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Jan 21, 2021 · More than four-in-ten bills that became law out of the 116th Congress (151 of 344, or 44%) were passed in the final two months of its two-year term. That’s the highest share of lame-duck legislation since at least the 93rd Congress of 1973-74, the first years of our analysis.
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Between 2009 and 2019, lawmakers introduced 62,230 pieces of legislation, and 2,993 of those received a vote.Ballotpedia monitors legislation that receives a vote and highlights the ones that we consider to be key to understanding where elected officials stand on the issues. Here are the criteria and questions we use to identify a key vote: 1. Impa...
U.S. Senate
1. U.S. House Motion 46(Block border wall emergency declaration) To block President Trump's declaration of an emergency at the U.S.-Mexican border, which allowed him to bypass Congress and re-allocate funds to build a border wall.Passed 59 to 41in the U.S. Senate on March 13th, 2019 1. Amendment to U.S. House Bill 3877(Impose budget caps and submit balanced budget amendment to the states) To impose caps on federal spending through 2029 that do not exceed $3.5 trillion a year, and to allow the...
U.S. House of Representatives
1. U.S. House Joint Resolution 46(Terminate border wall emergency declaration) To terminate President Trump's declaration of an emergency at the U.S.-Mexican border, which allowed him to bypass Congress and re-allocate funds to build a border wall.Passed 245 to 182in the U.S. House of Representatives on February 25th, 2019 1. U.S. House Bill 1644(Re-impose federal net neutrality rules) To reinstate Federal Communications Commission rules that would regulate Internet service providers as publi...
Bills and joint resolutions that have been enacted into law, by Public Law number and Congress.
Browse the legislation of the 116th U.S. Congress (2019-2020) by law, bill type, subject, bills vetoed, or committee report.
Rept. 116-647 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) — Accompanies: H.R.278 TO DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO CONVEY CERTAIN FACILITIES, EASEMENTS, AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY TO THE KENNEWICK IRRIGATION DISTRICT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Committee: House Natural Resources. COMMITTEE REPORT.
Forty-eight of those 102 bills became law, which marks the highest total among those sponsored by minority-party lawmakers in the data dating back to the early 1970s. Moreover, only two of those laws from the 116 th Congress were commemorative in nature, with the rest dealing with substantive policy concerns.
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