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The end of a [[legislative session]] "without day." These [[adjourn|adjournments]] are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of a [[Congress]].<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/adjournment_sine_die.htm] US Senate Reference</ref>
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The end of a [[legislative session]] (''without day'',  the English translation of the Latin phrase ''sine die''). These [[adjourn]]ments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual, biennial, or the two-year session of a legislative ses sion.  For [[Congress]], the term refers to the adjournment of an annual or two-year legislative session.<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/adjournment_sine_die.htm] US Senate Reference</ref> In state legislatures that meet only every two years, such as Texas, it refers to adjournment until the next session nearly two years later.
  
 
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The end of a legislative session (without day, the English translation of the Latin phrase sine die). These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual, biennial, or the two-year session of a legislative ses sion. For Congress, the term refers to the adjournment of an annual or two-year legislative session.[1] In state legislatures that meet only every two years, such as Texas, it refers to adjournment until the next session nearly two years later.

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