U.S. Congressional Committee Assignments, 103rd to 105th Congresses (1993-1998)

Records membership on all congressional committees for the 103rd to 105th Congresses, covering the period from 1993 to 1998. The dataset is updated periodically from the Congressional Record and was compiled by Charles Stewart III and Jonathan Woon.

Use Cases

• Modeling legislative influence based on committee membership records.
• Tracking changes in committee composition over three consecutive Congresses.
• Analyzing the distribution of committee assignments across political parties and members.

Strengths

• Covers three consecutive U.S. Congresses (103rd to 105th).
• Sourced from the official Congressional Record.
• Explicitly focused on committee assignments, a key feature of legislative organization.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Charles Stewart III and Jonathan Woon.

Collection Method

Updated periodically from the Congressional Record.

Time Range

1993 to 1998 (103rd to 105th Congresses).

Geography

United States Congress.