the Senator's sponsored measures that was referred to the committee, the information about the new co-sponsor will appear in the "Sponsored Measures" section of the auto-tracking report, and will not appear in the "Committee Referral" section.

The auto-tracking reports are printed on pre-punched three-hole paper. Two options are available as to the form of the reports:

1. Legislative status information: either entire legislative history whenever a legislative action occurs, or only the new actions.

2. The report can be printed in "continuous print" list format, or it can be printed with each measure starting on a new page.

ADDITIONS IN 1980

During the Second Session of the 96th Congress, additional information and capabilities were be added to Legis. These include:

Co-sponsors added or withdrawn for use in the daily issue of the Congressional Record and the Senate Journal;

Nominations received by the Senate and all confirmation actions

taken;

Simplified techniques for using the Senate Scheduling System for all Senate users; and

House floor amendments added to Senate Legis data base. Work was begun during 1980 on the inclusion in Legis of Senate publications and treaties received for the Senate's advice and consent.

COMMITTEE MEETING AND HEARING SCHEDULES

The Senate Committee Scheduling System, mandated for development by the Rules Committee in S. Res. 4, 95th Congress, has been implemented as part of Legis. Information about all Senate committee, subcommittee, and conference meetings, hearings, and mark-ups is presently being entered by the Secretary of the Senate as soon as this information is known. Once entered, daily schedules for all such activities can be viewed on computer terminals located throughout the Senate. In addition, an individual Senator's schedule can be retrieved, as well as those for specific committees and subcommittees. Staff directors can also view all meetings and hearings scheduled for the members of their committees.

New computer displays, which are much easier to use, have been developed for these and other timely Legis reports.

DATA BASES AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND THE
CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE

New Scorpio features, including the capability for retrieving documents and abstracts by searching text words, were applied to several data bases. One of these, the Capitol Information Services' abstract file for the 94th, 95th, and 96th Congress' daily issue of the Congressional Record was found to be much more effective as a research and reference file with the addition of a text retrieval capability.

Data files for three General Accounting Office directories of report abstract and index records were received by the Library's Information Systems Office. Two of these, GAO's directory of information sources and systems and its directory of recurring reports required of federal agencies were brought up as Scorpio data bases for use by all Congressional offices. A third, the GAO directory of federal program evaluations was made available during the first session of the 96th Congress.

In addition, the Library of Congress maintains an automated information system containing several data bases to which the Senate has access through computer terminals. These data bases include the Legislative Information File (beginning with the 93rd Congress), the Bibliographic Citation File, the Major Issues File, the Congressional Record Abstracts File, the National Referral Center Resources File, the Library of Congress Computerized Catalog, and the Machine Readable Catalog (MARC).

LEGAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AT THE SENATE (JURIS)

Juris, an acronym for Justice Retrieval and Inquiry System, is an information retrieval system containing case law, Modern Federal Practice Digest, Statutory Law, and over 4,000 briefs filed by the litigating divisions of Justice and selected by attorneys' offices. The data base is available on subscription and maintained by the Department of Justice. The Senate Legislative Counsel and the new office of the Senate Legal Counsel are both now using Juris. In addition, the Legislative Counsel is experimenting with the use of the pilot statutory retrieval system developed by House Information Systems as part of their integrated law revision and retrieval system for the House of Representatives Law Revision Counsel. Statutory data for the system is supplied from the publication developed by the Government Printing Office.

POLICY ANALYSIS SUPPORT SYSTEMS (HICKS)

The objective of the policy analysis support systems is to provide computer data bases with analytical and reporting capabilities which Senators and committees may draw upon in the analysis of policy issues. There are six major components.

PROGRAM REVIEW SYSTEM

The Program Review System is an on-line computer system operated on the Senate computer using visual display terminals in committee offices. The Program Review System supports Senate committees in the congressional budget process, the authorization process, and the program review and oversight processes. The system was developed initially for the Committee on Labor and Human Resources as a prototype for eventual use by other committees and is now used by six other committees.

Through use of the Program Review System committees can (1) establish and maintain computer data bases of information about the financial and performance aspects of programs within their jurisdiction, (2) perform comparative and statistical analyses of the data in order to discern relationships and to test hypotheses about the effects of alternate program levels, and (3) produce printed reports from the data base using on-line printers in committee offices or the high-speed printers in the central computer room.

