[Willie Green]

Please forgive the vanity.

I posted the above chart on another thread, and FReeper "Phantom Lord" said "I would like to see a similar chart that shows how many bills congress sent to the presidents desks for their signature and got it."

I did some searching on the Web, and I'm afraid I just couldn't come up with any information to answer this question. It really made me curious: How many bills DOES Congress pass in a typical session?

My guess is that it must be some mind-boggling number that they want to keep hushed-up out of sheer embarrassment.

[Willie Green]

bump FYI

(Dang! I don't know why the table messed-up
I used the same cut & paste HTML I used in the other thread and it came out OK.)

[Chad Fairbanks]

42?

Bttt...

[Phantom Lord]

With the number of federal laws it has to be a staggering number. Though it could be a small number (relatively) and each bill could be loaded up with hundreds to thousands of items. After all, how many damn "riders" and other things are added to bills that have nothing to do with the original bill.

[hoot2]

"How many bills DOES Congress pass in a typical session? "

legally, or illegally?

[Ken H]

There was a thread that dealt with this a while back, about two months ago if I'm not mistaken.

I think the number was something like 4000, although that figure may represent both laws passed and new Federal regulations imposed by bureaucrat agencies.

[JZoback]

How many bills are passed by Congress in a typical session?

If the answer is more than "0", it's one to many

Except for constitutional mandated duties, of course

[socal_parrot]

Here's a scary fact I found while trying to find an answer for you.

"Of 44,195 bills passed by Congress in over 200 years, only 3,163 were passed in its first 50 years and 41 percent were passed in the last 50 years. "

[Militiaman7]

TOO MANY!