With Congress out of session until Sept. 9, several lawmakers expressed their willingness to return early: I've been urging Speaker to call us back into session — it is essential that we be called back into session immediately.
The Senate broke an impasse over the $26 billion measure last week and sent it to the House, which was called back into session by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to approve the bill.
President Viktor Yanukovych, meanwhile, in a meeting with religious leaders, promised to shake up the cabinet next week when parliament is called back into session — although the opposition has demanded its dismissal.
The Senate should avoid tinkering with the Assembly version since the Assembly adjourned long ago and would have to be called back into session to pass a modified bill.
Except, as columnist Irwin Stelzer points out, for one constitutional loophole: a lame-duck Congress called back into session between the elections this November and the swearing-in of the 112th Congress next January.
CHICAGO — Illinois lawmakers will be called back into session next week, which is earlier than expected, in an effort to expedite impeachment proceedings against Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, and, ultimately, some said, to prevent his appointee from becoming the state's next United States senator.
If there were an emergency that required immediate action, Congress could be called back into session.
House Speaker Paul Ryan's office has said that the House will not be called back into session until Congress members operate "within the rules of the institution".
The governor said that the timing of any incentive package would be linked to the company's plans for the plant, and that it was unclear whether the state Legislature would have to be called back into session to approve the subsidies.
The Legislature will be called back into special session this month to deal with the issue, after more facts have been collected, the governor said.
The leader of the conservative Likud party, Ariel Sharon, warned on Tuesday that what he called his "Jerusalem Coalition" would "stand on guard," ready to call Parliament back into session if any agreement threatening Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem appeared likely.
