Mexican journalists speak of la congeladora, “the freezer,” for bills that wait without a vote. In February 2023, Expansión reported that the Congress of Mexico City had more than 1,000 initiatives “en la ‘congeladora'” (in the “freezer”).
In January 2024, El Financiero reported that the federal Chamber of Deputies had received 6,389 initiatives in its current legislature. It had approved 618 and rejected 266, and 5,030 were pending. Of an earlier legislature, Expansión wrote: “la mayoría ni siquiera se desecha, simplemente queda pendiente” (most are not even rejected, they simply remain pending).