We might see this as a lame-duck president nominating a lame-duck Justice.
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We had a lame duck president in the last situation and we don&apost have a lame duck president.
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A lame-duck Ryan or lame-duck McCain wouldn't have any particular reason to try to keep things together for the party's sake.
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And it would be entirely arbitrary and unjustifiable to apply the McConnell Rule only to lame-duck presidents and not to lame-duck Senates.
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No lame duck president has appointed a Supreme Court Justice in the last 80 years, but the "lame duck presidency" has only existed for 65 years.
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Lame-duck dilemmas Obama hopes to capitalize on the lame-duck session of Congress to complete at least one major outstanding issue: his stalled nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
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Third, even if we concede that 11 months left in a presidency somehow constitutes a lame-duck period, then four months left for the current Senate certainly constitutes a lame-duck period.
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Congress held a "lame duck" session that generally accomplished little.
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Whether that constitutes as "lame duck" is up for debate.
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They even have a coalition called No Lame Duck Spending.
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Being a lame duck doesn't have to be all bad.
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"They would confirm him in the lame duck session," Totenberg said.
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Several other lawsuits have been filed challenging the lame-duck legislation.
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Thursday was a typical day in the lame-duck Trump administration.
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Obama (with mild enthusiasm) greets kid dressed as "lame duck" pic.twitter.
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Even a lame-duck strategy necessitates some action before the election.
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Scott Walker (R) last year during a lame-duck legislative session.
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Let's get it done before the lame duck quacks its last.
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Ryan, a lame duck Speaker, has little power over his members.
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Lame-duck sessions can indeed be vehicles for omnibus spending bills.
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So, I think effectively, the government has become a lame duck.
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"I'm not going to make myself a lame duck," she said.
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That lame duck status may be contributing to this year's blah-ness.
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As this lame-duck president knows, it's dead on arrival in Congress.
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That would boost the odds of a lame-duck confirmation, they note.
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It's unlikely new sanctions on Saudi will pass in the lame duck.
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Now, Trump's victory will only stiffen opposition to the lame-duck nomination.
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The lame-duck session of Congress is expected to end this month.
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This year&aposs lame duck, or postelection session, likely will be important.
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By the lame duck, the outcome of the elections will be known.
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Those efforts failed in the lame-duck session after the November election.
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Lawmakers returned to Washington on Tuesday to begin the lame-duck session.
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Can the parties reach a lame-duck deal on criminal justice reform?
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Trade supporters have long counted on action in a lame-duck Congress.
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" CNN ran a piece entitled "Is Trump Already a Lame Duck President?
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That left Germany with a lame-duck government for about three months.
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It should be a top congressional priority during the lame duck session.
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It was also passed in the lame duck, not before the election.
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"Look, I am now very much in lame-duck status," he said.
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But that won't stop any speculation for a post-election lame-duck session.
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"Lame duck" was the headline over the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine's front-page leader.
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Congress, however, is expected to hold a lame-duck session after the elections.
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But if they're going to do it in lame duck, do it now.
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That would guarantee a lame-duck end to Ms Park's already underwhelming presidency.
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After what happened yesterday who wants to do business with a lame duck?
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Since 85033, however, there has been a lame-duck session after every election.
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" As for Ryan, the soon-to-be-ex-Speaker: "He's a lame duck.
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This year's lame-duck session could be one of the lamest in years.
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The measures are all expected to be signed by lame-duck Republican Gov.
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Drudge's top headline read "MOSCOW MOCKS OBAMA 'LAME DUCK" when the site fell.
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Much of that, in turn, is about Obama obtaining definitive lame duck status.
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Lawmakers are set to deal with several matters during the lame duck session.
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"John Bolton is already a lame duck — and he knows it" https://t.
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While Obama may be a lame-duck President, he's acted like anything but.
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Why would the outgoing lame duck Obama want the review before he departs?
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Other legal challenges to the laws passed during the lame-duck session remain.
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The fast track law — combined with Obama's lame-duck status, his personal investment in TPP as a potential part of his legacy and an unpredictable Congress — all make it impossible to forecast what might happen in the lame-duck, she said.
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There's a small chance the bill could be revived in a lame-duck session.
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Enrique Peña Nieto, the lame-duck president, gave a speech at an official celebration.
