, PDF) | U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), publishing the U.S. House of Representatives text | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:4ef819e6b463… | res-hr4795-govinfo-crec-2026-09-03-pdf sha256:d21dbd951bbf… |
| Text | Congressional Record, September 3, 2026: text extracted from the PDF (pypdf; hyphenated line breaks joined) | U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), publishing the U.S. House of Representatives text | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:e8ee06f37c5a… | res-hr4795-govinfo-crec-2026-09-03-text sha256:bc0fd3190882… |
| Text | Congressional Record granule CREC-2026-09-03-pt1-PgH5483-2: PROTECT ECONOMIC AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM ACT OF 2026 (official HTML text) | U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), publishing the U.S. House of Representatives text | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:f0ec39600a13… | res-hr4795-govinfo-crec-2026-09-03-granule-crec-2026-09-03-pt1-pgh5483-2 sha256:70a10b3e15f0… |
| Text | H.R. 4795 bill text | Library of Congress, Congress.gov | 2026-09-28 | not retained | res-hr4795-bill-hr4795-text sha256:beadecac584c… |
| Data | H.R. 4795 as referred in the Senate, September 14, 2026 (bill text XML, GovInfo) | U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), publishing the U.S. House of Representatives text | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:255bd1b843e0… | res-hr4795-govinfo-bills-119hr4795rfs sha256:791df18856e6… |
| Data | H.Res. 1499, the rule for consideration, engrossed in the House (XML, GovInfo) | U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), publishing the U.S. House of Representatives text | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:d41c2b5f8a68… | res-hr4795-govinfo-bills-119hres1499eh sha256:097bb452fe14… |
| Data | H.R. 4795 bill status (Congress.gov API: latest action, sponsors, versions) | Library of Congress, Congress.gov API | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:af89adf18e63… | res-hr4795-congress-api-bill-119-hr4795 sha256:f5624d8a146c… |
| Data | GovInfo package summary for BILLS-119hr4795rfs (keyed API) | U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), publishing the U.S. House of Representatives text | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:b39242124440… | res-hr4795-govinfo-api-bills-119hr4795rfs-summary sha256:28df601c0a90… |
| Data | GovInfo package summary for BILLS-119hr4795rh (keyed API) | U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), publishing the U.S. House of Representatives text | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:81b1fa033e10… | res-hr4795-govinfo-api-bills-119hr4795rh-summary sha256:6be001177cc7… |
| Data | GovInfo package summary for CREC-2026-09-03 (keyed API) | U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), publishing the U.S. House of Representatives text | 2026-09-28 | retained · bytes match digest sha256:b645a089045f… | res-hr4795-govinfo-api-crec-2026-09-03-summary sha256:7bcc23ba480c… |
| Data | H.R. 4795 bill page (119th Congress) | Library of Congress, Congress.gov | 2026-09-28 | not retained | res-hr4795-bill-hr4795 sha256:224acf4a2917… |
| Data | H.Res. 1499 (the rule for consideration) | Library of Congress, Congress.gov | 2026-09-28 | not retained | res-hr4795-hres1499 sha256:9620b5396846… |
Verbatim quotes shown in the video
Each quote is a source assertion: exact words, who said them and where they sit in the recording. The selector check re-finds the quote in the retained transcript bytes.
“Union Calendar No. 681, H.R. 4795, a bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit an institution that participates in a non-expressive commercial boycott of Israel from being eligible for certain funds under that act, to require an institution that participates in certain programs under that act, to certify that students are not unreasonably obstructed from participating in academic programs in Israel, and for other purposes.”
asr-house-2026-09-03-hr4795-title-as-read · sha256:b2e0fa77d7e8… · attribution basis: transcript speaker label
“Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1499, I call up H.R. 4795, Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2026, and ask for immediate consideration in the House.”
asr-house-2026-09-03-hr4795-call-up-walberg · sha256:c6cd115d6ebd… · attribution basis: transcript speaker label
“To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit an institution that participates in a nonexpressive commercial boycott of Israel from being eligible for certain funds under that Act, to require an institution that participates in certain programs under that Act to certify that students are not unreasonably obstructed from participating in academic programs in Israel, and for other purposes.”
asr-hr4795-official-title-bill-text-rh · sha256:aebfb5fdcd53… · attribution basis: document text
“I call up the bill (H.R. 4795) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965”
asr-hr4795-call-up-congressional-record · sha256:da3d47c8a6a2… · attribution basis: document speaker label
“by a yea-and-nay vote of 237 yeas to 169 nays, Roll No. 295”
asr-hr4795-passage-congressional-record-digest · sha256:6916fac1ae6d… · attribution basis: document text
“So the bill was passed.”
