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MS NOW -  In the first year of the 119th Congress, the House held the fewest number of roll call votes in the first session in decades — 362, according to congressional records. The next two lowest on the list? The first year of the 102nd Congress, which held 439 roll call votes throughout 1991, and the 117th Congress, which held 449 throughout 2021. (Democrats controlled the chamber both of those years.)

By comparison, during the 118th Congress — when the GOP also controlled the House — the chamber cast 724 roll call votes in the first year, ranking among the busier first sessions of the past few decades...

Congressional data also shows that in the first year of the 119th Congress the second-fewest number of bills became law since at least the 1970s: 45. That is surpassed only by the 29 in the 118th Congress, when the GOP led the House and Democrats controlled the Senate and White House. (In the 1970s, some congresses saw upwards of 200 bills become law in the first year alone.)