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=Adjournment=

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 * I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
 * Abraham Davenport response to a call for adjourning the Connecticut State Council because of fears that the deep darkness might be a sign that the Last Judgment was approaching, as quoted by Timothy Dwight, in Connecticut Historical Collectons 2d ed (1836) compiled by John Warner Barber, p. 403.


 * We are disappointed in one, and an important one, of that series of measures; but shall we therefore despair ? Shall we abandon ourselves to unworthy feelings and sentiments ? Shall we allow ourselves to be transported by rash and intemperate passions and counsels ? Shall we adjourn, and go home in disgust ? No! No! No! A higher, nobler, and more patriotic career lies before us. Let us here, at the east end of Pennsylvania avenue, do our duty, our whole duty, and nothing short of our duty, towards our common country.
 * Henry Clay from On the Veto of the Fiscal Bank Bill by President Tyler In the Senate of the United States 1841-08-19


 * Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: Satisfied that at this late hour, you will be more pleased to hear of your formal dissolution than of any thing else which could be uttered and as the time fixed be the Constitution for  the duration of your session is about to expire, I announce the this House now stands adjourned.
 * John M. Sandidge Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives Official Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana (1854-03-16)


 * What this country needs, above all other things, is that this Congress shall pass the appropriation bills, adjourn, and go home, and let the forces of business and good order and brotherhood, working in their natural and orderly way, bring us into light and stability and peace.
 * James Garfield Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives (1879-05-17)


 * Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
 * Will Rogers


 * This Convention has something to do or it has nothing to do. If it has nothing to do, it should adjourn at once. sine die, and go home.
 * Henry H. Metcalf the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention - 1918 (1918-06-05)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

 * McMurphy: [When The Chief slowly raises his hand] The Chief voted. Now, will you please turn on the television set?
 * Nurse Ratched: [she opens the glass panel] Mr. McMurphy, the meeting was adjourned and the vote was closed.
 * McMurphy: But the vote was 10 to 8. The Chief, he's got his hand up! Look!
 * Nurse Ratched: No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was 9 to 9.
 * McMurphy: Aw come on, you're not gonna say that now. You're not gonna say that now. You're gonna pull that hen-house shit now when the vote...the Chief just voted - it was 10 to 8. Now I want that television set turned on, right now.
 * [Nurse Ratched slides the glass panel across the front of the Nurse's Station, shutting out his protest.]



Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

 * Clarissa Saunders: You get to your feet in the Senate, take a long breath, and start spouting, but not too loud because a couple of the Senators might want to sleep. Then a curly-headed page boy takes it up to the desk where a long-faced clerk reads it, refers it to the right committee...
 * Jefferson Smith: ...Why?
 * Clarissa Saunders: Look, committees are small groups of Senators that have to sit the bill down, look into it, study it and report to the whole Senate. You can't take a bill nobody ever heard about and discuss it among ninety-six men. Where would you get?...Now days are going by, Senator. Days, weeks! Finally, they think it's quite a bill. It goes over to the House of Representatives for debate and a vote. But it has to wait it's turn on the calendar...That's the order of business. Your bill has to stand way back there in line unless the steering committee thinks it's important.
 * Jefferson Smith: What's that?
 * Clarissa Saunders: ...Do you really think we're getting anywhere?
 * Jefferson Smith: Oh yes Miss Saunders. Now tell me, what's the steering committee?
 * Clarissa Saunders: A committee of the majority party leaders. They decide when a bill is important enough to be moved up toward the head of the list.
 * Jefferson Smith: Well, this is!
 * Clarissa Saunders: ...Where are we now?...Oh yeah, House. More amendments, more changes and the bill goes back to the Senate. If the Senate doesn't like what the House did to the bill, they make more changes. If the House doesn't like those changes, stymied.
 * Jefferson Smith: So?
 * Clarissa Saunders: So they appoint men from each House to go into a huddle called a conference and they battle it out. Finally, if your bill is still alive after all this vivisection, it comes to a vote. Yes sir, the big day finally arrives [pause] and Congress adjourns. [The smile on Smith's face droops.] Catching on, Senator?
 * Jefferson Smith: Uh huh. Shall we start on it right away or order dinner first?



Blazing Saddles

 * Hedley Lamarr: Meeting adjourned. Oh, I am sorry, sir I didn't mean to overstep my bounds, you say that.
 * Governor William J. Le Petomane: What?
 * Hedley Lamarr: Meeting is adjourned.
 * Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is?
 * Hedley Lamarr: No, you say that, governor.
 * Governor William J. Le Petomane: What?
 * Hedley Lamarr: Meeting is adjourned.
 * Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is?
 * Hedley Lamarr: Here, sir, play with this.

