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Inside the product — Witness index

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Every witness, every appearance

The witness index as it stands today — 80,035 records, sortable by latest appearance, searchable by name, job title or organization.

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Inside the product — Hearing transcript

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Searchable, timestamped transcripts

Each line is timestamped and attributed, and the record links to the bill, the committee, and each witness's full appearance history.

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00:14:22Chair: The subcommittee will come to order. Our first panel will address interconnection queue delays.

00:31:08Witness: The average queue wait in three of the largest regions now exceeds four years, and that is the binding constraint.

00:47:51Member: Would the witness agree that permitting reform is a prerequisite here?

01:12:04Witness: Our members have deployed capital in five states pending that clarity.

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30,000+

Congressional hearings indexed

20 years

Of witness records searchable

80,035

Witness records in the index today

What you can do

✓Search witnesses by name, issue area, organization, or committee — across two decades of congressional hearings.

✓Link witness testimony directly to the bills, amendments, and policy outcomes each hearing influenced.

✓Identify former staffers, lobbyists, and industry figures who have testified on your issue areas — and track where they work now.

✓Download fully searchable testimony records and hearing transcripts linked to lawmakers as source documents for briefings and research.

See it in action

A government affairs team tracking a healthcare bill searches for every witness who has testified on pharmaceutical pricing in the past five years — and identifies three former staffers now working for competitor organizations. They pull each witness's full testimony record, note the positions taken, and build a targeted outreach map before the next markup hearing is scheduled.

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