Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 43 gaveled 42 recessing 41 adjourn 41 clock ticking 41 congressional recess 40 Confirmation hearings 38 Legislature adjourns 38 reconvenes 38 lectern 37 convenes 37 final 37 weeklong recess 37 adjourning 37 gavels 37 deliberations 37 reconvene 37 deliberation 36 legislature convenes 36 debating 36 legislative session 36 session 36 KWAME HOLMAN 36 recess 36 reconvened 36 Carte Goodwin 35 curtain rises 35 Bells tolled 35 climactic 35 clock ticks 35 Russ Feingold D Wis 35 Easter recess 34 recessed 34 anteroom 34 deliberates 34 delicately poised 34 begins 34 debate 34 invoke cloture 34 Monsoon Session 34 adjournment 34 adjourns 34 speaker gavel 34 Senate 34 countdown 33 winding 33 reconvening 33 clock ticked 33 Deliberation 33 wrapping 33 Legislature convenes 33 partisan sniping 33 Deadlocked 33 finely balanced 33 gavel 33 momentous 33 peroration 33 deciding 32 debated 32 confirmation hearings 32 striding 32 deliberating 32 Legislature reconvenes 32 bells rang 32 penultimate 32 semiannual testimony 32 anticlimactic 32 before 32 plenary 32 adjourned 31 nominating 31 Stephen Collinson 31 bitterly partisan 31 maneuvering 31 monthlong recess 31 brass tacks 31 SNUFFsurgeryNEWS Let us 31 lawmaking 31 Adjournment 31 climax 31 Mukasey nomination 31 Winning Notification 31 solemn 31 bitterly contested 31 bell rings 31 deadlocking 31 lame duck session 31 Legislative Session 31 nerve wracking 31 Congress convenes 31 Before adjourning 31 showtime 31 #-#/#-hour 31 paused 31 moment 31 contentious 31 chastening 31 opening 31 adjourned sine die 31 plenary session 30 Speaker Nancy Pelosi 30 cloture vote