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Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Numbers, Numbers, Numbers

Posted by: Jim Martin

Congress did not adopt the practice of printing numbers on bills until the 19th century.  By the end of the end of the 16th Congress, both chambers assigned numbers to bills; however, neither chamber immediately assigned sequential numbers for bills throughout a congress.  The House of Representatives adopted this practice in 1818 during the second …