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
618 bills · latest action first
- H.R. 1157Passed HouseCountering the PRC Malign Influence Fund Authorization Act of 2023
- H.R. 2864Passed HouseCountering CCP Drones Act
- H.R. 4741Passed HouseSecuring Global Telecommunications Act
- H.R. 510Passed HouseChinese Currency Accountability Act of 2023
- H.R. 5245Passed HouseScience and Technology Agreement Enhanced Congressional Notification Act of 2024
- H.R. 554Passed HouseTaiwan Conflict Deterrence Act of 2023
- H.R. 6606Passed HouseTo amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating to the statement of policy.
- H.R. 6614Passed HouseMaintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act
- H.R. 7089Passed HouseGlobal Anti-Human Trafficking Enhancement Act
- H.R. 7151Passed HouseExport Control Enforcement and Enhancement Act
- H.R. 7159Passed HousePacific Partnership Act
- H.R. 7404Passed HouseSubterranean Border Defense Act
- H.R. 7589Passed HouseROUTERS Act
- H.R. 7592Passed HouseTo direct the Librarian of Congress to promote the more cost-effective, efficient, and expanded availability of the Annotated Constitution and pocket-part supplements by replacing the hardbound versions with digital versions.
- H.R. 7593Passed HouseModernizing the Congressional Research Service’s Access to Data Act
- H.R. 7686Passed HouseTo amend the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to clarify the definition of foreign country for purposes of malign foreign talent recruitment restriction, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 7701Passed HouseNo Russian Tunnel to Crimea Act
- H.R. 8152Passed HouseRemote Access Security Act
- H.R. 8333Passed HouseBIOSECURE Act
- H.R. 8631Passed HouseDecoupling from Foreign Adversarial Battery Dependence Act
- H.R. 8663Passed HouseDETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act of 2024
- H.R. 4763Passed HouseFinancial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act
- H.R. 8361Passed HouseEconomic Espionage Prevention Act
- S. 211Passed SenateSMART Leasing Act
- S. 2781Passed SenateGood Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2024
Congress.gov bill status · 118th at month 22 · 25 bills a page · cosponsors and word counts are the latest on file