asr-hr4795-passed-congressional-record-proceedings · sha256:dbff3c265c66… · attribution basis: document text
“So the bill was passed.”
asr-hr4795-passed-congressional-record-granule · sha256:1be5ec69b7d8… · attribution basis: document text
“Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.”
asr-hr4795-senate-referral-congress-api · sha256:91288eee1b18… · attribution basis: document text
What the editors read into it
What the bill as read would do: make institutions in a non-expressive commercial boycott of Israel ineligible for certain Higher Education Act funds, and require certification that students are not unreasonably obstructed from academic programs in Israel. Later the same day the House passed the bill, 237 yeas to 169 nays (Roll No. 295); on September 14, 2026 it was referred to the Senate
- The Clerk's reading is taken from the automatic transcription of the official recording and was checked against the video by a person
- The sponsor's opening statement (from 21:18 of the recording) was excluded from the fragment and the narration as advocacy, not record
- The context beat states the funding lever and the commercial-versus-expressive line without attributing positions to any party, and states the House vote and the Senate referral as documented in the Congressional Record and the bill's referred-in-Senate text
int-hr4795-what-the-record-shows-comuvia-news-1 · sha256:afb55a8eb1d4… · editor:comuvia-news · reviewer interpretation · manual reading · confidence 0.9 · frozen 2026-09-28
What is not in the video
- The sponsor's opening statement (from 21:18 of the recording) is not shown: advocacy, not record.
- The one-hour debate and the recorded vote are outside the fragment; the retained Congressional Record documents them, and the narration states the result.
- The narration does not assess the bill's effects; the interpretation record carries that condition as unresolved.
Review trail
| Step | By | When | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| source selection | editor:comuvia-news | 2026-09-27 | Official House Clerk recording chosen; C-SPAN and House Clerk placed band 1 in the MediaManager Channel Research ledger |
| timing check | editor:comuvia-news | 2026-09-27 | Whisper transcript of 9:00 to 11:10 checked against the video; fragment cut 19:19 to 20:11 |
| script review | owner | 2026-09-28 | Narration states only the title as read and the procedural facts; effects left to the linked documents |
| cut review | owner | 2026-09-28 | AEP layout with the record inside the content frame approved for the 4K production render |
| official documents retained | editor:comuvia-news | 2026-09-28 | Bill text (as reported, as referred in the Senate), H.Res. 1499 and the Congressional Record of September 3 retained from GovInfo; congress.gov pages refused scripted retrieval (403) |
| correction before release | editor:comuvia-news | 2026-09-28 | The Record shows the House passed the bill the same day (237 to 169, Roll No. 295) and the Senate referral on September 14; narration beat 3, the context card and the description corrected; interpretation revised (revision 2) |
Corrections
- 2026-09-28: Correction: the House passed H.R. 4795 on September 3, 2026 (237 to 169, Roll No. 295) and the bill was referred to the Senate on September 14; the first cut described the vote as pending. Found on 2026-09-28 while retaining the Congressional Record from GovInfo; fixed before public release. (int-hr4795-what-the-record-shows-comuvia-news-1 revision 2 (predecessor sha256:bb6bbe033f60...))
Published artifacts
| File | Role | Bytes | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| fragment_plain.mp4 | record fragment | 17,965,552 | 243b4cf700fadeac… |
| news_hr4795_aep_4k.mp4 | published cut | 471,852,582 | bac25f23c891812e… |
Video ledger
| Upload | Status |
|---|---|
| 5G27uaCPzDI | public |
About this video
What the video shows. Three parts: an introduction by the Comuvia News presenter, the official House recording of the moment (the Speaker recognises Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan, the bill is called up under H.Res. 1499, and the Clerk reads the bill title, 9:26 to 10:11 of the recording), and two explanatory cards: what the bill as read would do, and the context (the funding lever, the commercial-versus-expressive line, what to watch). How it was made. The presenter is a computer-generated character with an AI voice, reading a script drafted with Comuvia's AI system and reviewed by an editor; the video says so on screen, in its description and in YouTube's altered-or-synthetic-content label. The record segment is the unaltered official recording with its original audio (scaled to the frame with a scan-line texture for presentation). The narration states only what the record and the linked documents show; assessments of the bill's effects are left to the bill text and the committee report. How to inspect it. Every source above is a record in a Comuvia SDK store: the transcript snapshot keeps the exact bytes the quotes were checked against, the assertions carry the recording times, and the interpretation states its condition and assumptions. A correction, if ever needed, is appended as a visible successor record. Three official document pages (the bill, its text and the rule) refused automated retrieval on the registration date; they are listed by locator only, and the refusal is recorded rather than hidden.