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Obama is a lame duck; he's not gonna be able to do a lot.
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"This arrogant act by a lame duck president will not stand," Lee tweeted Wednesday.
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Republican lawmakers are packing their agenda for the lame-duck session after the Nov.
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It also says trade agreements should not be "undertaken in a Lame Duck Congress".
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Evers has asked the governor not to limit his power during the lame duck.
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What is the universe of things that might come up during a lame duck?
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"It's the lame duck or never strategy," one source close to the process said.
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If he or she is similarly rejected during a lame-duck session, what then?
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Frank's shooting means that VP Donald Blythe, lame duck extraordinaire, is now in charge.
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Running for president also helps stave off the effects of being a lame duck.
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Mr. Barak was a lame duck with no parliamentary majority when violence broke out.
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During the lame duck Congress, the president-elect can start the jobs-creation process.
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"They want her to lame duck herself," complained one Pelosi ally after the meeting.
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Lame-duck presidents have also gotten into hot water for exercising their pardon powers.
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Congress' "lame-duck" session takes place in November and December, after the elections on Nov.
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And, indeed, during the 103 lame-duck session they were extended for two additional years.
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But during the 2012 lame-duck session, President Barack Obama threatened to veto full extension.
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Instead of a new cash-cow carriers have only a lame duck alternative in RCS.
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That means action in Congress in December at the earliest, in a lame-duck session.
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FH: Well, I think we're going to get fully functioning after the lame duck session.
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Riley, then a lame duck, to call a rare special session in December to ram
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To Democrats, she already feels like a lame duck; to Republicans, an impeachment scheduling problem.
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The bill is now being retooled to get through the Senate in a lame duck.
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Still, Republicans remain worried Obama will issue such an order during the lame-duck session.
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There were only four lame-duck sessions between those gaps: 1970, 1974, 1980 and 1982.
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Prospects for criminal justice legislation have been steadily gaining steam heading into the lame-duck.
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Unlike most snubbed suitors, the lame-duck president faces no consequences for failing to satisfy.
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A vote in the lame-duck period, however, appears to be the most realistic possibility.
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A lame-duck Federalist Senate quickly confirmed him even as he remained secretary of state.
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Some question whether Ryan, as a lame-duck Speaker, is losing control of the conference.
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No spending bills, tax increases or political pork from this lame-duck Congress, we demanded.
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But in a lame-duck setting, Democrats may have influence in the process, Lowenthal added.
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If you begin your first day as president as a lame duck, it changes everything.
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Jeff Flake said he would support voting on the court vacancy in the lame duck.
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House conservatives, meanwhile, want a longer-term CR to avoid a lame-duck session. Gen.
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That means Pinera is set to be a lame-duck leader at best in 2020.
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That threatens to make him a lame duck in 2020, as rivals jostle for power.
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But Peña Nieto is a lame duck, with less than two months left in office.
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The current Senate becomes a lame duck in November and goes away entirely in January.
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"When we came back here into the lame-duck session, being a lame-duck senator, this was, along with the farm bill, my highest priority and I'm not going to give up on this until the gavel goes down on this session," she added.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan had earlier said he would not proceed with a lame-duck vote.
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It also keeps the president from slipping quickly into "lame duck" status during an election year.
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He is not yet the nation's chief diplomat but a lame duck as the nation's spymaster.
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TPP's proponents held out a faint hope that it could pass in the lame-duck Congress.
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Scott Walker used a very bad chart to defend Republicans' lame-duck power grab in Wisconsin.
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The lame duck session after the next election is the perfect time to pass this legislation.
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It is possible that the deal will pass in the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress.
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Manning said there is "no concern" that Trump's announcement would make Dunford a "lame duck" chairman.
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They also worry that Ryan's lame-duck status might render him less effective as a fundraiser.
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Hearing that the president is a "lame duck" with limited powers, might soldiers defy his orders?
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The Kentucky Republican says there's more important work to be done in the lame-duck session.
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That being said, I think that he is already in something of a lame duck phase.
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The wall isn't the only thing on Congress's to-do list for the lame-duck session.
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Congress first needs to vote down any of these tax extenders in the Lame Duck session.
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Asked this month if Judge Garland should be confirmed in the lame-duck period if Mrs.
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The entire lame-duck session was later ruled unconstitutional, a decision subject to another court fight.
