THEME: LEG

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
April 4, 1993	5	THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW	Invent a creative piece of legislation based on skillfully juxtaposed names of actual U.S. senators and representatives.	LEG	Text file | Contest image	Carol Vance Jacki Drucker	Text file | Contest image (pub 4-18-93) Text file | Contest image (pub 4-25-93)
December 4, 1994	90	BILL US NOW	Come up with funny legislation based on the names of the 102 freshman congresspersons.	LEG	Text file | Contest image
November 17, 1996	192	HILL'S BILLS	Come up with bills any of the new members of Congress might jointly sponsor.	LEG	Text file | Contest image
November 15, 1998	296	BILL US LATER	Choose among the names of any of the newly elected U.S. senators or representatives and propose a bill they might sponsor.	LEG	Text file | Contest image
December 3, 2000	378 (XLV)	Bill Us Now	Come up with a bill sponsored by any of the newly elected U.S. senators and representatives, and explain the purpose of the bill.	LEG	Text file | Contest image
December 29, 2002	486 (CLIII)	A Word From Our Co-Sponsors	Come up with bills the new members of Congress might sponsor. Each bill must have at least two sponsors.	LEG	Text file | Contest image
December 26, 2004	590	Send Us the Bill	Come up with a bill sponsored by any combination of the newly elected members of Congress and explain the purpose of the bill.	LEG	Text file
January 7, 2007	696	Send Us the Bill	Come up legislation the newly-elected members of Congress might sponsor together.	LEG	Text file
January 10, 2009	799	Send Us the Bill	Come up with legislation that, given their names, two or more freshman senators or representatives might sponsor together.	LEG	Text file
March 20, 2010	861	It's incumbent upon us	Combine the names of two or more freshman members of Congress to create "joint legislation." This week's pool of legislators includes only those who were elected to their seats before 1994, the first year we ran the freshman contest.	LEG	Text file
January 15, 2011	903	Bill us now	Combine the names of two or more members of Congress as co-sponsors of a bill.	LEG	Text file | Post e-version
January 13, 2013	1005	Send us the bill	Name a piece of legislation "cosponsored" by two or more of the 98 new House and Senate members provided.	LEG	Text file | Post e-version
July 7, 2013	1028	Joint Legislation	Combine the names of two or more of the First Congress senators and/or representatives to create "joint legislation".	LEG	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 18, 2015	1107	Send us the bill	Combine two or more names from the list of members of Congress on this page to "cosponsor" a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose. (Conversational text)	LEG	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 15, 2017	1210	Send us the bill: Our 'joint legislation' game	Combine two or more names from the provided list of members of Congress to “co-sponsor” a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose. (Conversational text)	LEG	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 13, 2019	1314	Bill Us Now -- 'joint legislation'	Combine two or more names from the provided list of the new members of Congress to “co-sponsor” a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose	LEG	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 17, 2021	1419	Send us the bill -- 'joint legislation'	Combine two or more names from the provided list of the new members of Congress to “co-sponsor” a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose. (Conversational text)	LEG	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 4, 2021	1443	The letters of the laws	Propose some law -- it doesn't have to be a serious issue -- and give it a name and an acronym, (Conversational text)	LET LEG	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
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