The Legislative Accountability Filter

19,249 bills and resolutions logged. 10,608 H.R. bills. 5,551 S. bills. Only 113 enacted under their own number — 0.6%. The stages below show where the rest disappear — and who benefits. · Source: govinfo BILLSTATUS, frozen Q3 snapshot, actions on or before September 26, 2026 · 119th Congress · Last Updated: September 26, 2026 · Version 4.2 · Built 26 October 2026 from the Q3 snapshot. Incorporation and omnibus figures are older and dated where they appear.

Legislative Sequence · 13 Stages

Entry
01

Bill Introduction & Logging

19,249 total · 10,608 H.R. · 5,551 S.
House
02

Committee Assignment

16,431 assigned, no further action · 1,324 reported
03

Committee Markup

1,324 reported · 11% historical rate
04

Rules Committee

House only · controls floor conditions
05

House Floor Vote

679 passed House · 30 failed · 2 vetoed
The Money Layer
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ROI

Return on Investment

Operates at every stage simultaneously
Senate
07

Senate Introduction

679 passed House · 148 passed Senate
08

Senate Committee Markup

5,551 S. bills · same 11% rate
09

Senate Floor Vote

18 failed cloture · 4 later became law
Convergence
10

Conference / Omnibus

301 absorbed into omnibus vehicles (April figure)
11

Presidential Action

88 bills + 25 joint resolutions signed · 2 vetoed
12

Regulatory Implementation

Second capture opportunity
13

Becomes Law

113 under their own number · 0.6% of 19,249
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The Capture Pattern

38 days vs 377 days — same Congress

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Select any stage in the process to reveal the structural forces, choke point data, and citizen accountability tools at that stage.

1 of this page’s figures does not reconcile with another

Restated 26 October 2026 from the frozen Q3 snapshot: govinfo BILLSTATUS, actions on or before September 26, 2026. Seven of the eight pairs disclosed on 28 September now reconcile. One does not:

bills absorbed into omnibus vehicles — 236 (stage 6 stat 1) against 301 (stage 10 stat 1). Both are 14 April 2026 figures from GovTrack’s incorporation filter. The snapshot carries no bill-to-vehicle relationships, so neither can be restated from it, and neither is changed.
the failure counts are a new series — they use the definitions printed beside them. By those definitions 15 bills had failed cloture by 14 April 2026, where the April page counted 10, so the two are not compared.

Listed rather than quietly corrected. Checked at build time on 26 October 2026 by cl009/release_cl009.py.