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While floor action often runs beyond dinnertime in busier periods, the Senate has been adjourning around 5:30 p.m.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our court has been adjourning from day to day, until Colonel Turchin should succeed in procuring counsel; but it is now in full blast.

From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by Beatty, John