Congressional Witness Data

At ProQuest’s request, only limited replication data from Rackey, Bell, and Kosar’s 2022 The Monkey Cage post on declining congressional witnesses is available.

Limited replication data for the House Witness Database: Proquest Approved Replication Data

Coding System for Congressional Witness Dataset: Coding System for Congressional Witness Dataset

To cite this dataset, please use the following format:

Bell, Lauren C. and John D. Rackey [date retrieved]. U.S. House of Representatives Witness Database, 1971-2016. Retrieved from folios.rmc.edu/lbell/congressional-witnesses-dataset.