2000 Senate Report Card

106th Congress, 2nd Session

Hearings held in 2000, with status of printed transcripts
Compiled by John A. McGeachy, February 4, 2005 at North Carolina State University

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

Aging                           19           19            0         100% 
Agriculture                     25           25            0         100%
Appropriations                  32           32            0         100%
Armed Services                  25           22            3          88%
Banking                         33           33            0         100%
Budget                           3            3            0         100%
Commerce                        52           52            0         100%
Joint Economic                   7            6            1          86%
Energy                          74           72            2          97%
Environment                     36           35            1          97%
Ethics                           0            0            0         100%
Finance                         21           21            0         100%
Foreign Relations               67           48           19          72%
Governmental Affairs            32           32            0         100%
Health                          32           32            0         100%
Indian Affairs                  39           38            1          97%
Intelligence                    18            4           14          22%
Judiciary                       55           54            1          98%
Library                          0            0            0         100%
Narcotics Control                4            4            0         100%
Printing                         0            0            0         100%
Rules                            4            2            2          50%
Small Business                   9            0            0         100%
Taxation                         1            0            1           0%
Veterans' Affairs               15            9            6          60%
Year 2000                        0            0            0         100%


Totals                         603          552           51          92% 


(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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