When the Senate returns “from its summer break in September, lawmakers will have quite a full plate of legislation to address: 372 bills, to be exact,” The Hill reports.
That’s the number of bills passed by the House that are awaiting action in the Senate, according to an updated list provided to The Hill. It’s an increase of 82 bills from February, when The Hill first reported on the Senate’s stack of untouched legislation.
And with the midterm elections in high gear and partisan rancor already poisoning a potential lame-duck session after November, it’s likely most of the House-passed bills will stay on the shelf.
A large legislation gap between the House and Senate is not unusual; the Senate was designed, in the famous description by George Washington, as a cooling saucer. But food left out to cool too long will spoil, and so will federal legislation: By law, if a bill is not passed by both chambers in the same Congress, it must be re-introduced in January.
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Congress in Your Pocket
Well the first one that they had better take care of is the 5th extension.We are tired if the bull that the Senators are playing.Come November it is our turn to show you who’s boss