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The State of the Hearings · June 2026

Boeing was named in Congress 214 times in June — more than the next three private companies combined.

Synedi's monthly read on what Congress said out loud in hearings — the names, the numbers, the clips. This edition covers 1,240 hearing hours across the house, senate, joint committees.

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1 big thing · Company Heat Index
214
BOEING MENTIONS · JUNE
▲ 138% vs. prior month · 12-month high
door-plug hearing
12 months agoJune 2026
▶ Watch the door-plug hearing → (sample clip)
Synedi · company-heat-index · n = 1,240 hearing hours
01 · Company Heat Index

OpenAI's +52% rise was the real story under Boeing's spike.

Boeing 214
UnitedHealth 129
OpenAI 96
BlackRock 74
Ticketmaster 61
Biggest riser
Boeing ▲ 138%
Biggest faller
Meta ▼ 34% off its April peak
Synedi · company-heat-index →▶ Every mention, clipped →
02 · Contentiousness Index

June's most heated hearing ran at 4.7 interruptions a minute — the highest this year.

4.7
interruptions / min
House Oversight · FEMA Disaster Relief Fund Mismanagement · 2026-06-12
A measured count, not a verdict. Runner-up: Senate Banking, 3.9/min.
Synedi · contentiousness-index · a count, not a verdict▶ Watch the flashpoint →
03 · Topic Momentum

PBM reform surged +61%; crypto cooled -28% as the market-structure bill stalled.

PBM reform
+61%
AI liability
+38%
Farm bill
−19%
Crypto
−28%
Most bipartisan
Fentanyl trafficking · near-even D/R speaking share
Most one-sided
Student debt · 78% one side
Synedi · topic-momentum · party-attributed timeSee the overlap →
04 · Witness / Org Airtime

RAND got the most witness minutes in June.

01 RAND Corporation 142m
02 American Enterprise Institute 118m
03 Brookings Institution 97m
04 U.S. Chamber of Commerce 88m
Synedi · org-airtime · witness minutesFull leaderboard →
Most-named agency
FAA
187 mentions
Issue of the month
PBM reform
9 committees
Busiest committee
Energy & Commerce
14 hearings
Plainest-spoken
Grade 8.2
Senate Aging
The receipts
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