Witness Testimony from Hearings

If you know the approximate date of the hearing, you can access the view of  hearings by date.  If you know the Witness Name, you should check out the alphabetical list of witnesses. 

Hearing Transcripts

The Committee publishes an official Printed Hearing Record of each of the hearings it holds.  Commonly referred to as the transcript of the hearing, the Printed Hearing Record contains a verbatim transcript of the event, along with supporting materials that are part of the official hearing record.

The Committee posts two versions of the Printed Hearing Record, a text only version and an Adobe PDF version.  The text only version omits charts, graphs and other items that cannot be displayed as text.

To see a complete list of available Printed Hearing Records, please visit the following links at the Government Printing Office.

• GPO list of 108th Congress Printed Hearings
• GPO list of 107th Congress Printed Hearings
• GPO list of 106th Congress Printed Hearings
• Printed Hearings from the 97th to the 105th Congress

Printed Hearing Records prior to the year 1999 are not available in electronic form.  The Committee has a limited number of Printed Hearing Records available.  You may also wish to contact the Government Printing Office or visit a Federal Deposit Library near you.

The Status Of Legislation Before the Committee

The best place to find the status of any legislation is via the Library of Congress Thomas Website. Simply enter in the bill number and you will be given the bill status and text of the bill.

Please note that at any given time, nearly 1/3 of all legislation introduced into the House of Representatives is referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.  It is not uncommon for a bill to be referred to the Committee and have no official action taken upon it.  For example, more than 50 bills were introduced in the 107th Congress relating to prescription drugs, yet the Committee took official action on only one, The Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002 (H.R. 4954).  

You may want to visit the Committee's Issue Area, to look see what action has been taken by the Committee in the area related to the bill you are interest in.

Finally, you should visit the Committee's Schedule, and consider subscribing to our Schedule Update email list.

Committee Membership

Full Committee Membership

• Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection

• Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality

• Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials

• Subcommittee on Health

• Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

• Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet

Schedule Updates

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