Congress is required to assemble at least once a year.
Congress meets every year from January 3rd to January 2nd of the following year.
Term of Congress The two-year period during which each Congress meets. Each term is said to last two years because new elections (for all members of the House and one-third of the senators) are held every two years; each term is the period in between those elections. January 2009 marks the beginning of the 111th term of Congress since the ratification of the Constitution.
No. Term- two year period of time during which congress meets.
Congress meets formally in a regular SESSION
A session of congress
Capital building
noon
congress meets in the white house in Washington, D.C
The 20th.
noon noon
the capital
the Congress
The terms of the Congress run for two full years; the Congress is said to be "in session" twice--at least once in every year, as required under the Constitution of the United States--during its respective terms. Approximately one out of every three members of the Senate is said to "stand for re-election" every two years; the entire membership of the House of Representatives stands for re-election every two years. Two years. The 111th Congress convened on January 3rd, 2009.