An Exploratory Analysis of Trends in Text Data from Congressional Oversight Hearings

Abstract

In general, the U.S. Congress exercises oversight over federal agencies (including the U.S. Department of Defense [DoD]) through various committees (Halchin and Kaiser, 2012). We assume that trends in what is said in these committees could signal the emergence of salient policy issues for policymakers. For example, if members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees (HASC and SASC, respectively) talk more and more about diversity in the military over several years, then it might suggest that diversity-related issues are becoming more salient.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1154916

Entities

People

  • Christian Johnson
  • Hilary Reininger
  • Marek N. Posard

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Automated Text Summarization
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Machine Learning
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Education
  • National Security
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Officer Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Political Science
  • Public Policy
  • Security
  • Unified Combatant Commands

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Theoretical Analysis.