From Washington Straight

The 88th Congress, first session, has now established a record for longevity: no peacetime Congress has ever babbled on so long. There is even some talk that this session may not adjourn at all, but terminate only by smashing into the date set by law for convening the next session, January 3,1964. The record for a long Congress has stood only since the. session last year, which couldn’t bring itself to adjourn until October 13, despite the impending elections.

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