Legislation · 118th Congress · Nov 11, 2024
Where the 118th Congress’s bills stood at month 22
How far 15,674 bills had gotten
At month 22 · Nov 11, 2024
12 of 106 were ceremonial (post-office namings, coins, designations).
92% of the 118th Congress’s bills had not left committee at month 22. 1 in 148 had become law.
Shortcuts and dead ends
How endings are recordedEndings
Veto upheld is part of vetoed. A count of 0 has no list to open. Skipped committee usually means suspension of the rules or unanimous consent; discharge is by House petition or Senate Rule XIV.
How far bills get, by lobbying
Each group by stage reached · colors as in the bar above
Bills that 5 or more organizations lobbied on got past committee about three times as often as bills with no lobbying on file.
Counts organizations that reported lobbying on a bill, once each, from filings made before the bill left committee. Only organizations with a PAC on file are counted (about 2,200), so universities, hospitals, local governments and most nonprofits are left out and “no lobbying on file” can include bills others lobbied on. Set aside: 106 must-pass bills (spending, defense, stopgap, budget) and the handful of bills lobbied by more organizations than almost any other (12 became law).
Lobbying disclosure filings public by that date · 118th at month 22 Method
How long they take
median days10th–90th
Half of the bills a committee approved got there within 125 days.
Medians use only bills that made the step.
Action dates · 118th at month 22 Method
How long they are
Words (each step is 10 times longer) · bills per bar
The median bill is 530 words; 3 are over 200,000.
Latest text version on file, which can be newer than this point in the Congress. 113 without text are left out; under 500 words is the first bar.
GovInfo bill text, latest version · 118th at month 22 Method
Every bill
14,384 bills · latest action first
- H.J.Res. 139Discussed in committeeProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relating to "Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting".
- H.J.Res. 163Discussed in committeeProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; and Repeal of the Affordable Clean Energy Rule".
- H.R. 1479Discussed in committeeChiricahua National Park Act
- H.R. 1504Discussed in committeeApex Area Technical Corrections Act
- H.R. 1605Discussed in committeeNatural Disaster Recovery Program Act of 2023
- H.R. 1720Discussed in committeeOcean Pollution Reduction Act II
- H.R. 2672Discussed in committeeFEMA Loan Interest Payment Relief Act
- H.R. 2892Discussed in committeeWARN Act
- H.R. 3149Discussed in committeeTo designate United States Route 20 in the States of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts as the "National Medal of Honor Highway", and for other purposes.
- H.R. 3227Discussed in committeeEnsuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act
- H.R. 3356Discussed in committeeMotor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization Act
- H.R. 3642Discussed in committeeExecutive Branch Accountability and Transparency Act
- H.R. 3988Discussed in committeeARTICLE ONE Act
- H.R. 4043Discussed in committeeTo amend the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to make the District of Columbia eligible for certain wastewater infrastructure grants, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 5300Discussed in committeeGAO Inspector General Parity Act
- H.R. 5536Discussed in committeeGrant Transparency Act of 2023
- H.R. 5623Discussed in committeeAddressing Addiction After Disasters Act
- H.R. 6083Discussed in committeeDuplications of Benefits Victims Relief Act
- H.R. 6116Discussed in committeeTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14280 South Military Trail in Delray Beach, Florida, as the "Benjamin Berell Ferencz Post Office Building".
- H.R. 6435Discussed in committeeMALDEN Act
- H.R. 670Discussed in committeeThink Differently Database Act
- H.R. 6984Discussed in committeeTo designate the Federal building located at 300 E. 3rd Street in North Platte, Nebraska, as the "Virginia Smith Federal Building", and for other purposes.
- H.R. 6997Discussed in committeeDisaster Contract Improvement Act
- H.R. 7158Discussed in committeeTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 East Battles Road in Santa Maria, California, as the "Larry Lavagnino Post Office Building".
- H.R. 7188Discussed in committeeShandra Eisenga Human Cell and Tissue Product Safety Act
Congress.gov bill status · 118th at month 22 · 25 bills a page · cosponsors and word counts are the latest on file