Notably, not the first time this legal fiction has been used, but I don’t really get what the previous uses were for. E.g., for the 2021–2022 Congress, section 7 of the War Powers Resolution[1], as well as House rules[2] XIII clause 7, XXII clause 7(c)(1), and XV clause 7 (all of which require something to be done within a prespecified number of either calendar or legislative days) were all suspended[3]

  from 2021-01-03 to 2021-01-28 by HR 8 [4],
  from 2021-03-13 to 2021-04-22 by HR 118,
  from 2022-08-01 to 2022-09-30 by HR 1289,
  from 2022-10-03 to 2022-11-11 by HR 1396,
  from 2022-11-21 to 2022-11-28 by HR 1464,
  from 2022-12-22 until the end by HR 1529,

which looks like vacations, campaigning and such? I’m not really sure, but it’s evident the formula had already been out there and was not a momentary fit of insanity and/or legislative genius (the Congress before that one used it too, for example), I’m just not sure what it was used for before.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1546

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CLERK-RULE-PAMPHLET-...

[3] https://www.congress.gov/quick-search/legislation?wordsPhras...

[4] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolutio... (mutatis mutandis for the others)