CongressSearch
Lobbyists and journalists often need to do research on what a specific Congress member’s position on an issue is. Since members speak a lot in committee hearings, hearing transcripts are a good source of information. However, the transcripts are not structured and thus are difficult to search.
CongressSearch is a tool I’m working on to simplify research using congressional hearing transcripts. It uses NLP algorithms to identify discrete sections of speech that can be indexed individually.
Here’s what it looks like so far:
When you click on a search result, you can see the transcript page with the statement highlighted:
