Claim: "When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.
Fact-check: Comic Jon Stewart says Congress met most Christmas Days in its early years
Verdict: pants-fire
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2011-12-09T00:00:00