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111th Congress, 1st Session – 2009 Published Schedules

This information is included with the course materials at TCN's Congress in a Nutshell program.

The House and Senate schedules are adopted from the schedules published by the House and by the Senate. CQ Today was also used as a source. 

Senate
2009 published schedule

2009 Holidays &
Special Events

House
2009 published schedule
  January 1
New Year's Day
 
January 6 Senate Convenes January 8
Electoral College Count
January 6 House Convenes
  January 19
Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 20
Inauguration
 
  January 29-30 House Republican Retreat
February 2 
President's Budget released*

February 12 Lincoln's Birthday

February 5-6 House Democratic Retreat
February 14 - 22 District Work Period February 16  Presidents' Day February 14 - 22 Presidents' Day District Work Period
  March 8 Daylight Savings Time begins (spring forward)  
April 4 - 19 District Work Period, Easter

April 8 Passover begins at sundown

April 10  Good Friday

April 12  Easter

April 4 - 19 Spring District Work Period
May 23 - 31 District Work Period, Memorial Day May 25  Memorial Day May 23 - 31 Memorial Day District Work Period
  June 14   Flag Day  
June 27 - July 5 District Work Period, Independence Day July 4   Independence Day June 27 - July 5 Independence Day District Work Period
August 8 - September 7 District Work Period

September 7 Labor Day

August 1 - September 7 Summer District Work Period
September 8 Senate Reconvenes   September 8 House Reconvenes
  September 18 Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown

September 28  Yom Kippur

October 1  FY 2010 begins

October 12 Columbus
Day

 
TBD Target Senate Adjournment November 1 Daylight Savings Time ends (fall back) October 30 Target House Adjournment
  November 11  Veteran's Day observed

November 26 Thanksgiving Day

December 11  Hanukkah begins at sundown

December 25  Christmas Day

 

* The president is required by law (31 USC 1105) to submit his annual budget proposal to Congress by the first Monday in February. In a new administration, the president typically submits a placeholder document and fills in the details some weeks later.  See "Submission of the President's Budget in Transition Years," by Robert Keith, CRS Report for Congress RS20752, September 15, 2008 (6-page pdf ). Also see our course, The President's Budget.

Sources: US Senate, US House of Representatives, CQ Today, December 9, 2008.  2009 Federal Holidays from OPM

 

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URL:  TheCapitol.Net/FAQ/cong_schedule.htm      Last updated: June 26, 2009

 



 


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