CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS
ON THE WEB

Hearings by Committee

Senate
• Aging
  • Select testimony beginning 1997
• Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
  • Hearings begin with February 11, 1997
• Appropriations
  • Some subcommittees have selected testimony beginning 1998
• Armed Services
  • Extensive coverage of open hearings beginning 1998
• Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
  • Prepared statements begin January 22, 1997
• Commerce, Science and Transportation
  • Opening statements and selected testimony beginning February 1997
• Energy
  • Selected hearings beginning with the 104th Congress
• Environment and Public Works
  • Web
    • Prepared statements begins March 4, 1997
  • Gopher
    • Selected testimony for 1995
• Finance
  • Primarily a witness list beginning January 1997
  • Selected texts from the IRS oversight hearings in September 1997 from the chairman's web page
• Foreign Relations
  • Witness statements beginning 1998
  • Full text of hearings in text or pdf format from GPO Access beginning 1997
• Governmental Affairs
  • List of hearings for 1997; summary of hearings for 1998
  • Selected testimony appears under subcommittee
• Indian Affairs
  • Hearings list since 1993
  • Prepared testimony since 1997 available under the "witness list" of each hearing
• Judiciary
  • Selected testimony arranged by name of person rather than by subject beginning 1998
  • List of printed hearings since 1987
• Labor and Human Resources
  • Selected full text beginning 1997
• Rules and Administration
  • Full text beginning 1996
• Small Business
  • List of printed hearings beginning 1993
  • Real Player video of hearings beginning June 1998 but no printed transcriptions
• Veterans' Affairs
  • Selected testimony begins March 1996
• Year 2000 Technology Problem
  • Excerpted hearings since 1998
House
• Agriculture
  • Selected testimony if provided in electronic format by the witness beginning January 1997
  • Arranged by subcommittee
• Banking and Financial Services
  • Prepared testimony begins February 1997
• Banking Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy
  • Begins with 1996
• Budget
  • Comprehensive beginning 1995 and arranged by hearing number
• Commerce
  • Begins with 1995; arranged by subcommittee
  • There is also a Committee Hearings Database
• Education and the Workforce
  • Prepared testimony as available beginning 1998
  • Arranged by full committee or subcommittee
• Government Reform and Oversight
  • Selected testimony begins 1995
  • Arranged by subcommittee
• House Oversight
  • Plain text versions of 1995 and 1996 campaign finance reform hearings
• International Relations
  • Hearings begin January 1997 and are arranged by subcommittee
• Judiciary
  • Begins 1995; arranged by committee and subcommittee
• National Security
  • Selected testimony beginning 1998
• Resources
  • Begin in 1996
  • Arrangement by subcommittee and reverse chronological order
• Rules
  • Hearings beginning 1997 found under name of subcommittee
• Science
  • Begins in 1996
  • Arranged by subcommittee
• Small Business
  • Summaries since 1997 with some full text beginning 1998
  • Look under Legislation link
• Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Arranged by subcommittee only
• Veterans Affairs
  • Selected transcripts beginning 1993 but not all links work as of December 1998
  • Hearings Record provides the best access
• Ways and Means
  • Prepared statements and some full text beginning 1997
  • Arranged by full committee or subcommittee
Joint Committees
• Joint Economic Committee (House Majority)
  • Prepared statements and chairman's statements beginning 1997
Congressional Web Sites
• Lists additional committee web sites, some of which may have the text of hearings

Hearings by Government Agency Testifying

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Testimony begins June 1996
Department of Health and Human Services
• Begins in 1993
• Testimony of agency officials searchable by keyword
Department of State
• Testimony appears under subject pages (e.g. China)
• Testimony may also be accessed through the search engine at the bottom of the page
Securities and Exchange Commission
• Begins in 1995
• Arranged in reverse chronological order
Federal Web Locator (Villanova)
• Lists additional government agencies

Hearings by Lobby Group Testifying

Lobby Group Listing
• Connections to major lobby groups in the United States
Democracy Net
• Real audio coverage of various hearings on the Internet and written statements

Subject Index to Hearings

AltaVista
• Largest web index for all web venues
• Especially good for lobby group testimony
• Search by keyword in subject and testimony
GovBot
• Best index for federal government web pages
• Search by keyword in subject and testimony
Federal News Service
• Commercial index to Congressional hearings
• Index is free of charge though the full text requires a subscription
• Narrow search by subject and date
• University of Michigan affiliates can use the service to identify testimony before accessing FNS in the Documents Center via LEXIS or LEGI-SLATE

Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
The University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles
Send comments and suggestions to graceyor@umich.edu

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/hearings.html

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