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2 U.S.C. § 27 — Change of place of meeting

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If meeting at the usual place would risk lawmakers' health, the President can act. This might happen because of contagious sickness or other dangerous conditions. The President may then order Congress to meet somewhere else instead.

This is one short, undivided rule. Before Congress is about to convene (meet), the President may decide that gathering at the regular seat of government would be hazardous to the lives or health of its members. This danger could come from contagious sickness spreading, or from other circumstances — the text does not limit which ones. If the President judges the danger serious enough, the President can issue a proclamation — an official public announcement — convening Congress at a different place, one the President considers proper.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whenever Congress is about to convene, and from the prevalence of contagious sickness, or the existence of other circumstances, it would, in the opinion of the President, be hazardous to the lives or health of the members to meet at the seat of Government, the President is authorized, by proclamation, to convene Congress at such other place as he may judge proper.

Source credit: (R.S. § 34.)

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