1993 Senate Report Card

103d Congress, 1st Session

Hearings held in 1994, with status of printed transcripts
Compiled by John A. McGeachy, November 30, 1999 at North Carolina State University

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

Aging                          15            15           0          100%
Agriculture                    18            18           0          100%
Appropriations                 54            45           9           83%
Armed Services                 31            25           6           81%
Banking                        50            49           1           98%
Budget                          5             3           2           60%
Commerce                       79            76           3           96%
Joint Economic                 24            16           8           67%
Energy                         62            60           2           97%
Environment                    47            46           1           98%
Ethics Study                    1             1           0          100%
Finance                        41            41           0          100%
Foreign Relations             163            92          71           56%
Government Affairs             56            55           1           98%
Indian Affairs                 31            31           0          100%
Intelligence                   23            14           9           61%
Judiciary                      50            49           1           98%
Labor                          66            65           1           99%
Library                         1             1           0          100%
Organization                   25            25           0          100%
Printing                        3             2           1           67%
Rules                          14             8           6           57%
Small Buiness                  15            14           1           93%
Veterans' Affairs              24            18           6           75%


Total                         898           769         129           86%


(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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