The system provides the following capabilities:

1. Loading committees' files from other data sources such as OMB's Budget Preparation System, GAO's Legislative and Program Information System, and CBO's Projections System;

2. Addition, deletion, modification, and display of records using visual display terminals located in committee offices;

3. Printing reports on printers located in committee offices or on the high speed line printer or the Xerox 9700 high speed page printer in the computer center;

4. Specifying, through a record created at the visual display terminal, characteristics of individualized reports such as

a. the records to be included or excluded, based on components of the record identification number, fund type, committee jurisdiction, user codes, and column values. (Records within or outside ranges of values can be selected or excluded.);

b. the sort sequence, using key fields of the record identification number, user codes and a column value;

c. subtotaling (up to 15 levels) using key fields of the record identification number and user codes;

d. selection of up to 40 columns from the 500 column data base; e. page headings;

f. rounding;

g. page number prefixes and beginning numbers;

h. printing subtotal and total lines only;

5. Creation of calculated columns based on mathematical operations involving columns or columns and constants. Calculations can be performed on all records in a data base or only on subsets of a data base. Subsets can be defined by components of the record identification number (for example, agency), committee jurisdiction codes, fund type, user codes, and column values. Records can be included in or excluded from the subset using equal, not equal, greater than, or less than conditions, singly or in combination; and 6. Transfer of data between data bases.

In budget related applications central "read-only" data bases are established containing all budget accounts, and containing approximately 400 amount fields from the OMB tape. Re-estimates are added to the data bases when they are received in April and July. Committees copy the desired columns to their own data bases as needed. This simplifies committees' file management operations and frees up space in their data bases. Committees can also prepare individualized reports from the central data bases.

Work with GAO, committees, and agencies regarding compilation of a program inventory continues. Revisions based on interaction between committees and agencies are expected to continue for some time. The GAO data collection process has stabilized, although some agencies continue to have difficulty meeting the submission dates necessary for program data to reach committees in time for use in consideration of their March 15 reports. Loading program data received on computer tape from GAO to committees' PRS data bases has been routinized.

Future work includes addition of outlays from the Treasury Department; addition of CBO current status information; printing individualized reports at committee's on-line printers; initiation of batch print jobs from the display terminal; graphic output on committees' online display terminals and printers; and output of PRS data bases to the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) and the Decision Information Display System (DIDS).

BUDGET ANALYSIS SYSTEM

The reports in the Budget Analysis System are produced from the OMB Budget Preparation System tapes upon release of the President's budget recommendations in January, March, and July. Special runs are made as requested.

The purpose of the Budget Analysis System is to extract and resequence information on the Budget Preparation System tapes to display information about the budget recommendations and re-estimates not reflected in published budget documents. The BAS reports have been distributed to committees and legislative staff agencies for the past five years and to Senators' offices requesting them for two years. Analysis reports can be prepared using such elements as:

1. organizational unit (agency or bureau);

2. object classification (personnel, rent, etc.);

3. function or subfunction;

4. fund type (trust funds, public enterprise funds, etc.);

5. new vs. existing programs;

6. receipt types (general fund, proprietary, etc.);

7. program and financing schedule resource measures;

8. outlays by source of budget authority (obligated balances, unobligated balances, etc);

9. controllable vs. uncontrollable spending; and

10. authorizing and spending committee jurisdiction.

A Directory of BAS Reports is available to requesting offices. The Directory includes a description and a sample page for each report.

The Program Review System is also used to prepare special reports requested by Senators and Committees, such as exploration of the effects of different percentage changes in selected object classes, functions, and accounts.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

The two principal uses of the statistical analysis capability are: (1) tabulation and analysis of constituent surveys by Senators, either multiissue surveys or in-depth surveys on a single issue; and (2) analysis of results of surveys conducted by, or of other data acquired by committees. The latter are typically related to a particular commerical, industrial, consumer, or other group associated with a policy issue. Standard business graphs (bar charts, pie charts, scatter diagrams, curves) can be prepared in support of surveys and investigations.

Statistically reliable results are sought through the use of scientifically selected samples and follow-up of non-responses. The Planning and Survey Research Section of the CRS General Government Division, the staff of the Senate Computer Center's Statistical Analysis Section, and the Rules Committee's Technical Services staff work together in assisting committees' and Senators' offices in sample selection, design of survey instruments, and interpretation of results.

Standard procedures have been developed for handling survey questionnaires, follow-up letters, and responses. Copies are available on request.

POLICY ANALYSIS DATA BASES

Policy Analysis Data bases are special purpose files maintained and updated by committees. Some include facilities for adding experimental data or formulas in order to observe the probable results of alternate policies. Current policy analysis data bases include:

1. Manpower request analysis. For comparisons and trend analyses of military and civilian strengths submitted by the Department of Defense.

2. Countercycle revenue sharing. For testing the effects of alternate versions of revenue sharing formulas.

3. Corporate ownership and control. For exploring the nature and extent of interlocking directorates among major corporations. 4. Consulting contracts. An information file on contracts approved by the Rules Committee for studies conducted for committees.

5. Document abstracts. Specialized abstract indexing systems developed for committee use on specific projects when large