To identify hearings that were not published, use the CIS Index to Unpublished U.S. Senate Committee Hearings 1823-1964 . Senate Executive Reports are indexed by subject, committee, and nominee name in the CIS Annual from 1970 to date. The same information provided in these four CIS indexes is available on the CIS Masterfile I and II CD-ROMs. The Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications , also identifies published hearings and Executive Reports and indicates their Superintendent of Documents classification number. The law library has all published hearings since 1925.
Most hearings are on microfiche.
For hearings from 1925 through 1979, use CIS microfiche. From 1980 to date the hearings may be found in either the Superintendent of Documents stacks or in the Superintendent of Documents microfiche. Since 1980, Senate Executive Reports have been published as part of the Serial Set . Sources for information regarding the legislative proceedings on nominations include the Congressional Record and the Journal of Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States . Another useful source is the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents which has a list of nominations at the end of each issue.