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Committee & Hearing Intelligence

Search congressional hearing transcripts, extract witness testimony, track committee schedules, and monitor markups. Powered by GPO bulk data with full-text search.

Committee & Hearing Intelligence

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4 capabilities covering hearing transcript search, witness testimony extraction, committee scheduling, and congressional calendar tracking. Powered by Government Publishing Office (GPO) bulk data with full-text indexing across thousands of hearing transcripts.

Full-text search across congressional hearing transcripts from the Government Publishing Office. Find hearings by topic, committee, date range, or witness name - including hearings you didn't know existed. When a policy issue is heating up, hearing transcripts often contain the most substantive analysis and debate, but they're buried in PDF documents that traditional search tools can't penetrate.

Apogee ingests GPO hearing transcripts in bulk, parses them into structured segments (opening statements, witness testimony, Q&A exchanges), and indexes everything for full-text search. Results include hearing metadata (committee, date, title, witnesses) along with relevant transcript excerpts so you can evaluate relevance before reading the full transcript.

This is particularly valuable for policy researchers and journalists who need to find what was said about a topic across multiple committees and sessions - a task that would otherwise require manually downloading and reading dozens of PDFs from GPO.gov.

Data: Government Publishing Office bulk hearing transcripts. Covers House and Senate committee hearings with full transcript text, witness lists, and committee metadata.

Find hearings about AI safety from the past 6 months Try it → What hearings has the Senate Judiciary Committee held on antitrust? Try it → Search for hearing testimony about social media and children Try it →

Witness Testimony Extraction

Extract and search testimony from individual witnesses at congressional hearings. Identify what a specific expert, agency official, industry executive, or advocate said in their own words - without reading the entire hearing transcript.

Each hearing is parsed to attribute testimony segments to specific witnesses, including prepared statements and responses during Q&A. You can search for a specific witness across all hearings ("What has the FTC Chair testified about this year?") or find all witness testimony on a topic ("Who testified about drug pricing at Senate Finance Committee hearings?").

This capability powers the stance tracking system, where witness positions (support, oppose, neutral) on specific bills and policies are extracted and indexed in the knowledge graph.

How it works: Hearing transcripts are segmented by speaker using GPO formatting cues (witness identification, statement headers, Q&A turn-taking). Each segment is attributed to a witness and indexed independently.

Data: GPO hearing transcripts with witness attribution. Witness names are entity-resolved against the knowledge graph to link testimony to known organizations and individuals.

What did the FTC Chair say at the Senate Commerce hearing last month? Try it → Find testimony from tech company CEOs about Section 230 Try it → What did witnesses say about drug pricing at the Finance Committee hearing? Try it →

Committee Schedule

Unified view of upcoming hearings and markups across all congressional committees in both chambers. Filter by committee, chamber, or event type (hearings, markups, or both). See what's on the committee agenda before it happens - which bills are scheduled for markup, which topics are getting hearings, and which committees are most active.

This consolidates what was previously two separate tools (hearing schedule and markup schedule) into a single unified query. Markup tracking is especially important for legislative professionals - a bill being scheduled for markup is one of the strongest signals that it's advancing, and is often the point where lobbying and advocacy efforts intensify.

Data: Committee schedules sourced from congressional committee websites and Congress.gov. Updated daily with hearing and markup announcements.

What hearings are scheduled this week? Try it → When is the next Senate Armed Services Committee hearing? Try it → Show me upcoming markups in the House Energy and Commerce Committee Try it →

Congressional Calendar Intelligence

A unified congressional calendar combining committee schedules, floor schedules, recess periods, and legislative windows into a single view. Understanding the congressional calendar is critical for policy strategy - knowing when Congress is in session, when key committee markups are scheduled, and when floor votes are expected determines the timing of advocacy campaigns, lobbying pushes, and public communications.

Three modes: status returns today's session status and current week schedule, schedule returns upcoming events by date range, and recesses shows recess periods and state work periods. Data synced from four sources (DomeWatch, Senate Annual Schedule, Senate Session Days, House Bills This Week) twice daily.

Is Congress in session today? Try it → When is Congress in recess next? Try it → What's the floor schedule for the Senate this week? Try it → What legislative windows remain before the August recess? Try it →

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