Hmm

From NPR, Senator Patrick Leahy on completion of the Miers' confirmation hearings:

We do not have an end time and whether we get out at Thanksgiving or not is not my concern; my concern is that it is done right. And if the questions are…answered as incompletely as they have been, then it’s going to be a long hearing indeed.

One might say an analogous statement could be made of Iraq.