This year, though, as lawmakers gather for the three-month session that convenes Wednesday, a cloud -and perhaps even some rain - is hovering on the fiscal horizon.

Between 2000 and 2005, an average of 907 bills was introduced in the Senate annually during the three-month legislative session.

Today, the last day of the three-month session, in the space of a few minutes, the Senate unanimously passed 33 items.

The General Assembly reconvenes Feb. 3, and legislators and state panels are already compiling proposals and ideas for the three-month session of lawmaking.

The 314-member National Assembly has begun a three-month session to review and amend the constitution aimed at bringing about political reforms, including direct popular elections for the island's president.

Both chambers of the General Assembly, which convenes in February for a three-month session that will be dominated by fiscal issues, are controlled by the Democratic Party.

To try to maintain its high success rate, the program does not accept technological neophytes, and it takes a maximum of 16 students for every three-month session.

The membership of the Temple Square Chorale changes with each new three-month session.

The culmination of each three-month session is the performance of a major choral piece.

The coordinator of the English Language Programme is responsible for managing the budget and all personnel during each three-month session.