Congressional Hearings (CHRG)

planned Legislative · Tier 1 · govinfo collection · U.S. Congress

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What this source is

Congressional committees publish their hearing records through the Government Publishing Office. This collection carries printed hearing transcripts — witness testimony and member questioning — released weeks to months after the hearing date.

Identity and registry record

Registry id: govinfo-chrg
Agency / parent organization: U.S. Congress
Branch: legislative
Type: govinfo collection
Status: planned
Tier: 1
URL (collection): https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/CHRG (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2026-07-26
Registry notes: Publication lag means hearing transcripts are not day-shaped; date semantics need a rule before activation. Probed 2026-07-31 through the govinfo API: newest dateIssued 2026-06-30, a 31-day lag, and the packages actually changing day to day are dated 2024-2025. Zero dated within 7 days. Hearings are substantive but reach govinfo long after the hearing, so under the §3 dating rule they would not land on a current digest day.

How we ingest it

Channel: govinfo collection
Method: Would sync via the govinfo collections API delta mechanism once enabled (GUIDE §7 Phase 4).
Request budget: the govinfo class: at most 6,000 requests per day and 500 per hour, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too); collectors stop at 85% so the end-of-day finalizer always has headroom
Politeness: keyed govinfo API access; every request is logged before it is made and identified as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com)
Capture and hash: captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.

All time

Our requests to api.govinfo.gov, all time (since 2026-07-30): 17,998 request(s) · 12,352 answered · 5,646 returned no content

This host serves 5 registered sources, so these figures are host-wide.

Request counts begin 2026-07-30, the day this service went into production; earlier development-machine traffic is excluded. Counts before 2026-08-03 include unmarked source-probe traffic; probes are labeled and excluded thereafter.

Last 30 days, day by day

Requests per day to api.govinfo.gov (host-wide): 17,998 requests over the last 5 days (peak 6,000 on 2026-08-01).

Requests per day to api.govinfo.gov (host-wide): 17,998 requests over the last 5 days (peak 6,000 on 2026-08-01).
Day	requests
2026-07-30	2000
2026-07-31	5100
2026-08-01	6000
2026-08-02	4062
2026-08-03	836

Daily mean response time of api.govinfo.gov: between 342 and 705 ms across the last 5 days (days without a timed request are gaps, not zeroes).

Daily mean response time of api.govinfo.gov: between 342 and 705 ms across the last 5 days (days without a timed request are gaps, not zeroes).
Day	ms
2026-07-30	639
2026-07-31	539
2026-08-01	342
2026-08-02	495
2026-08-03	705