Congressional Oversight & Investigations Tracker

One clean feed of congressional oversight activity from official sources: hearing transcripts, committee reports, GAO audits, inspector general reports, executive actions and committee announcements. Every item is tagged by the federal agencies it mentions and checked against your watchlist (officials, agencies, companies, words like "subpoena" or "impeachment").

Oversight is set to intensify, whichever party controls the House after the 2026 midterms. This Actor is built for:

• law firms, compliance and government-relations teams preparing for congressional inquiries
• journalists and newsrooms
• watchdogs and think tanks
• investors tracking regulatory risk

It's strictly neutral: majority and minority committee feeds are both included, along with nonpartisan GAO and inspector general work.

Sources

Source	What it adds
GovInfo: congressional hearings	Newly published hearing transcripts (House and Senate)
GovInfo: committee reports	Committee reports, including investigative reports
GAO	GAO audit and investigation reports
DOJ Office of the Inspector General	DOJ IG audits, reviews and investigations
Federal Register	Executive orders, memoranda and proclamations
Senate committee schedule	Upcoming Senate hearings (when Congress is in session)
Committee press feeds	House Homeland Security, Ways & Means, Judiciary (majority and minority), Senate Finance
Congress.gov committee meetings	House and Senate hearings and markups: committee, status, location, witness lists and meeting documents
Your own feeds	Add any committee, inspector general or agency RSS/Atom feed

Output

{
  "type": "gao_report",
  "source": "GAO reports",
  "title": "Tobacco Products: FDA Should Monitor Timeliness of Application Reviews",
  "date": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+00:00",
  "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-...",
  "summary": "...",
  "agencies": ["HHS"],
  "matchedKeywords": [],
  "itemId": "a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8"
}

type is one of:

• hearing_transcript, committee_report, gao_report, inspector_general, executive_action
• committee_press, scheduled_hearing, committee_meeting, custom_feed

Committee meetings also include committee, chamber, meetingType, status, location, witnesses and documents.

Input

{
  "daysBack": 14,
  "watchKeywords": ["subpoena", "impeach", "Inspector General", "tariff"],
  "onlyWatchlistMatches": false,
  "agencies": ["DHS", "DOJ"],
  "onlyNewItems": true
}

Schedule it daily with Only new items turned on for an oversight alert feed.

Pricing

$2 per 1,000 items. No start fee.

Notes

• In October of an election year Congress is mostly in recess, so new hearings are rare. Published transcripts, reports and GAO work keep flowing.
• Agency tagging uses name and acronym matching, which is fast but not perfect. Check important items at the source link.

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Independent tool by weirworks. Not affiliated with the US Congress, GAO or any agency.