House Speaker Robbie Wills apologized to reporters today for convening the House ahead of the announced time without notifying the press of the change.

Reporters arriving in the House press gallery for this afternoon’s session were surprised to discover the House had convened at 1 p.m. despite having approved a motion from the floor last Friday to convene at 1:30 p.m. today.

Wills later explained that the House met early because of a joint resolution approved last week that called for the House and Senate to take off Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Tuesday for the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

No one realized until this morning that the resolution — it trumped the motion from the House floor — called for the House and Senate to convene at 1 p.m., Wills said.

Wills met with reporters in his office and gave them a summary of the afternoon’s proceedings.

“We’re not going to let it happen again,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Senate ignored the resolution and convened at the usual time, 1:30 p.m.

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