Regulations and Government
Congressional Observer: May 2002
Congress took its own spring break, leaving March 21 to 23 and returning the second week of last month.

Congress took its own spring break, leaving March 21 to 23 and returning the second week of last month. By March 23 the box score on bills submitted was 2,073 in the Senate and 4,081 in the House.

Before the break, the campaign-finance reform bill, pushed by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), was passed and subsequently signed into law by President Bush without much fanfare. There was so little fanfare that Bush did not invite McCain to the signing ceremony, choosing instead to have an aide telephone the senator with the news.