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The Senate Calendar Still Is Not Updated to Reflect Canceled Recess

Official site and pdf still show chamber down for some state work period time

(Screen shot of Senate.gov/CQ Roll Call illustration)
(Screen shot of Senate.gov/CQ Roll Call illustration)
By Roll Call Staff
Posted July 23, 2018 at 1:44pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his chamber’s traditional August recess would be scrapped back on June 5, but that doesn’t mean the website or PDFs of the Senate calendar for the rest of the year have been updated more than one month later. 

The calendar on Senate.gov and its accompanying pdf still show the chamber will be out — a “state work period” in congressional parlance —for the bulk of August, starting on Aug. 6 and stretching to Sept. 3. 

(Screen shot of Senate.gov pdf/CQ Roll Call illustration)
(Screen shot of Senate.gov pdf/CQ Roll Call illustration)

Roll Call has an updated version of the calendar to reflect the enhanced presence in Washington: 

(CQ Roll Call)
(CQ Roll Call) 

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