Scenario 2, Part A.2: Institutional Capacity
Legislative and Nonlegislative Hearings Activity in Congress
The exercise is to replicate the chart below. Note, however, that the analysis tool does not allow a simultaneous view of legislative and nonlegislative hearings activity, so you will need to do this in two parts.
(Click on the thumbnails to view the larger picture.)
Basic Instructions for Legislative Hearings Activity
- Click here to open a new window with the analysis tool.
- Select the Congressional Hearings dataset. This dataset is the default dataset on the query form, so no need to check the box since it is already checked.
- Under the Congressional Hearing dataset are a series of filter options for the dataset. Under "Legislative Matters" select "only include" in order to filter the dataset to show only legislative (referred) hearings.
- Leave the boxes near the major topics blank.
- Select appropriate beginning and ending Congressional Sessions. (Don't forget to click the option for "the Congressional Sessions", rather than "Years"!)
Note: the 79th and 106th Congresses contain only partial data (1 year each).
- Select the option "Number of cases per year or congress"
- Click "Search."
- A chart will appear graphing the number of legislative (referred) hearings over time.
(The Chart Tutorial provides detailed instructions about changing the chart appearance.)
- To graph nonlegislative (non-referred) hearings, follow steps 1 through 6 but, select "exclude all" under "Legislative Matters" to view all nonlegislative (non-referred) hearings.
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