The relevant provision is Section 15, Article VI of the 1987 Consitution. It reads:
Section 15. The Congress shall convene once every year on the fourth Monday of July for its regular session, unless a different date is
The relevant provision is Section 15, Article VI of the 1987 Consitution. It reads:
Section 15. The Congress shall convene once every year on the fourth Monday of July for its regular session, unless a different date is fixed by law, and shall continue to be in session for such number of days as it may determine until thirty days before the opening of its next regular session, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. The President may call a special session at any time.
What is a regular session of Congress?
It may be termed as its “legislative year,” comparable to a calendar year of law-making functions, and supposedly all sub-functions that go with it. With a term of three years, each Congress has three regular sessions. (e.g. 13th Congress, First Regular Session was from July 2004 to 25 June 2005, the Second Regular Session, therefore starts on 25 of July 2005.)
What is the argument for ending all congressional inquiries at this time?
Since the First Regular Session is ending (or had ended last 25 July 2005), the committee which is a mere branch or limb of Congress already has no authority to conduct hearings. Simply put, when the tree is dead, so are its bra