This occurrence represents the only time since the adoption of the 20th Amendment that the President has convened Congress in an extraordinary session.

The President may convene a meeting of either or both Houses of the Oireachtas.

State senators elect from the chamber a President of the Senate, convened and under the supervision of the governor.

The President, he writes, "would never have convened the Camp David conference."

For only the third time, a President has convened the nation's governors to discuss a single issue.

According to these same reports, the President never convened his Government at all in 1995 and only met with his ministers three times last year.

Presidents often needed to fill Cabinet posts, judgeships and ambassadorial positions months before the Senate could convene.

Upon such request, the President could also convene a face-to-face meeting with the authorized representatives of the recipient.

Congressional leaders had asked the President to convene a conference on violence and values.

The President of the Council convened their afternoon meeting in a large and lavish room.