1997 Senate Report Card

105th Congress, 1st Session

Hearings held in 1997, with status of printed transcripts
Compiled by John A. McGeachy, July 17, 2000 at North Carolina State University
Revised December 4, 2001

                              Total #     Printed    Unprinted        %
                            hearings(1)   hearings    hearings     printed

Aging                           13           13            0         100% 
Agriculture                     27           27            0         100%
Appropriations                  34           33            1          97%
Armed Services                  15           14            1          93%
Banking                         37           37            0         100%
Budget                           6            5            1          83%
Commerce                        80           80            0         100%
Joint Economic                  17           17            0         100%
Energy                          58           53            5          91%
Environment                     25           25            0         100%
Ethics                           0            0            0         100%
Finance                         37           36            1          97%
Foreign Relations               64           23           41          36%
Government Affairs              54           50            4          93%
Indian Affairs                  20           20            0         100%
Intelligence                    23            6           17          26%
Judiciary                       74           73            1          99%
Labor                           56           56            0         100%
Library                          0            0            0         100%
Narcotics Control                1            1            0         100%
Printing                         1            1            0         100%
Rules                           13            1           12           8%
Small Buiness                   16           16            0         100%
Veterans' Affairs               13            7            6          54%


Totals                         684          594           90          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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