Nihilist in Golf Pants has compiled a list of "verbosity indices" for each Senator on the judiciary committee. The index is WSi/(WSi + WAi), expressed as a percentage. (W is the word counts taken from the transcript. WSi is the word count for each individual Senator, WAi is the word count for Judge Alito during each individual Senator's questioning.
The index ranges from a low of 42.7% (Sen. Kohl) to a high of 79.8% (Sen. Cornyn). Adding up the word counts for all the senators, I find the committee's aggregate verbosity index is 59.6%.
And I had always thought the purpose of a "hearing" was for the Senators to hear the witness.
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