1994 Senate Report Card

103d Congress, 2nd 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                           8             8           0          100%
Agriculture                    20            20           0          100%
Appropriations                 45            43           2           96%
Armed Services                 32            25           7           78%
Banking                        52            52           0          100%
Budget                          3             3           0          100%
Commerce                       46            46           0          100%
Joint Economic                 18            10           8           56%
Energy                         55            53           2           96%
Environment                    23            21           2           91%
Finance                        45            45           0          100%
Foreign Relations              80            21          59           26%
Government Affairs             54            53           1           98%
Indian Affairs                 28            27           1           96%
Intelligence                   20             4          16           20%
Judiciary                      45            43           2           96%
Labor                          43            38           5           88%
Printing                        1             0           1            0%
Rules                           8             0           8            0%
Small Buiness                  15            14           1           93%
Veterans' Affairs              14            10           4           40%
 

Total                         656           536         120           82%


(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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