Introduced yesterday and up on the site today, the omnibus spending bill is H.R. 1105.
We’ve been waiting to get a look at it for weeks. The version posted online yesterday was in a hard-to-use format, but it is now available in at least a printer-friendly format. (Go here and click on “read the bill.”)
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The 111th Congress didn’t waste any time. Over 600 bills were introduced last week, its first week of action.
The full tally of measures introduced is actually 740, but that includes non-substantive bills, housekeeping measures, and such. (We only display the substantive stuff – and we exclude bills to rename post offices too. [...]
More than 350 bills were introduced in Congress on its first day yesterday. At that rate, we’ll easily rocket past 10,000 bills, and past the last Congress’ record of over 11,000 bills. (And of course that rate won’t actually continue.)
We’ll be adding the new bills to the database throughout the day, but what [...]
New bills introduced in the Senate yesterday! (Bringing the tally even higher.)
S. 3718
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the taxation of unemployment compensation for 2 years
S. 3719
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the minimum required pension distribution rules for 2008, 2009, and 2010
S. [...]
A new bill in the Senate would outlaw the selling and counterfeiting of tickets to the inauguration.
D’ya actually think it was legal before? No, counterfeiting and selling tickets to an event like that is common law fraud, which is illegal everywhere.
But it’s nice to see some new bills after so many weeks off. [...]