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46 bills referred in the 113th Congress

357 across the 13 Congresses on file, most in the 112th at 48. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 107th to 119th

Members

Served in the 113th Congress

Members, 113th Congress 22

Everyone who held a seat in the 113th Congress, leaders first, with the day they joined or left when it was not with the rest.

Seat	Member	Role
D-WA	Patty Murray	Chair
R-AL	Jeff Sessions	Ranking Member
I-ME	Angus S. King Jr.
I-VT	Bernard Sanders
D-FL	Bill Nelson
D-DE	Christopher A. Coons
R-IA	Chuck Grassley
D-MI	Debbie Stabenow
D-OR	Jeff Merkley
R-NH	Kelly Ayotte
R-SC	Lindsey Graham
D-VA	Mark R. Warner
R-WY	Michael B. Enzi
R-ID	Mike Crapo
R-PA	Patrick J. Toomey
R-OH	Rob Portman
R-MS	Roger F. Wicker
R-WI	Ron Johnson
D-OR	Ron Wyden
D-RI	Sheldon Whitehouse
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin
D-VA	Tim Kaine

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 113th Congress.

Newest activity first. In the 113th Congress.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
S 2905	Carbon Pollution Transparency Act of 2014	Referred To	Sep 19, 2014
SRES 562	A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that performance-based contracts for energy savings are a budget-neutral means to support the Federal Government in reducing its energy consumption without increasing spending while simultaneously supporting United States based jobs and economic development.	Referred To	Sep 18, 2014
S 2658	Accelerating Biomedical Research Act	Referred To	Jul 24, 2014
S 2495	One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2014	Referred To	Jun 19, 2014
S 2446	Truth in Obamacare Accounting Act	Referred To	Jun 5, 2014
S 2420	Budget and Accounting Transparency Act of 2014	Referred To	Jun 3, 2014
S 2371	Accurate Budgeting Act	Referred To	May 21, 2014
HCONRES 96	Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2015 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2016 through 2024.	Discharged From	Apr 11, 2014

The published transcripts, newest first, from GovInfo. In the 113th Congress.

Hearing	Title	Held
S. Hrg. 113-667	Nomination of the Hon. Shaun L. S. Donovan, of New York, to Be Director of Office of Management and Budget106 pages 1 witness Donovan, Shaun, of New York, Nominee to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Jun 11, 2014
S. Hrg. 113-519	Mid-Session Hearings for Fiscal Year 2015Held Apr 1, 2014 to Jul 29, 2014 · 562 pagesOn H.R. 517	Apr 1, 2014
S. Hrg. 113-518	Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2015Held Feb 4, 2014 to May 8, 2014 · 428 pagesOn S. 1, S. 3	Feb 4, 2014
S. Hrg. 113-897	The Nomination of Brian C. Deese, of Massachusetts, to Be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget67 pages 1 witness Deese, Brian, of Massachusetts, Nominee to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget	May 21, 2013
S. Hrg. 113-231	TASK FORCE HEARINGS - Silo Busting: Effective Strategies for Government Reorganization and Enhancing Accountability and Increasing Financial TransparencyHeld May 16, 2013 to Sep 18, 2013 · 161 pages 7 witnesses Stanley J. Czervinski, Director, Strategic Issues-US Government Accountability Office Honorable Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General, US Government Accountability Office Honorable John P. Holdren, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Gerald J. Kane, Assistant Vice President for Research Administration University of VA Thomas Lee, Director of Sunlight Labs, Sunlight Foundation Honorable Nicole S. Poore, Senator, Delaware General Assembly; and Chair, Delaware Joint Sunset Committee David Rosenbloom, Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, The American Unversity	May 16, 2013
S. Hrg. 113-230	The Nomination of the Honorable Sylvia Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, to Be Director of the Office of Management and Budget99 pages 1 witness The Honorable Joe Manchin Iii, A United States Senator From The State Of West Virginia	Apr 10, 2013
S. Hrg. 113-229	Budget Committee Mid-Session Hearings Fiscal Year 2014Held Feb 13, 2013 to Sep 24, 2013 · 782 pages 30 witnesses Honorable Gary D. Alexander, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare..............................................37, Joseph Antos, PhD.,Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute.............672, Jared Bernstein, PhD., Senior Fellow, Center for Board of Governors and Policy Priorities..............................229, Jennifer Cari Green, Secretary, Neurosurgery and Plastic Surgery Services, Madison Army Medical Center, Representing the Aerican Federation of Government Employees...........................576, Anthony P. Carnevale, PhD, Director and Research Professor Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce..107, Shavon Collier, Parent, Edward C. Mazique Parent Child Center, Inc..........................................................514, Veronique DeRugy, PhD., Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University...................................305, Thomas Donnelly, Resident Fellow and Co-Director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research...................................591, Stephen L. Ferguson, Chairman, Cook Group, Inc.................129, Salim Furth, Senior Policy Analyst in Macroeconomics Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation 2, 415.................. Robert Greenstein, President, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.....................................................20, Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics 1, 404................................. Edward D. Kleinbard, Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law...............................186, Mark N. Klett, President and Chief Executive Officer, Klett Consulting Group, Inc. 2, 564.................................. Bruce Lesley, Director, First Focus............................475, Michael Linden, Managing Director for Economic Policy, Center for American Progress............................................278, Adam Looney, PhD., Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institute....................................................297, David R. Malpass, President, ENCIMA Global, LLC................140, Tara Marks, ADA, OHIO............................................ 7, Allan H. Meltzer, PhD., Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Political Economy, Tepper School of Business 4, 756............ David Muhlhalusen, PhD., Research Fellow in Empirical Policy Analysis The Heritage Foundation.............................520, Patrick Murray, Arlington, VA....................................14, Len. M. Nichols, PhD., Director and Professor Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University............................630, Magaret Nimmo Crowe, Interim Executive Director, Voices for Virginia's Children..........................................508, Kavita Patel, MD, MS, Fellow and Managing Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institute.......652, Hunter R. Rawlings, III, PhD., President, Association of American University...................................................100, Russell Roberts, PhD., Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Standard University..........................................245, Honorable Polly Trottenberg, Under Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation...................................92, Baker Spring, F.M. Kirby, Research Fellow in National Security Policy, THe Heritage Foundation..............................583, Chad Stone, PhD., Chief Economist, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities...................................................741, Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University, Professor, Harvard University....................346, Honorable Robert O. Work, Chief Executive Officer, Center for a New American Security........................................568, Robert L. Woodson, Sr., President, Center for Neighborhood Enterprise.....................................................50, Mark Zandi, PhD., Chief Economist, Moody's Analytics...........724,	Feb 13, 2013
S. Hrg. 113-228	Concurrent Resolution on the Budget Fiscal Year 2014Held Feb 12, 2013 to Jun 18, 2013 · 489 pagesOn S. 3, S. 4, S. 5, S. 12, S. 13 and 1 more	Feb 12, 2013

