662 commendations.

Out of curiosity, I just did the math: 16% of all bills in last year’s regular General Assembly session were commending somebody or something. That’s actually more bills than Congress passed naming buildings after people in the past two years, though 25% of all of the 109th Congress’ output, as a percentage of bills passed, was dedicated to naming buildings. 11:30pm Update: I forgot the 270 “celebrating the life of”s, which places 24% of all GA output at such bills, or nearly the same percentage as Congress’.

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Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »