The first session of the 45th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC

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The first session of the Forty-fifth Congress of the United States is sitting in Washington, D.C. Samuel J. Randall, Democrat of Pennsylvania, is in the Speaker's chair. The session will sit for 50 days and last until December 3, 1877. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, "House History."  http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/index.html
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