U.S. Senate Bibliographies
Comprehensive Lists of Hearings, Prints, and
Publications
Printed by the Senate, 1983 to the
present
Background |
Search Daily Digests |
Hearings Lists by Congress |
Statistical Reports of Printed Hearings |
Search Printed Senate Hearings |
Browse Unprinted Hearings |
Find Hearings on the Web |
File Names Used in These Pages
Much of the work conducted by the United States Congress occurs in committees
composed of a select number of congressmen. They gather information
about matters before them, and develop specific legislative proposals which
are then debated in the full Senate and House of Representatives. The
U.S. Congressional Committee
Meetings Index may be used to identify the subjects of meetings held by
committees. As a part of Congress' deliberative process, committees
produce a variety of publication types that document how issues progress
through Congress.
Committee Hearings, Committee Prints, and Committee Publications comprise
three of the types of documents produced during the legislative process.
These materials, together with Reports and Documents, comprise an important
segment of the holdings of many of the 1300 federal depository libraries
located throughout the nation. Bibliographic records for individual
titles in these series are contained in readily-available sources.
However, a comprehensive listing of Senate Hearings, Prints, and Publications
is not available to libraries.
Such lists can be of great value to depository libraries, and can aid persons
engaged in research on topics that Congress has investigated. The North
Carolina State University Libraries compiles data about Senate Hearings,
Prints, and Publications in database files as insurance that all of the pieces
are properly received and preserved. Files are available for the 98th
Congress (1983-84) to the present.
NCSU produces cumulative bibliographies of Senate Hearings, Prints, and
Publications from title page proofs received monthly from the Senate
Library. They are found on the following pages:
Search Daily Digests
The Congressional Record's Daily Digest sections contain brief
summaries of meetings held by Congressional committees. Annual files
containing these committee meeting descriptions for the Senate are available
from links on the Hearings Lists By Congress section.
You may also search the U.S.
Congressional Committee Meetings Index to determine the subjects of
meetings held by Congressional Committees.
Hearings Lists by Congress, and Other Lists
These pages contain links to a variety of resources:
annual Daily Digest files of Senate committee meetings;
lists of printed Senate Hearings, Committee Prints, and
Committee Publications, and
lists of unprinted Senate Hearings.
Click on a Congress to view the bibliographies:
Statistical Reports of Printed Hearings
These "Statistical Report Cards" contain summary statistical data
which
record, for each Senate committee,
the number of Hearings held;
show the numbers of Hearings printed and unprinted by the
Government Printing Office;
and assign a numerical grade representing how well each
committee informs the nation of its activities by publishing transcripts of
its Hearings.
Data is available for these eleven years, beginning with the 103rd Congress:
| 103rd Congress, 1st Session (1993) |
103rd Congress, 2nd Session (1994) |
| 104th Congress, 1st Session (1995) |
104th Congress, 2nd Session (1996) |
| 105th Congress, 1st Session (1997) |
105th Congress, 2nd Session (1998) |
| 106th Congress, 1st Session (1999) |
106th Congress, 2nd Session (2000) |
| 107th Congress, 1st Session (2001) |
107th Congress, 2nd Session (2002) |
| 108th Congress, 1st Session (2003) |
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Search Printed Hearings, Prints, and Publications Lists in Senate
Bibliographies
The local WAIS search feature formerly found here is no longer
available.
To obtain information about where you may locate printed copies of
the documents found on this site, contact the Federal Depository Library
nearest you.
Since 1997, many Senate Hearings have become available in electronic
form. The section below, Find Hearings on the Web,
identifies three sites that maintain links to certain hearings available
electronically.
Some hearings are not printed and made available to the public. This
section is an attempt to document these occurrences. Here you will find
a chronological list of all known hearings, both printed and unprinted.
Here also are additional lists of unprinted hearings in date order, grouped by
issuing committee, and in title order.
Data is available for nine years, 1993-2002; (103rd - 107th Congress).
A chronological list of all known hearings, both printed and unprinted, is
available only the 104th thru 106th Congresses (1995-2000).
Find Hearings on the Web
Since 1997 more Hearings have become available on the Internet. These
three sources provide links to electronic Hearings.
The Senate Web Server
offers a varying amount of information from and about most Senate
committees. Many electronic Hearing files (1997-) can be found here.
The Catalog of U.S. Government
Publications provides links to many Congressional hearings beginning with
the 105th Congress (1997 to present).
A guide maintained at the University of Michigan's Documents
Center, Congressional
Hearings on the Web
"attempts to document [electronic] free sources of Congressional hearings
available to the public without cost." References to some hearings
identified here date back to 1995. More House hearings are available
than are those from the Senate.
A naming convention is used to identify the files of Hearings, Prints, and
Publications, the Unprinted Hearings, and the Senate Report Cards. This
page describes how file names are chosen.
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