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The common error in calculating the 60-day lookback period is to forget about pro-forma sessions. A legislative day is still a legislative day even if no legislative business is conducted. You need to account for two pro-forma sessions during each week of a district work period.

The date of 22 May seems to be floating around; that is definitely wrong. My rough estimate is that the cut-off will be sometime in mid-August. (Last year, CRS worked it out to be 12 September; it will be earlier this year because Congress won't be in session—using that phrase loosely, of course—in October.)

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