Legislative Housekeeping, 118th Congress – 2-9-25

This week the GPO printed the text of one of the last two bills that I am tracking from the 118th Congress:

S 5468, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2024

The GPO is continuing to have problems keeping up with the number of bills being introduced in the 119^th Congress. There have been 1,864 bills introduced so far this session. I am currently tracking 30 of those bills. Only six of those bills have had the text printed (3 are disapproval resolutions that are extremely short). The earliest date of the bills without text is January 17^th. Interestingly, it seems that the backlog is worse in the House introduced bills than in those from the Senate, the oldest un-texted bill in the Senate that I am following is January 25^th.