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The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) contains a great amount of information about the operations of the U.S. Federal Government as embodied by the resources that Library Technical Services (LTS) have cataloged. Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) and LTS plan to mine the CGP for data to tell stories about Federal Government information and the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and to represent LSCM’s work. In this section, we present various types of CGP statistics and offer several features for viewing and downloading the data.
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| Legislation Types | Number of Records | Percentage of Total (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Total types | 4 | N/A |
| House bills | 222 | 86.7% |
| House simple resolutions | 30 | 11.7% |
| House concurrent resolutions | 2 | 0.8% |
| House joint resolutions | 2 | 0.8% |
| Committees | Number of Records | Percentage of Total (%) |
| Referred committees | 20 | N/A |
| Total referrals | 266 | N/A |
| Number of Pages | Number of Records | Percentage of Total (%) |
| 1 | 1 | 0.4% |
| 2 | 55 | 21.5% |
| 3 | 50 | 19.5% |
| 4 | 36 | 14.1% |
| 5 | 26 | 10.2% |
| 6 | 20 | 7.8% |
| 7 | 8 | 3.1% |
| 8 | 11 | 4.3% |
| 9 | 8 | 3.1% |
| 10 | 7 | 2.7% |
| 11-20 | 22 | 8.6% |
| 21-30 | 6 | 2.3% |
| 31-40 | 3 | 1.2% |
| 41-50 | 2 | 0.8% |
| 50+ | 1 | 0.4% |
| General Data | Number of Records | Percentage of Total (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Total records | 1,672 | N/A |
| Total terms used | 1,709 | N/A |
| Records with one term | 1,635 | 97.8% |
| Records with two terms | 37 | 2.2% |
| Online version records | 859 | 51.4% |
| Print version records | 813 | 48.6% |
| Specific Publication Types | Number of Records | Percentage of Total (%) |
|---|---|---|
| House documents | 21 | 1.3% |
| House hearings | 572 | 34.2% |
| House prints | 21 | 1.3% |
| House reports | 319 | 19.1% |
| Private laws | 3 | 0.2% |
| Public laws | 249 | 14.9% |
| Senate documents | 2 | 0.1% |
| Senate executive reports | 0 | 0.0% |
| Senate hearings | 276 | 16.5% |
| Senate prints | 0 | 0.0% |
| Senate reports | 227 | 13.6% |
| Treaty documents | 0 | 0.0% |
| General Publication Types | Number of Records | Percentage of Total (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Documents | 23 | 1.4% |
| Hearings | 848 | 50.7% |
| Laws | 252 | 15.1% |
| Prints | 21 | 1.3% |
| Reports | 546 | 32.7% |
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Terms
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First Term
|
Second Term
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Total
|
Percentage of Total (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture and Food | 29 | 0 | 29 | 1.7% |
| Animals | 14 | 2 | 16 | 0.9% |
| Armed Forces and National Security | 89 | 0 | 89 | 5.2% |
| Arts, Culture, Religion | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.1% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0.8% |
| Commerce | 27 | 0 | 27 | 1.6% |
| Congress | 62 | 0 | 62 | 3.6% |
| Crime and Law Enforcement | 112 | 0 | 112 | 6.6% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 98 | 2 | 100 | 5.9% |
| Education | 18 | 4 | 22 | 1.3% |
| Emergency Management | 74 | 0 | 74 | 4.3% |
| Energy | 24 | 0 | 24 | 1.4% |
| Environmental Protection | 74 | 0 | 74 | 4.3% |
| Families | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0.2% |
| Finance and Financial Sector | 35 | 0 | 35 | 2.0% |
| Foreign Trade and International Finance | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0.6% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 324 | 2 | 326 | 19.1% |
| Health | 123 | 12 | 135 | 7.9% |
| Housing and Community Development | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0.6% |
| Immigration | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0.4% |
| International Affairs | 86 | 0 | 86 | 5.0% |
| Labor and Employment | 33 | 8 | 41 | 2.4% |
| Law | 62 | 1 | 63 | 3.7% |
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Terms (continued)
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First Term
|
Second Term
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Total
|
Percentage of Total (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native Americans | 54 | 0 | 54 | 3.2% |
| Public Lands and Natural Resources | 152 | 0 | 152 | 8.9% |
| Science, Technology, Communications | 47 | 0 | 47 | 2.8% |
| Social Sciences and History | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.1% |
| Social Welfare | 20 | 2 | 22 | 1.3% |
| Sports and Recreation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Taxation | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0.4% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 52 | 0 | 52 | 3.0% |
| Water Resources Development | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0.6% |
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