Referred to this committee for confirmation, newest first, with the outcome and the latest action. In the 113th Congress.

Nomination	Nominee and post	Outcome	Received
PN1737	Shaun L. S. Donovan, of New York, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Sylvia Mathews Burwell.Executive Office of the President	Confirmed Jul 10, 2014Confirmed by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 75 - 22. Record Vote Number: 221.	Jun 2, 2014
PN262	Brian C. Deese, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Heather A. Higginbottom, resigned.Executive Office of the President	Confirmed Jun 27, 2013Confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote.	Apr 8, 2013
PN188	Sylvia Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Jacob J. Lew, resigned.Executive Office of the President	Confirmed Apr 24, 2013Confirmed by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 96 - 0. Record Vote Number: 109.	Mar 7, 2013

Reports, rules and messages sent to Congress by agencies and the President, and petitions and memorials, referred to this committee. Newest first. In the 113th Congress.

Number	Communication	Referred
EC-6935	A communication from the Director, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled "OMB Sequestration Update Report to the President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2015"; to the Special Committee on Aging; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Appropriations; Armed Services; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; the Budget; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Energy and Natural Resources; Environment and Public Works; Select Committee on Ethics; Finance; Foreign Relations; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Indian Affairs; Select Committee on Intelligence; the Judiciary; Rules and Administration; Small Business and Entrepreneurship; and Veterans' Affairs.Executive communication	Sep 15, 2014
EC-6759	A communication from the President of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the designation as an emergency requirement all funding so designated by the Congress in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Resolution, 2014, pursuant to section 251 (b) (2) (A) (i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, for the following account: "Department of Defense-Procurement-Procurement, Defense-Wide"; to the Committee on the Budget.Executive communication	Sep 8, 2014
EC-6758	A communication from the Director, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to discretionary appropriations legislation; to the Committee on the Budget.Executive communication	Sep 8, 2014
EC-6757	A communication from the Director, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, transmitting, pursuant to law, a notification of the President's intent to exempt all military personnel accounts from sequester for fiscal year 2015, if sequester is necessary; to the Committee on the Budget.Executive communication	Sep 8, 2014
EC-6458	A communication from the Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled "Mid-Session Review of the Budget of the U.S. Government for Fiscal Year 2015"; to the Committees on Appropriations; and the Budget.Executive communication	Jul 16, 2014
PM-34	A message from the President of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget: Appendix, Analytical Perspectives, and Historical Tables, received during adjournment of the Senate on March 10, 2014; referred jointly, pursuant to the order of January 30, 1975 as modified by the order of April 11, 1986; to the Committees on Appropriations; and the Budget.Presidential message	Mar 10, 2014
PM-32	A message from the President of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2015; referred jointly, pursuant to the order of January 30, 1975 as modified by the order of April 11, 1986; to the Committees on Appropriations; and the Budget.Presidential message	Mar 4, 2014
EC-2626	A communication from the Director, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled "OMB Sequestration Update Report to the President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2014"; to the Committees on the Budget; and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.Executive communication	Sep 9, 2013

Reference documents the committee published: studies, compilations of law, rules. In the 113th Congress.

Print	Title	Text
S. Prt. 113-32	TAX EXPENDITURES Compendium of Background Material on Individual Provisions	PDF · Text
S. Prt. 113-12	Concurrent Resolution on the Budget Fy 2014	PDF · Text

By Congress

The committee's record in each Congress on file. Choose one to see the page as it stood then: its members, subcommittees and record. A dash means the official source has nothing that early, not that the committee did nothing.

Congress	Members	Bills referred	Reported	Became law	Reports	Meetings	Printed hearings	Nominations	Communications	Prints
119th2025–2026, sitting	22	26	3	2	1	13	3	3	18	0
118th2023–2024	21	27	2	0	2	42	44	0	17	3
117th2021–2022	22	28	1	0	0	18	16	4	7	4
116th2019–2020	21	32	4	1	1	12	6	2	39	2
115th2017–2018	25	29	3	0	0	—	5	2	48	3
114th2015–2016	22	35	3	0	2	—	5	0	31	2
113th2013–2014	22	46	3	0	0	—	8	3	18	2
112th2011–2012	24	48	1	0	0	—	5	1	11	1
111th2009–2010	26	28	3	0	0	—	11	2	4	4
110th2007–2008	23	14	3	0	0	—	7	1	3	2
109th2005–2006	23	16	5	1	1	—	8	2	6	1
108th2003–2004	23	9	3	0	0	—	3	0	11	1
107th2001–2002	23	19	4	0	1	—	4	0	47	0

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