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P.P. group if she would oppose a lame-duck vote on the accord if elected, Mrs.
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Schiff said he hopes the legislation is taken up during the lame-duck session of Congress.
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Yet somehow, the GOP platform suggests that such deals should not be considered during lame-duck.
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" The change will be significant enough that Autoweek called the 2020 season "a lame duck campaign.
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Reid, however, backed off pushing for an online gambling ban during last year's lame-duck session.
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On Tuesday, opposition lawmakers boycotted Kenyatta's opening of parliament, saying he is a lame duck president.
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A potential veto override would not occur until an expected lame-duck session after Election Day.
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He told the AFL Executive Council McConnell told him it wasn't coming up in the lame duck.
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Whether the proposals will find enough bipartisan support in this lame duck session remains to be seen.
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For that reason, the lame-duck session after the election saw no action taken on the TPP.
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She did not respond to a question about whether she would be running a "lame duck" government.
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Both initiatives also may have to wait for a lame duck session when political conditions have changed.
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This is the second time this year that a court has deemed Republicans' lame-duck push unconstitutional.
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There is no reason for a short-staffed and lame-duck FTC to rush this complaint through.
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It was during Buchanan's lame-duck period in 1861 that the Civil War was ushered into life.
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There's this thing now in the last year ... the late-term Obama, right — done, lame duck Obama.
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But it's not like the lame-duck Obama has many other levers to pull at this point.
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"He [the president] thinks he can get a vote done during the lame duck session," McAuliffe said.
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The Senate could theoretically then take up that bill in the lame-duck session after the elections.
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What's going to happen is they're going to come back in lame-duck session and increase spending.
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Both locals and foreign investors are wondering whether they are dealing with a lame-duck central banker.
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Manning added that there is "no concern" that Trump's announcement would make Dunford a "lame duck" chairman.
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Lobbyists are bracing for the uncertainty that comes with having a lame-duck Speaker of the House.
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Schumer on Tuesday said he would discuss Democratic priorities for the lame duck at a later date.
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The British Open arrangement was accelerated to this year when ESPN gave up its lame-duck year.
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Scott Walker (R) last month that were passed by the state legislature during a lame-duck session.
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Mary Fallin a term-limited lame duck, they won't have an incumbent to take on in 22016.
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In 2006, a lame-duck Congress mandated that the Postal Service pre-fund future retiree health benefits.
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The earliest a vote might take place on the TPP deal is during the lame-duck session.
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Immigration propelled Britain from the European Union and left Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany a lame duck.
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Every lame-duck politician has to deal with losing power as attention turns to the next generation.
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Ms. Merkel played that role but is now a lame duck, her voice quieter on European affairs.
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That new measure could then pass the House and then the Senate in the lame-duck session.
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But time was running short — this was a lame duck session, scheduled to end the next month.
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The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, will be a lame duck in his final full year in power.
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Given that attitude, extending the iPhone 7's lame duck period is the last thing Apple would want.
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He spoke with the passion of a candidate, not a bowed lame duck president shuffling off into retirement.
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In 22018, Biden advocated for pushing TPP through the lame-duck Congress in Obama's final months in office.
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"There was no pretense of justification at all," Jackson said of Republicans' actions in the lame-duck session.
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The bills were proposed at the end of the state's House session -- known as the "lame-duck" period.
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Scott Walker refused to veto sweeping legislation passed by the GOP-controlled legislature during its lame-duck session.
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With little incentive to watch a possibly lame-duck team against the 223-26 Redskins, few turned up.
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" Trump, of course, hit back -- calling Ryan a "failed V.P. candidate" and a "long running lame duck failure.
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First, de Blasio's lame duck status has the potential to sap his political clout moreso than previous administrations.
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Opinion: Why Jacob Zuma has turned into a lame duck president CNN's David McKenzie contributed to this report.
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"Thank you Barack, for proving you're not a lame duck, but my very own silver fox," she wrote.
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Some are asking whether Obama wants to expend political capital it desperately needs during the lame-duck session.
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However, he is still hoping to get the legislation passed in the lame duck session after the election.
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With Trump's victory, Engler said he is "not encouraged" that the TPP will pass during the lame-duck.
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As the lame duck session begins, many critical and time-sensitive issues will be competing for Congress' attention.
