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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. 109-500Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance AuthorityHeld Feb 6, 2006 to Mar 28, 2006 · 906 pages
15 witnesses
  • Gonzales, Alberto R., Attorney General of the United States, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C
  • Fein, Bruce, Fein and Fein, Washington, D.C
  • Gormley, Ken, Professor of Constitutional Law, Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Kmiec, Douglas W., Professor of Constitutional Law, Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California
  • Koh, Harold Hongju, Dean, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Levy, Robert A., Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C
  • Turner, Robert F., Associate Director and Co-Founder, Center for National Security Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • Woolsey, R. James, Vice President, Global Strategic Security Division, Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Virginia
  • Baker, Hon. Harold A., Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
  • Brotman, Hon. Stanley S., Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Camden, New Jersey
  • Halperin, Morton J., Executive Director, Open Society Policy Center, Washington, D.C
  • Keenan, Hon. John F., Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, New York, New York
  • Kornblum, Hon. Allan, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern Dirstrict of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
  • Kris, David S., Senior Vice President, Time Warner, Inc., New York, New York
  • Stafford, Hon. William, Jr., Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Feb 6, 2006
S. Hrg. 109-722Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Paul J. Mcnulty, of Virginia, to Be Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice121 pagesFeb 2, 2006
S. Hrg. 109-939Consolidation in the Energy Industry: Raising Prices at the Pump?Held Feb 1, 2006 to Mar 14, 2006 · 563 pagesOn S. 1979, S. 1996
17 witnesses
  • Blumenthal, Richard, Attorney General, State of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut
  • Hamilton, Timothy A., Founder and Executive Director, Automotive United Trades Organization, Seattle, Washington
  • Kovacic, William E., Commissioner and former General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C
  • McAfee, R. Preston, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics and Management, and Executive Officer for the Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
  • Slocum, Tyson, Director, Public Citizen's Energy Program, Washington, D.C
  • Wells, Jim, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office, Washington, D.C
  • Alioto, Joseph M., Partner, Alioto Law Firm, San Francisco, California
  • Boies, David, Chairman, Boies, Schiller and Flexner, LLP, Armonk, New York
  • Borenstein, Severin, E.T. Grether Professor of Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
  • Greene, Thomas, Chief Assistant Attorney General, California Department of Justice, Sacramento, California
  • Hofmeister, John, President, Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas
  • Klesse, Bill, Chief Executive Officer, Valero Energy Corporation, San Antonio, Texas
  • Lautenschlager, Peg A., Attorney General, State of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
  • Mulva, James J., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas
  • O'Reilly, David J., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, California
  • Pillari, Ross J., President and Chief Executive Officer, BP America, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
  • Tillerson, Rex W., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ExxonMobil Corporation, Irving, Texas
Feb 1, 2006
S. Hrg. 109-540An Examination of the Death Penalty in the United States150 pagesOn S. 486
6 witnesses
  • Bright, Stephen B., President and Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Fagan, Jeffrey, Professor of Law and Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York
  • McAdams, John, Professor of Political Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Rubin, Paul H., Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Schieber, Vicki A., Chevy Chase, Maryland
  • Scott, Ann, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Feb 1, 2006
S. Hrg. 109-277Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, JR. to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesHeld Jan 2, 2006 to Dec 12, 2006 · 1,598 pagesOn S. 475
31 witnesses
  • Aldisert, Ruggero J., Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Axelrod, Edna Ball, Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Edna Ball Axelrod, South Orange, New Jersey
  • Barry, Maryanne Trump, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Becker, Edward R., Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Garth, Leonard I., Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Chicago, Illinois
  • Gerhardt, Michael J., Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • Gibbons, John J., Judge (retired), U.S. Court of Appeals, and Director, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, New Jersey
  • Issacharoff, Samuel, Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University, New York, New York
  • Kirsanow, Peter N., U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Partner, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, LLP, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Lewis, Timothy K., Judge (retired), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and Counsel, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP, Washington, D.C
  • Liu, Goodwin, Assistant Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
  • Phillips, Carter G., Managing Partner, Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, D.C
  • Scirica, Anthony J., Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Tober, Stephen L., Esq., Chairman, American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, Portsmouth New Hampshire; accompanied by Marna Tucker, Esq., D.C. Circuit Representative, American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, Washington, D.C.; and John Payton, Esq., Federal Circuit Representative, American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, Washington, D.C
  • WITNESSES Chemerinsky, Erwin, Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University Law School, Durham, North Carolina
  • Demleitner, Nora V., Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York
  • Flym, John G.S., retired Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Fried, Charles, former Solicitor General of the United States, and Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Frost, Amanda, Assistant Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C
  • Gonzalez, Hon. Charles A., a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas
  • Gray, Fred D., Senior Partner, Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray & Nathanson, Tuskegee, Alabama
  • Kronman, Anthony, Sterling Professor of Law and former Dean, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Michelman, Kate, former President, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League Pro-Choice America, Washington, D.C
  • Nolan, Beth, Partner, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Washington, D.C
  • Pringle, Katherine L., Partner, Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, New York, New York
  • Shaw, Theodore M., Director-Counsel and President, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc
  • Sullivan, Ronald S., Jr., Associate Clinical Professor of Law, and Senior Fellow, Jamestown Project, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Tribe, Laurence H., Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Turner, Reginald M., Jr., President, National Bar Association, Washington, D.C
  • Wasserman Schultz, Hon. Debbie, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida
  • White, Jack, Associate, Kirkland and Ellis, LLP, San Francisco, California
Jan 2, 2006
S. Hrg. 109-275Proposed Western Hemisphere Passport Rules: Impact on Trade and Tourism87 pages
6 witnesses
  • Dezenski, Elaine, Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy, Office of Policy, Planning and International Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C
  • Flores, Hon. Elizabeth G., Mayor, City of Laredo, Texas
  • Moss, Frank E., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Passport Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Washington, D.C
  • Nixon, Dennis E., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, International Bank of Commerce, Laredo, Texas
  • Sepulveda, Pete, Jr., Chairman, Border Trade Alliance, Phoenix, Arizona
  • Trevino, Guillermo, Chairman, Board of Directors of the Laredo Chamber of Commerce, Laredo, Texas
Dec 2, 2005
S. Hrg. 109-276Recent Developments in Assessing Future Asbestos Claims Under the Fair Act288 pagesOn S. 852, S. 1125
6 witnesses
  • Bates, Charles E., President and Senior Partner, Bates White, LLC, Washington, D.C
  • Holtz-Eakin, Douglas, Director, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D.C
  • Lederer, Mark, Chief Financial Officer, Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust, Katonah, New York
  • Martin, Denise Neumann, Senior Vice President, National Economic Research Associates, New York, New York
  • Peterson, Mark A., President, Legal Analysis Systems, Thousand Oaks, California
  • Welch, Laura, M.D., Medical Director, Center to Protect Workers Rights, Washington, D.C
Nov 17, 2005
S. Hrg. 109-1063Creating New Federal Judgeships: the Systematic or Piecemeal Approach172 pages
4 witnesses
  • Furgeson, W. Royal, Jr., District Judge for the Western District of Texas, and Chairman, Committee on Judicial Resources, Judicial Conference of the United States, San Antonio, Texas
  • Galanter, Marc, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
  • Spalter, Robyn, President, Federal Bar Association, Miami, Florida
  • Steele, William H., District Judge for the Southern District of Alabam, Mobile, Alabama
Nov 16, 2005

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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