1998 Senate Report Card 105th Congress, 2nd Session
Hearings held in 1998, with status of
printed transcripts
Compiled by John A. McGeachy, December 4,
2001 at North Carolina State University
Total # Printed Unprinted %
hearings(1) hearings hearings printed
Aging 21 21 0 100%
Agriculture 17 17 0 100%
Appropriations 34 32 2 94%
Armed Services 18 16 2 89%
Banking 28 28 0 100%
Budget 8 5 3 63%
Commerce 64 62 2 97%
Joint Economic 14 14 0 100%
Energy 49 49 0 100%
Environment 26 21 5 81%
Ethics 0 0 0 100%
Finance 23 23 0 100%
Foreign Relations 65 28 37 43%
Government Affairs 49 49 0 100%
Indian Affairs 21 20 1 95%
Intelligence 15 5 10 33%
Judiciary 59 57 2 97%
Labor 40 40 0 100%
Library 0 0 0 100%
Narcotics Control 4 4 0 100%
Printing 0 0 0 100%
Rules 8 1 7 13%
Small Buiness 10 10 0 100%
Veterans' Affairs 10 6 4 60%
Year 2000 10 10 0 100%
Totals 593 518 75 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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