2002 Senate Report Card

107th Congress, 2nd Session

Hearings held in 2002, with status of printed transcripts
Compiled by John A. McGeachy, January 19, 2007 at North Carolina State University

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

Aging                           21           21            0         100% 
Agriculture                     11           11            0         100%
Appropriations                  39           38            1          97%
Armed Services                  23           21            2          91%
Banking                         40           40            0         100%
Budget                           2            2            0         100%
Commerce                        78           77            1          99%
Joint Economic                  11           11            0         100%
Energy                          37           37            0         100%
Environment                     36           34            2          94%
Ethics                           0            0            0         100%
Finance                         26           26            0         100%
Foreign Relations               54           35           19          65%
Governmental Affairs            55           55            0         100%
Health                          64           63            1          98%
Indian Affairs                  36           36            0         100%
Intelligence                    22            6           16          27%
Judiciary                       60           60            0         100%
Library                          0            0            0         100%
Narcotics Control                2            0            2           0%
Printing                         1            0            1           0%
Rules                            1            0            1           0%
Small Business                   6            6            0         100%
Taxation                         1            0            1           0%
Veterans' Affairs               10            7            3          70%


Totals                         636          586           50          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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