2006
Calendar of Events
Congressional and Political Related
JANUARY
Monday,
January 2 - New Year's Day observance
Monday,
January 9 - Senate hearings begin on proposed Supreme
Court Justice Samuel Alito
Monday,
January 16 - Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday
Wednesday,
January 18 – Senate reconvenes
Tuesday,
January 31 – House reconvenes
Tuesday,
January 31 – Tentative date of the President’s
State of the Union address
FEBRUARY
Monday,
February 6 - Probable date for President to submit
annual budget to Congress
Thursday,
February 16 - Tuesday Feb. 28 - House Presidents’
Day recess
Friday,
February 17 - Monday Feb. 27 - Senate Presidents’
Day recess
Monday,
February 20 - Presidents’ Day holiday
MARCH
Friday,
March 17 - Monday, March 27 - Congressional St. Patrick’s
Day recess
APRIL
Friday,
April 7 - Monday, April 24 - Congressional Easter
recess
Thursday,
April 12 – Passover begins at sundown
Friday,
April 14 - Good Friday
Sunday,
April 16 - Easter Sunday
MAY
Tuesday,
May 2 - Ohio Senate Democratic primary between U.S.
Rep. Sherrod Brown and
Paul Hackett to face GOP incumbent Sen. Mike DeWine
Tuesday,
May 9 - Nebraska Senate Republican primary between
Don Stenberg, David
Kramer
and J. Peter Ricketts to face Democratic incumbent
Sen. Ben Nelson
Friday,
May 26 - Monday, June 5 – Congressional Memorial
Day recess
Monday,
May 29 - Memorial Day observance
JUNE
Tuesday,
June 6 - Montana Senate Democratic primary between
John Morrison, Jon Tester
and others to face GOP incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns
JULY
Friday,
June 30 - Monday, July 10 – Congressional Independence
Day recess
Tuesday,
July 4 - Independence Day
Friday,
July 28 - Tuesday, September 5 – House August
recess
AUGUST
Thursday,
August 3 – Tennessee Senate GOP primary between
Bob Corker, Ed Bryant and
Van Hilleary; Democratic primary between U.S. Rep.
Harold Ford and Rosalind
Kurita
Friday,
August 4 - Tuesday, September 5 - Senate August recess
SEPTEMBER
Monday,
September 4 - Labor Day
Tuesday,
September 12 – Maryland Senate Democratic primary
between Rep. Ben Cardin,
former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and others to
face GOP candidate
Michael Steele
Tuesday,
September 12 – Minnesota Senate Democratic primary
between Amy Klobuchar,
Patty Wetterling and others to face GOP candidate
Mark Kennedy.
Tuesday,
September 12 – Rhode Island GOP primary between
incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee
and Steve Laffey; Democratic primary between Matt
Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse
and Carl Sheeler
Friday,
September 22 - Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown
OCTOBER
Sunday,
October 1 - Fiscal Year 2007 begins
Sunday,
October 1 - Yom Kippur begins at sundown
Friday,
October 6 - Target Congressional adjournment day
Monday,
October 9 - Columbus Day
NOVEMBER
Tuesday,
November 7 - Election day
Friday,
November 10 - Veterans Day observed
Saturday,
November 11 - Veterans Day
Thursday,
November 23 - Thanksgiving
DECEMBER
Friday,
December 15 - Hanukkah begins at sundown
Monday,
December 25 - Christmas Day
Tuesday,
December 26 - Kwanzaa begins
Sunday,
December 31 - New Year’s Eve
N.B.
All deadlines and due dates for Congress and the Administration
should be considered flexible; both branches of government
frequently act later than scheduled.
