[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 3, 2012)]
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Senate

  The 3d day of January being the day prescribed by the Constitution of 
the United States for the annual meeting of the Congress, the 2d 
session of the 112th Congress convened at 12:01 and 32 seconds p.m., 
and was called to order by the Honorable Mark R. Warner, a Senator from 
the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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