The first weeks of every First Regular Session is always marked by a frenetic filing of bills in both the House and the Senate. Some lawmakers file 50 or even 100 bills in one day. This may impress some new observers who’ll consider these lawmakers as very industrious and with keen legislative minds. Not this Congress Insider.

Look at the “new” bills filed and you’ll notice that they’re not actually new. I know for a fact that almost 100 percent of the bills filed before an inaugural session are dug up from the archives, the graveyard of measures not passed by the previous Congress. Thousands of bills are “buried” in the archives of the House and the Senate, just waiting to be resurrected from their grave by eager-beaver lawmakers. Indeed, why should these legislators wrack their brains thinking of novel pieces of legislation when there are many worthy measures waiting to be plucked from the archives?

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