Silly season on Capitol Hill. It’s that special time of year when Congress nears the end of its scheduled session and decides to do all its work at once. Dozens of bills fly across the House floor with little debate.

They’re not all bad bills, but nothing prevented Congress from addressing them at a careful pace all through the winter, spring, and summer.

This year has been particularly silly, as Congress didn’t even try to follow its annual budgeting and spending process. It just passed a temporary measure on the fly, funding the government through the first half of the fiscal year in one big bill.

Then along came the financial services crisis. (Or is it a “crisis”? I’m less and less sure that it’s a crisis for anyone more than the investment bankers who overextended themselves.)

Smack dab at the end of the session, right when members want to go home and campaign, they have to think about a $700 bailout of the financial services industry. (Text of the proposal that failed Monday is here.)

Congress comes back Thursday - maybe to consider another bailout proposal. Don’t lose focus on that issue just yet!

But for the moment, let’s take a look at some of what the Congress did while we focused on everything else that Congress was doing. These are the bills that went to the floor of the House of Representatives on Saturday. The bills that were on the House floor last Thursday and Friday are here and here. Monday’s bills coming soon:

H.R. 7084
To amend section 114 of title 17, United States Code, to provide for agreements for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings by webcasters

H.R. 7177
To authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain foreign recipients, and for other purposes

S. 2816
A bill to provide for the appointment of the Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department of Homeland Security by the Secretary of Homeland Security
Costs: $0.00 per family

S. 3597
A bill to provide that funds allocated for community food projects for fiscal year 2008 shall remain available until September 30, 2009

S. 3596
A bill to stabilize the small business lending market, and for other purposes

S. 2304
The Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2007
Costs: $4.35 per family

H.R. 6838
The CAMPUS Safety Act of 2008

H.R. 5571
To extend for 5 years the program relating to waiver of the foreign country residence requirement with respect to international medical graduates
Costs: $0.00

S. 3606
A bill to extend the special immigrant nonminister religious worker program and for other purposes

H.R. 1777

The Need-Based Educational Aid Act of 2007
Costs: $0.00 per family

H.R. 3174
The Equal Justice for Our Military Act of 2007

H.R. 6146
To amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit recognition and enforcement of foreign defamation judgments

S. 2840
The Military Personnel Citizenship Processing Act

H.R. 5057
The Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2008
Costs: $13.14 per family

S. 3296
A bill to extend the authority of the United States Supreme Court Police to protect court officials off the Supreme Court Grounds and change the title of the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice

S. 3598
A bill to amend titles 46 and 18, United States Code, with respect to the operation of submersible vessels and semi-submersible vessels without nationality

S. 1738
The Combating Child Exploitation Act of 2007
Costs $4.94 per family

S. 3605
A bill to extend the pilot program for volunteer groups to obtain criminal history background checks

S. 431
The Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2007
Costs $0.00 per family

S. 3325
The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008

H.R. 7175
The Small Business Financing Improvements Act of 2008

H.R. 6707
The Taking Responsible Action for Community Safety Act

H.R. 7081
The United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act

H.R. 928
The Improving Government Accountability Act

H.R. 2786
The Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2007
Costs: $21.47 per family

S. 3536
The Air Carriage of International Mail Act

H.R. 6669
To provide that claims of the United States to certain documents relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt shall be treated as waived and relinquished in certain circumstances

S. 3477
The Presidential Historical Records Preservation Act of 2008

H.R. 6600
The Medicare Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2008

H.R. 7082
The Inmate Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2008

H.R. 7083
The Charity Enhancement Act of 2008

H.R. 6063
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2008
Costs: $201.25 per family

S. 906
The Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2007
Costs: $0.04 per family

H.R. 5265
The Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008

S. 3560
The QI Program Supplemental Funding Act of 2008

H.R. 1283
The Arthritis Prevention, Control, and Cure Act of 2007

H.R. 6460
The Great Lakes Legacy Reauthorization Act of 2008
Costs: $5.80 per family

H.R. 6999
The Integrated Deepwater Program Reform Act of 2008

S. 2482
A bill to repeal the provision of title 46, United States Code, requiring a license for employment in the business of salvaging on the coast of Florida
Costs: $0.00 per family

H.R. 3068
The Federal Protective Service Guard Contracting Reform Act of 2007
Costs: $0.00 per family