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Perhaps Flake should start thinking about something beyond a series of lame-duck speeches or a lecture tour.
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In the Conservative fold, Mr Cameron is a lame duck; his replacement will be appointed by September 7th.
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Lame-duck sessions were subsequently unusual for many decades to follow, according to a Congressional Research Service report.
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Second, President Obama was not a lame duck when McConnell announced the McConnell Rule in mid-February 85033.
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That most likely pushes congressional consideration into a lame-duck session after the November elections at the earliest.
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The loss will raise questions about his political future as he returns to Washington a lame-duck senator.
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The official said conservatives are trying to stir up opposition to a lame duck based on vague fears.
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Congress is gearing up for a lame-duck showdown over the wall, with government funding expiring on Dec.
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Clinton appears to have put her finger on the scale against a vote in the lame-duck session.
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That will kick the can down the road past November and into a lame duck session of Congress.
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"We remain very hopeful that in this lame duck session whatever remaining wrinkles can be unwrinkled," Collins said.
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"What's the guarantee in the lame-duck?" she asked reporters during a roundtable discussion in her Capitol office.
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Congress must act during the lame-duck session and pass the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act (S.
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Republicans in Wisconsin then passed a bevy of bills in a lame-duck session, many limiting incoming Gov.
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Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress for few more weeks, should act during this lame duck session.
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And these bills all happen during lame-duck sessions, specifically subverting the results of elections that just happened.
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Mr. Ma himself is something of a lame duck, being past the age when Chinese officials typically retire.
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Conservatives have pitched a longer spending measure in an effort to skip a post-election lame-duck session.
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Lame duck: First things first — the current Congress has unfinished business as it returns to Washington this week.
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"I am convinced that there is going to be help for Flint in the lame duck," Reid said.
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Months of public pressure finally led to Obama filing a lame-duck executive action to block the pipeline.
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Most political pros think it'd be crazy for Biden to give himself lame-duck status from Day 1.
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Free from overreacting to the swings of daily tracking polls, the lame duck can fly to great heights.
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The timeline has earned pushback from House conservatives who want to avoid a lame-duck session of Congress.
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Wisconsin's lame-duck session strips the new governor of power; Theresa May comes home from Brussels empty-handed.
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In fact, it has been over 80 years since a lame duck president has appointed a Supreme Court justice.
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His rearguard action will prove a distraction for Mr Tata, whom the ousted man described as a "lame duck".
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To many Peruvians the president, who has four years to go in office, already looks like a lame duck.
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U.S. Republicans and Democrats have a history of using lame-duck sessions to advance priorities ahead of power shifts.
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Action during the lame-duck session between the election and the inauguration of the new president seems unlikely, however.
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Now, in this lame-duck session, is the time for Congress to bolster the role of the inspectors general.
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Obama's approval rating, meanwhile, has remained steady since Gallup surveyed it during the lame-duck period of his presidency.
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President Obama is calling on Congress to pass the deal during the lame-duck session after the November elections.
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At the time, the lame-duck Obama administration's intelligence community assured the public there was good reason to investigate.
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Flake's fellow Republican Judiciary Committee member Lindsey Graham dismissed the idea of a "lame-duck" session to confirm Garland.
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The debate over constructing a wall could come to a head during the lame-duck session after the Nov.
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"What I can't predict is how long this lame-duck will go and what appetite there is," he said.
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The move would allow Republicans to try to get a second Supreme Court nominee confirmed in the lame duck.
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To be sure, conservatives should be wary of any massive spending bill thrown together during a lame duck session.
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Supporters are hoping Obama will be leery of expending political capital he desperately needs during the lame-duck session.
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Perhaps not coincidentally, lawmakers have held more lame-duck sessions at a time of increasing political polarization and gridlock.
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In 1801, a lame-duck Congress cut one seat on the Supreme Court just before Thomas Jefferson became president.
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The lame-duck session ends in a matter of weeks, and so does the Republicans' unified control of government.
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For lawmakers, passing the First Step Act in the lame duck session this year is the smartest move imaginable.
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In the final throes of his lame duck period, there was not much congressional interest in bringing Reagan down.
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Others floated the possibility that Garland could be confirmed in a lame-duck session of Congress after November's elections.
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Lawmakers want to sneak through these handouts with many other tax extenders under consideration during the lame-duck session.
