1996 Senate Report Card

104th Congress, 2nd Session

Hearings held in 1996, with status of printed transcripts
Compiled by John A. McGeachy, March 21, 2000 at North Carolina State University

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

Aging                           10           10            0         100% 
Agriculture                      7            7            0         100%
Appropriations                  33           32            1          97%
Armed Services                  14           13            1          93%
Banking                         18           18            0         100%
Budget                           1            1            0         100%
Commerce                        38           37            1          97%
Joint Economic                   7            7            0         100%
Energy                          44           44            0         100%
Environment                     11           11            0         100%
Ethics                           0            0            0         100%
Finance                         14           14            0         100%
Foreign Relations               55           25           30          45%
Government Affairs              31           30            1          97%
Indian Affairs                  14           14            0         100%
Intelligence                    28           15           13          54%
Judiciary                       49           43            6          88%
Labor                           25           25            0         100%
Library                          1            0            1           0%
Narcotics Control                0            0            0         100%
Printing                         0            0            0         100%
Rules                            5            2            3          40%
Small Buiness                    9            9            0         100%
Veterans' Affairs               10            5            5          50%
Whitewater                       8            8            0         100%


Totals                         432          370           62          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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