In Monday’s Go Home Already, we linked to a D.C. Wire story that was based on a press release from Eleanor Holmes Norton’s office touting today’s start of a 30-legislative day countdown on congressional intervention into D.C.’s same-sex marriage law. But in a subsequent correction to that release, Norton’s office now says the countdown actually began on Jan. 5, because the Senate held a pro forma session that day, and continued on Monday, when the House held a pro forma session. In other words, today is actually Day 3 of the 30-day countdown.
How many official legislative days we’ll actually see in a typical week during what is now an election year is harder to determine. Members of Congress running for re-election aren’t known for wanting to stick around on Fridays, the way they more often did last year. We’ll be looking for the 30-day review period to expire sometime in late February at the earliest, but more likely sometime in March.