Poor Circulation and the Heart. When the veins and arteries that circulate blood throughout the body become occluded, or narrowed, with plaque, the heart must beat harder and faster in order to push blood past those areas of blockage.
A Term of the Supreme Court begins, by statute, on the first Monday in October. Usually Court sessions continue until late June or early July. The Term is divided between sittings, when the Justices hear cases and deliver opinions, and intervening recesses, when they consider the business before the Court and write opinions.
Each Congress lasts two years and is comprised of two sessions. The dates of Congress' sessions have changed over the years, but since 1934, the first session convenes on Jan. 3 of odd-numbered years and adjourns on Jan. 3 of the following year, while the second session runs from Jan. 3 to Jan. 2 of even-numbered years.