Does anybody know how members of Congress shoose the numbers that go in front of pieces of legislation?

How do Congressmembers be it in the House of Representatives or the Senate choose the numbers that accompany each and every piece of proposed legislation as the title's of the Bills they are proposing? For example Congressman Ron Paul chose 1207 to go in front of the Audit The Federal Reserve Bill. What I was wondering is what is the significance to these numbers H.R. 1207 , S. 510, ect... or are these numbers chosen randomly?|||Members of Congress do not choose the numbers for a particular bill. In the House of Representatives, a representative may introduce a bill by placing a copy in a brown box called the "hopper". The Clerk of the House of Representatives enters the title of the bill into the journal which subsequently gets printed in the Congressional Record. When the Clerk does this, he assigns the bill a number.





The Senate process is similar. Bills are introduced by members when the bill is presented to one of the clerks of the Presiding Officer. The new bill is assigned a number at that time.





You can read more about the entire process at "How Our Laws are Made" http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.byse…