Legislation · 118th Congress · Nov 12, 2024
Where the 118th Congress’s bills stood at month 22
How far 15,699 bills had gotten
At month 22 · Nov 12, 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
15,699 bills · latest action first
- H.R. 9272In committeeCatastrophic Specialty Hospital Act of 2024
- H.R. 9273In committeeNew England Coastal Protection Act of 2024
- H.R. 9274In committeeSHAWL Act
- H.R. 9275In committeeEnd Kidney Deaths Act
- H.R. 9278In committeeTo amend section 5336 of title 31, United States Code, to provide existing small businesses with an additional year to file beneficial ownership information, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 9279In committeeShrinkflation Reduction Act
- H.R. 9280In committeeSave the Green to Gold Program Act
- H.R. 9281In committeeHelping Young Americans Save for Retirement Act
- H.R. 9282In committeeCounter SNIPER Act
- H.R. 9283In committee21st Century Wildlife Enhancement and Partnership Act
- H.R. 9286In committeeAccelerating DoD PFAS Cleanups Act of 2024
- H.R. 9287In committeeTo direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot program under which the Secretary shall use classified commercial shared spaces and professionalize industrial security protections for shared sensitive compartmented information facility and subject matter experts.
- H.R. 9288In committeePrioritizing PFAS-Free Cleaning Products Act
- H.R. 9289In committeeTo direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a Connected Vehicle Cybersecurity Center in the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 9290In committeeTo direct the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense and the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency to jointly provide to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a briefing on the plan of the Department of Defense to transition away from the Joint Regional Security Stacks, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 9291In committeeTo direct the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to Congress on the efforts of the Army to field passive multi-static radar detection technology for mobile counter-UAS systems, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 9292In committeeTo direct the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to Congress on the future role and structure of Multi-Domain Task Forces, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 9293In committeeTo direct the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on challenges relating to information operations, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 9294In committeeTo encourage the Secretary of the Army to support the implementation of hybrid-electric engine technology within the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle fleet, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 9295In committeeTo direct the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense to provide a briefing to Congress on security options for the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability program, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 9296In committeeNext Generation Civilian Leaders Program Act
- H.R. 9297In committeeSecure DOD Act
- H.R. 9298In committeeSWIM Act of 2024
- H.R. 9299In committeeIRAN Act
- H.R. 9300In committeeProtecting and Preserving Social Security Act
Congress.gov bill status · 118th at month 22 · 25 bills a page · cosponsors and word counts are the latest on file