: Matthew Dave's answer is correct: the language used in a Senate hearing is far more akin to legal or courtroom jargon, not business jargon; there's a huge specific lexicon, tailored and altered

Matthew Dave's answer is correct: the language used in a Senate hearing is far more akin to legal or courtroom jargon, not business jargon; there's a huge specific lexicon, tailored and altered grammar, and a huge whacking load of invariant tradition and etiquette wrapped up in a legal concept called "precedent" behind such legal and courtroom language.

Additionally, in the more specific case of a government setting, there are rules of protocol which apply - as a result, what you reference in your question is in fact not commonly-accepted US "professional" speech or language at all - it's specific to that context.

As to how to learn it? Law school would be a good start, followed by a number of years of government service. You can get some of it from reading Robert's Rules of Order for business and governmental committees.

Hope this helps.

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