The House has spent much of the last two months of this year trying to catch up on its work. It passed 22 bills in one recent day and held 13 committee meetings and hearings the day after.

All told, the House has passed 41 bills since the end of the government shutdown on Nov. 12. The legislation has addressed a bevy of matters ranging from strengthening the nation’s cybersecurity defenses, bolstering the protections of Americans’ civil liberties from intelligence agency investigatory activities, and upgrading the Small Business Administration‘s information technology systems.