Commemorative flag: 6% of laws in the 88th, 43% in the 99th
Source. Comparative Agendas Project, Public Laws; gaps where we treat the flag as unreliable
Method and data
Method. Flagged rows divided by CAP rows, counted from the dataset’s commemorative flag. The 111th (flag count of 5) and 115th (88 extra rows) are left blank as a judgment of ours. The CAP dataset ends in 2022.
| Congress | CAP rows | Flagged commemorative | Commemorative flag share (%) | Pew non-substantive (%) | Left blank because |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 664 | 42 | 6.3 | ||
| 89 | 809 | 48 | 5.9 | ||
| 90 | 639 | 33 | 5.2 | ||
| 91 | 693 | 65 | 9.4 | ||
| 92 | 606 | 42 | 6.9 | ||
| 93 | 647 | 55 | 8.5 | ||
| 94 | 588 | 44 | 7.5 | ||
| 95 | 631 | 57 | 9 | ||
| 96 | 612 | 102 | 16.7 | ||
| 97 | 473 | 106 | 22.4 | ||
| 98 | 623 | 213 | 34.2 | ||
| 99 | 662 | 284 | 42.9 | ||
| 100 | 713 | 278 | 39 | ||
| 101 | 650 | 258 | 39.7 | 37 | |
| 102 | 590 | 229 | 38.8 | ||
| 103 | 465 | 148 | 31.8 | ||
| 104 | 333 | 39 | 11.7 | ||
| 105 | 393 | 39 | 9.9 | ||
| 106 | 580 | 115 | 19.8 | ||
| 107 | 377 | 77 | 20.4 | ||
| 108 | 498 | 128 | 25.7 | ||
| 109 | 482 | 128 | 26.6 | ||
| 110 | 460 | 84 | 18.3 | 36 | |
| 111 | 383 | 5 | excluded: CAP flags only 5 laws, against 84 in the 110th and 67 in the 112th; we treat the flag as unreliable for this Congress (our judgment, not a source note) | ||
| 112 | 283 | 67 | 23.7 | 26.5 | |
| 113 | 296 | 76 | 25.7 | 28.4 | |
| 114 | 329 | 91 | 27.7 | 29 | |
| 115 | 530 | 106 | 31 | excluded: CAP has 88 more rows than the 442 public laws (repeated source IDs) | |
| 116 | 344 | 107 | 31.1 | 32 | |
| 117 | 362 | 108 | 29.8 |
