2003 Senate Report Card
108th Congress, 1st Session
Hearings held in 2003, with status of printed
transcripts
Compiled by John A. McGeachy, February 25, 2009 at North Carolina State
University
Total # Printed Unprinted %
hearings(1) hearings hearings printed
Aging 26 26 0 100%
Agriculture 8 8 0 100%
Appropriations 37 35 2 95%
Armed Services 36 19 17 53%
Banking 39 36 3 92%
Budget 8 8 0 100%
Commerce 89 34 55 38%
Joint Economic 12 12 0 100%
Energy 46 46 0 100%
Environment 25 25 0 100%
Ethics 0 0 0 100%
Finance 34 34 0 100%
Foreign Relations 86 57 29 66%
Governmental Affairs 58 57 1 98%
Health 31 31 0 100%
Indian Affairs 31 31 0 100%
Intelligence 15 2 13 13%
Judiciary 56 55 1 98%
Library 0 0 0 100%
Narcotics Control 1 1 0 100%
Printing 0 0 0 100%
Rules 8 0 8 0%
Small Business 7 7 0 100%
Taxation 0 0 0 100%
Veterans' Affairs 14 8 6 57%
Totals 668 532 135 80%
(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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