1995 Senate Report Card
104th Congress, 1st Session
<3 class="red" align="center">Hearings held in 1995, with status of printed transcripts
Compiled by John A. McGeachy, November 17, 1998 at North Carolina State University
Total # Printed Unprinted %
hearings(1) hearings hearings printed
Aging 8 8 0 100%
Agriculture 20 20 0 100%
Appropriations 39 38 1 97%
Armed Services 26 23 3 88%
Banking 26 26 0 100%
Budget 7 6 1 86%
Commerce 44 44 0 100%
Joint Economic 21 21 0 100%
Energy 63 61 2 97%
Environment 27 26 1 96%
Ethics 0 0 0 100%
Finance 64 64 0 100%
Foreign Relations 64 27 37 42%
Government Affairs 39 38 1 97%
Indian Affairs 23 23 0 100%
Intelligence 28 7 21 25%
Judiciary 62 59 3 95%
Labor 47 47 0 100%
Library 1 0 1 0%
Narcotics Control 1 1 0 100%
Printing 1 0 1 0%
Rules 5 1 4 20%
Small Buiness 20 19 1 95%
Veterans' Affairs 11 5 6 45%
Whitewater 12 12 0 100%
Totals 659 576 83 87%
(1) Arriving at a figure for the total number of hearings held by a committee
is problematical. These conventions are used for the numbers in the first
column.
(a) For hearings that have been printed, each physically bound volume is
counted as one hearing. If a single bound volume of a printed hearing
contains the transcript of meetings held on multiple days, it is still counted
as a single hearing.
(b) The Daily Digest section of the Congressional Record is used to identify
unprinted hearings. For unprinted hearings, if the Daily Digest notes the
continuation of hearings on subsequent days, those multiple meetings of a
committee are counted as a single hearing.
Frequently, however, it is not possible to determine that a hearing is to be
continued at a later date. And later, when a second date for a hearing
appears in the Daily Digest, sometimes after a considerable length of time
between the committee meetings, the continuation of the hearing will be
counted as a second hearing, and entered separately into the appropriate
database.
Later when (or if) the transcript of this example hearing on multiple days is
printed, it will be noted that the printed volume contains the transcript from
multiple days. Adjustments will then be made in the databases to collapse
multiple records for the multiple meetings of the committee on the hearing
topic into a single record. This will result in a smaller number of "Total #
hearings" than was previously recorded.
(c) Field hearings present additional problems. They are not reported in the
Daily Digest. I have not found a convenient source of them, and would welcome
any suggestions as to how to identify them. The count of hearings contains
only those field hearings that have been printed; and when a new field hearing
is printed and becomes known, its addition will be added to both the "Total #
hearings" and to the "Printed hearings" columns.
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