We are catching up quick to the past Senate in terms of amendments. We are also tearing through bills. IF this paced were maintained, queue backlog would be nonexistant. The most shocking think is that it sped up after an election.
We had a lot of controversial bills up at the same time, which are hard to get through when you have a body where only half are participating and the other half only show up to kill the progress of the working half. Since then we've had a lot more non-controversial bills, hence the quick pace.