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  • 3 - Who Testifies in Congress? New Data on Congressional Hearings and Witnesses

  • Pamela Ban, University of California, San Diego, Ju Yeon Park, Ohio State University, Hye Young You, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Hearings on the Hill
    Published online:
    21 November 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2024, pp 29-52

  • Summary

    This chapter introduces a novel dataset encompassing 731,810 witnesses across 74,077 House, Senate, and Joint standing committee hearings held between 1961 and 2018. The dataset includes comprehensive details such as witness names, organizational affiliations, hearing summaries, committee titles, dates, and bill numbers discussed. The chapter describes the meticulous construction process, emphasizing the extraction of key variables focusing on witness affiliations, affiliation type, and gender. With eighteen categorized affiliation types and nine broader parent categories, this classification captures the diverse spectrum of external groups represented in congressional hearings. The chapter also provides rich descriptive statistics on hearings and witness over time and across committees.