“…From 1949 through 1994, CQ had over 12,000 write-ups on legislation and other congressional matters in the Almanacs . As I discussed above, several other scholars have used CQ to focus on different subsets of bills that receive serious consideration in Con gress (Bader 1997;Baumgartner et al 1997;Edwards, Barrett, and Peake 1997;Sinclair 1992Sinclair ,1995Sinclair ,1997Taylor 1998). …”