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With temperatures projected to rise to nearly 100 degrees in Washington, D.C., lawmakers are set to get out of town at the end of this week for the annual August recess.
As CQ Roll Call’s Jim Saksa wrote this week, Congress didn’t start leaving town for August because of the harsh humidity; it was an effort in the 1960s to help lawmakers balance family life.
