You can pull the numbers together with some creative searching on Thomas.
Select Bill Summary and Status.
Select introduced/orginated in House from item 4, State in Legislative
Process
Select on or after 10/15/2002 from item 5, Date of Introduction
You get a list of all bills and resolutions in the House and the highest
number for each category:
House Concurrent Resolutions: 514
House Resolutions: 595
House Joint Resolutions: 123
House bills: 5703
Do the same thing with Introduced/originated in the Senate and add the
numbers. The total may not be exact, but if the Clerk of the House can't
come up with a number, this may be as close as you can get.
Another approach on Thomas is to use the Browse Bill Summary and Status,
Legislation, http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d107/d107bill.html
Here you can select each type of bill and resolution and get the total
number of each.
Senate Concurrent Resolutions: 154
Senate Resolutions: 354
Senate Joint Resolutions: 51
Senate bills: 3142
Cheryl Nyberg
Reference Librarian
Gallagher Law Library
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98105
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Michael Choe wrote:
> I'm interested in finding out the number of bills and
> joint resolutions that have been introduced so far in
> the 107th Congress. Thomas.gov won't return more than
> 5000 results. The Calendars of the U.S. House of
> Representatives and History of Legislation doesn't
> have this information, at least not until the end of a
> session. I looked at the House and Senate Journals
> and the Congressional Record previously, and I don't
> recall them having a running total of the number of
> measures introduced. I spoke to a couple of people at
> the U.S. House clerk's office and they didn't have an
> answer. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Michael Choe
> Internal Revenue Service
> Austin Service Center
> michael.d.choe@irs.gov
>
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