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Fact sheet Spreadsheet

955 bills referred in the 119th Congress so far

8,612 across the 13 Congresses on file, more in this Congress than in any other. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 107th to 119th

Members
22

Seated in the 119th Congress

Subcommittees
7

Each with its own members and record

Meetings
94

Hearings and business meetings in the 119th Congress

Members 22

Chair and ranking member first, then alphabetically. Today's official roster.

Subcommittees 7

Each has its own record.

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. Every Congress on file.

The published transcripts, newest first, from GovInfo. Every Congress on file.

HearingTitleHeld
S. Hrg. 107-931Immigration Reform and the Reorganization of Homeland Defense142 pagesOn S. 2444
4 witnesses
  • Hing, Bill Ong, Professor, University of California-Davis School of Law and Asian American Studies, on behalf of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, San Francisco, California
  • Keener, Dana Marks, President, National Association of Immigration Judges, San Francisco, California
  • Martin, David A., Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • Walker, Kathleen Campbell, American Immigration Lawyers Association, El Paso, Texas
Jun 26, 2002
S. Hrg. 107-928Protecting the Homeland: the President's Proposal for Reorganizing Our Homeland Security Infrastructure136 pages
6 witnesses
  • Daalder, Ivo H., Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C
  • Eland, Ivan, Director, Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C
  • Gilmore, Hon. James S., III, Former Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Chairman, Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, Richmond, Virginia
  • Light, Paul C., Vice President and Director of Governmental Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C
  • Rudman, Hon. Warren B., Co-Chair, U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, Washington, D.C
  • Walker, Hon. David, Comptroller General, U.S. General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C
Jun 25, 2002
S. Hrg. 107-924Examining the Plight of Refugees: the Case of North Korea159 pages
9 witnesses
  • Allen, Hon. George, a U.S. Senator from the State of Virginia
  • Dewey, Arthur E., Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Department of State, Washington, D.C.; accompanied by Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Department of State, Washington, D.C.; and James Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, Washington, D.C
  • Gaer, Felice D., Commissioner, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Washington, D.C
  • Lee, Helie, West Hollywood, California
  • Lee, Sun-ok, North Korean Prison Camp Survivor, Seoul, South Korea
  • Liang-Fenton, Debra, Vice Chairman, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Mason, Jana, Asia Policy Analyst, U.S. Committee on Refugees, Washington, D.C
  • Massimino, Elisa, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Washington, D.C
  • Vollertsen, Norbert, M.D., Seoul, South Korea
Jun 21, 2002
S. Hrg. 107-923Penalties for White Collar CrimeHeld Jun 19, 2002 to Jul 24, 2002 · 340 pagesOn S. 995, S. 2010, S. 2673
17 witnesses
  • Bowman, Frank O., III, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Comey, Hon. James B., Jr., United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York, New York
  • Deputy, Howard, Smyrna, Delaware
  • Farmer, Janice, Orlando, Florida, accompanied by Jeffrey Farmer
  • Gainer, Hon. Glen B., III, West Virginia State Auditor, and Chairman, National White Collar Crime Center, Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Prestwood, Charles, Conroe, Texas
  • Rosenzweig, Paul, Senior Legal Research Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C
  • Skolnik, Hon. Bradley W., Indiana Securities Commissioner, and Chairman, Enforcement Section, North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc., Washington, D.C
  • Chertoff, Michael, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. and William W. Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana and Chairman, Attorney General's Advisory Committee, Subcommittee on Sentencing, Billings, Montana
  • Coffee, John C., Jr., Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law, New York, New York
  • Devine, Tom, Legal Director, Government Accountability Project, Washington, D.C
  • Donaldson, Thomas, Mark O. Winkelman Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Elson, Charles M., Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Professor of Corporate Governance, and Director, Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
  • Terwilliger, George J., III, White and Case, LLP, Washington, D.C
  • Doty, James R., former General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Partner, Baker Botts, LLP, Washington, D.C
  • Hills, Roderick M., former Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Chairman, Hills Enterprises Limited, Washington, D.C
  • Miller, G. William, former Secretary of the Treasury, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and Chairman, G. William Miller & Co., Inc., Washington, D.C
Jun 19, 2002
S. Hrg. 107-917Protecting the Innocent: Proposals to Reform the Death Penalty278 pages
7 witnesses
  • Delahunt, Hon. William D., a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts
  • LaHood, Hon. Ray, a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois
  • Liebman, James S., Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law, New York, New York
  • Logli, Paul A., State's Attorney, Winnebago County, Illinois, Rockford, Illinois, on behalf of the National District Attorneys Association
  • Otis, William G., Adjunct Professor of Law, George Mason University, Falls Church, Virginia
  • Scheck, Barry, Co-Director, Innocence Project, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York
  • Yackle, Larry, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
Jun 18, 2002
S. Hrg. 107-907Reducing the Risk of Executing the Innocent: the Report of the Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment187 pagesOn S. 233
8 witnesses
  • Bettenhausen, Matthew R., Deputy Governor for Criminal Justice and Public Safety, State of Illinois, and Executive Director, Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment
  • Hubert, Donald, Hubert, Fowler and Quinn, Chicago, Illinois, and Member, Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment
  • Kinsella, John J., First Assistant State's Attorney, DuPage County, Illinois
  • Marshall, Lawrence C., Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, and Legal Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University
  • Ryan, Hon. George, Governor, State of Illinois
  • Scheidegger, Kent, Legal Director, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California
  • Turow, Scott, Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, Chicago, Illinois, and Member, Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment
  • White, Druanne, Solicitor, Tenth Judicial Circuit, State of South Carolina
Jun 12, 2002
S. Hrg. 107-910The Criminal Justice System and Mentally Ill Offenders87 pagesOn H.R. 4066, S. 543
5 witnesses
  • Caceci, John, Captain, Monroe County Jail, Rochester, New York
  • Margolis, Gary, Director of Police Services, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
  • Mayfield, Kenneth President-Elect, National Association of Counties, and Commissioner, Dallas County, Dallas, Texas
  • Strickland, Hon. Ted, a Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio
  • Sudders, MaryLou, Commissioner of Mental Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
Jun 11, 2002
S. Hrg. 107-920Oversight Hearing on Counterterrorism353 pagesOn S. 1437
3 witnesses
  • Fine, Glenn A., Inspector General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C
  • Mueller, Robert S., III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C
  • Rowley, Colleen M., Chief Division Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C
Jun 6, 2002

By Congress

The committee's record in each Congress on file. Choose one to see the page as it stood then: its members, subcommittees and record. A dash means the official source has nothing that early, not that the committee did nothing.

CongressMembersBills referredReportedBecame lawReportsMeetingsPrinted hearingsNominationsCommunicationsPrints
119th2025–2026, sitting2495541519442292050
118th2023–20242383425141104762292690
117th2021–20222283531331132763002270
116th2019–202022738192228542772620
115th2017–20182266729297—63583371
114th2015–20162053231208—391122613
113th2013–20141843729108—822552870
112th2011–201218485662215—1042142531
111th2009–201021601552916—1243162291
110th2007–2008197041604439—1291772851
109th2005–20061860243174—1361772891
108th2003–2004196351143213—1102092881
107th2001–2002195871132816—1164503521

Earlier subcommittees 13

Subcommittees this committee once had, under their last names, with the Congresses they sat. Each has its own record.

Membership changes 18

Who joined, left or changed role after the committee was first filled, newest first, each with the official record.

DateMemberChangeRecord
Jul 21, 2026Darline Graham R-SCJoinedS.Res. 810
Jun 24, 2026Lindsey Graham R-SCLeft CongressLast recorded vote
Dec 10, 2024Adam B. Schiff D-CAJoinedS.Res. 926
Dec 5, 2024Laphonza R. Butler D-CALeft CongressLast recorded vote
Oct 17, 2023Laphonza R. Butler D-CAJoinedS.Res. 411
Sep 28, 2023Dianne Feinstein D-CALeft CongressLast recorded vote
Jan 9, 2018Cory A. Booker D-NJJoinedS.Res. 370
Jan 9, 2018Kamala D. Harris D-CAJoinedS.Res. 370
Dec 21, 2017Al Franken D-MNLeft CongressLast recorded vote
Jan 8, 2015Chuck Grassley R-IABecame ChairS.Res. 23
Nov 15, 2010Christopher A. Coons D-DEJoinedS.Res. 674
Sep 29, 2010Edward E. Kaufman D-DELeft CongressLast recorded vote
Jul 7, 2009Ron Wyden D-ORLeft the committeeS.Res. 208
Jul 7, 2009Al Franken D-MNJoinedS.Res. 208
May 5, 2009Arlen Specter D-PANo longer Ranking MemberS.Res. 131
May 5, 2009Jeff Sessions R-ALBecame Ranking MemberS.Res. 131
Jul 10, 2001John Edwards D-NCJoinedCongressional Record, S7417
Jul 10, 2001Patrick J. Leahy D-VTBecame ChairCongressional Record, S7417

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