When a hearing is ordered, a subscriber can enter key words. These will be used to alert a subscriber while the hearing is taking place if any of them are mentioned. Every hearing listing contains background information that is being updated, even as the hearing is underway. Those materials include witness lists with appropriate hyperlinks and briefing material, committee and subcommittee members, with hyperlinks, prepared testimony and other materials and links that provide valuable primary source materials in one place, eliminating the need for a lot of searching. Access to archived hearings by subscribers varies by subscription plan.
Most plans allow access once hearings have been completed.
In the archives, subscribers may search the hearings using a variety of criteria. Subscribers can use transcripts that are accessed in the archives as they would other word processing documents, using commands such as Find, Copy, Paste, etc.