If you’ve been looking at House committee agendas, you may notice that this afternoon’s House committees that are scheduled to meet both have a contingency on their start times – they’ll meet at 1:30 p.m. “or on adjournment.” What that means: The House is likely to start holding afternoon floor sessions today; the Senate started that last week, to try to move through its calendar more quickly in order to adjourn by the target date of March 21.

Senate afternoon floor sessions typically are later in the afternoon, starting at 4 or 4:30 p.m., when most committees have wrapped up their work. House afternoon sessions start right back up after lunch, forcing afternoon committee meetings to wait until the floor session’s over, whenever that might be. That means a 1:30-or-on-adjournment committee meeting might start at 2, at 2:30, or even later, depending on what happens in the full House.