Editor’s Note: Running the numbers in Congress
A passing glance at the numbers that defined Congress this week
The number of things about Congress to keep track of is staggering, so every so often we’ll boil it down to just a few, ahem, numbers. For the record, or your amusement, or both, here is a small quantitative batch that helped shape the legislative branch for the week of June 3-7, 2024.
- 1: New member sworn in, Rep. Vince Fong, R-Calif.
- 2: Appointments (Reps. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and Ronny Jackson, R-Texas) to the House Intelligence Committee made by Speaker Mike Johnson.
- 2: Leaders of immediately aforementioned committee (House Intelligence Chairman Michael R. Turner, R-Ohio, and ranking member Jim Himes, D-Conn.) who found out about Perry and Jackson joining their committee from press reports.
- 3: White House statements of administration policy released, regarding S. 4381 – the “Right to Contraception Act”; H.R. 8282 – “The Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act”; and H.R. 8580 — Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies appropriations.
- 4: Months in prison Steve Bannon was ordered by a federal judge to start serving by July 1.
- 8: Roll call votes in the Senate.
- 12: Pages in a House Ethics Committee report (along with two appendices covering another 370 pages combined) that found Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., violated House rules related to campaign finance recordkeeping but closed the inquiry, saying better guidance for members of Congress was needed about such things.
- 14: Republican senators who by Friday afternoon had signed a letter spearheaded by Utah Sen. Mike Lee to block all administration nominees and legislation, in retaliation for a New York jury finding former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts stemming from a plan to illegally influence the 2016 election.
- 15: Roll call votes in the House.
- 50: Cent, as in Curtis Jackson, who was on Capitol Hill advocating increased minority representation in the luxury spirits industry.
- 500: Dollar bill that Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., has introduced legislation to create, which would feature Trump’s portrait.
Jason Dick is the editor-in-chief of CQ Roll Call.