Andrew Schmadel

Wikipedia: [List of defunct United States congressional committees](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_United_States_Congressional_committees#Defunct_Senate_committees) It'd be neat to turn the `committees-historical` document into a truly comprehensive listing.

More historical stuff (in a somewhat machine-parsable format) at [Charles Stewart's Congressional Data Page](http://web.mit.edu/17.251/www/data_page.html#0)

Interesting. It would _definitely_ be useful to get SUDOC numbers for each committee into this repository. ([Here's a place to start](http://www.fdlp.gov/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=265)) On the other hand, I don't see any inactive...

It's a Christmas Miracle!

The Senate Calendar includes a listing of committee assignments, and is available from fdsys as far back as 1996 (although it's PDF only prior to the 105th Congress). http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=CCAL&browsePath=107%2FSCAL%2F2002-11%2F11-20%5C%2F4%3BFINAL&isCollapsed=false&leafLevelBrowse=false&isDocumentResults=true&ycord=0

Aha, got it.

Hm. You could step through [hearing reports](http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=CHRG&browsePath=105%2FSENATE%2FCommittee+on+Appropriations&isCollapsed=false&leafLevelBrowse=false&isDocumentResults=true&ycord=100) on FDSys, which all have the supposedly-then-current committee membership attached to them. Parsing actually might be fairly easy (as far as these things...

If anybody wants to brute-force this, [Robert Byrd compiled](http://books.google.com/books?id=PeHByMYxVm8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0160632560&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xq4cUu_EEqi9sASwz4GQDA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false) one of the more comprehensive listings of old committees (and their chairpeople, but not members) that I've seen. The Senate historian...

Oh, and the Wikipedians [have compiled a good listing of resources](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_U.S._Congress/Committees) for researching historical committee information....

Maybe somebody should send Charles Stewart an email as a courtesy?