[Whenifhow]

Bad enough the members wont read stuff, but it’s pretty awful when their high paid staffers wont even read it either. I guess the good news is the pro staffers will support a repeal and replace movement now !
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If you go to this link:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billsearch.xpd?q=111+congress

and select the congressional term (in the pulldown) and also type that into “Search For:”, then look below the line and it tells the total number of bills for that congressional term.

Eight previous sessions of Congress, going all the way back to 1993, averaged about 1853 bills per session. The 111th Congress’ session isn’t even finished yet and they’ve got 8970 bills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1993 - 1994: 103rd Congress = 1977 Bills

1995 - 1996: 104th Congress = 1817 Bills

1997 - 1998: 105th Congress = 1966 Bills

1999 - 2000: 106th Congress = 2229 Bills

2001 - 2002: 107th Congress = 1513 Bills

2003 - 2004: 108th Congress = 1659 Bills

2005 - 2006: 109th Congress = 1746 Bills

2007 - 2008: 110th Congress = 1922 Bills

2009 - 2010: 111th Congress = 8970 Bills

If this isn’t an eye-opener that they’re “transforming” our nation for the worst, I don’t know what is!!!!!

[screaminsunshine]

They have been making law after law after law 24/7 for 50 years. It is insane. We need a con-con to eliminate all this crap.

[Humble Servant]

Holy crap. Good info.

[philman_36]

While that's scary the real nightmare is in how many bills become public law.

For previous Congresses...Public and Private Laws: Search
(choose the Congress you want >Submit, then choose the "110_cong_public_laws' text" link for the 110th, etc. - 460 total public/private laws)
Public and Private Laws: Main Page
For this Congress...so far...
Authenticated Public and Private Laws: Browse 111th Congress
147 as of Mar. 18, 2010

[philman_36]

The Health Care Bill was P.L. (Public Law) 111-148 and hasn't been entered on the gpo site yet.

[philman_36]

It's up to 156 here...
Current Session Public Law Numbers

[philman_36]

And you have to wonder if anyone read H.R.4872 Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 which became P.L. 111-152.
Like SEC. 1002. about INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY