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Maybe this is simple but I want to be sure.

"An election-year Congress" is the Congress in the year of the elections, right?!

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Maybe this is simple but I want to be sure.

"An election-year for Congress" is the Congress in the year of the elections, right?!

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preposition for has to be used.
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preposition for has to be used.
No, I don't think so.
"Election-year" is the attribute of "Congress".

So it's "an election-year Congress".

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"An election-year Congress" is the Congress in the year of the elections, right?!

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