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The bump is consistent with how lame-duck presidents are viewed in the days after their successor is elected.
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This time, the meeting dramatized both his lame-duck status and the changed world that his successor will inherit.
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Michigan's Republican-run Legislature drew a target on its Democratic rivals in the lame-duck session that just ended.
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The Capitals lost key players in free agency and left their coach, Barry Trotz, with a lame-duck contract.
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Baylor, mired in a sexual-assault scandal and playing under a lame-duck acting coach, sputtered to 7-6.
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After the election, there will be a so-called lame duck session in Congress, which starts in mid-November.
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But, the critics will respond, he will automatically become a lame duck, unable to get big things done. So?
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"Everything's going pretty well" is a compelling message if you're a lame-duck president hoping to bolster his legacy.
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That's precisely why Obama's $4.1 trillion budget plan, even one composed by a lame duck president, is far from dead.
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But some wonder how much he can get done as a lame duck mayor with an increasingly independent City Council.
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But some wonder how much he can get done as a lame duck mayor with an increasingly independent City Council.
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Republicans in Congress may try to vote on the deal in the lame-duck session after congressional elections in November.
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It's possible they could come up after the election in a lame duck session although GOP leaders insist they won't.
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Tammy, let me ask you, because you mentioned leadership and that we have a lame duck leader in this group.
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Lame-duck legislatures are also still working on sending anti-abortion bills to their governors' desks before this session ends.
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It would be hard, under such circumstances, for the Senate to move the nomination during a short lame-duck session.
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Lincoln was able to sway these lame-duck Democrats to vote for the amendment in the name of national unity.
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Freedom leaders now are pressing Ryan to delay the House GOP leadership elections until after the lame-duck session. Rep.
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Lame-duck President James Buchanan tearfully implored them to find a national solution that he himself had failed to identify.
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GOP lawmakers are trying to stop the agencies from releasing any "midnight regulations," those finalized in a lame duck session.
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"I hated lame-duck sessions," former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Republican, told the New York Times in 2010.
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Waiting until the lame duck is the ultimate in playing politics with this nomination … there couldn't be anything more political.
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Obama greeted a child dressed as a "lame duck" during the annual trick-or-treat event on the South Lawn.
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He also said it's unclear what appetite Congress will have to address the expired provisions in the lame-duck session.
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Congress will return for a lame-duck session after the election to figure out how to keep the government open.
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These calls will almost certainly increase as Congress seeks to reassure Israel in the wake of Obama's lame-duck maneuvers.
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It is not simply that they will likely treat her as a lame duck prime minister with little real authority.
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Senate – sexual harassment: Congress may vote on a sexual harassment bill in the lame-duck session, McConnell announced (The Hill).
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After that, Congress will only be in session for a few weeks before November's elections and the lame-duck session.
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A spokesperson for Evers said the governor's office is confident the lame-duck legislative session will ultimately be struck down.
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McConnell has said that the deal may not get a vote until the lame-duck session after the November elections.
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Obama pushed back on that plan, saying the repeal would fail and derail the remainder of his lame-duck agenda.
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Health care was independents' top priority with 6900 percent saying they wanted the lame-duck Congress to focus on it.
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In fact, what we saw Friday with Trump's healthcare failure is possibly just the tip of the lame-duck iceberg.
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Reports in Politico, the Hill, and the Washington Post have portrayed a Republican conference frustrated by a lame-duck leader.
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" But she also noted: "Do you think I would make myself a lame duck right here over this double-espresso?
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LAME DUCK HEARINGS: Congress is back for just one week, but is still handling a healthy dose of tech work.
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It was a command performance in the twilight zone of his administration, turning a lame duck into a graceful swan.
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In Michigan and Wisconsin, lame duck Republican-majority legislatures are enacting laws to limit the powers of incoming Democratic governors.
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Lame-duck Republican legislatures in Wisconsin and Michigan are trying to strip incoming Democratic governors and attorneys general of power.
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It is qualitatively different from the usual lawmaking that occurs during so-called lame-duck sessions, just after an election.
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Majda Jones wants to know: What can the lame duck House do between now and when the Democrats take over?
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The lame duck legislation also takes aim at lowering turnout for a State Supreme Court election scheduled for April 2020.
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That outcome also raised new questions about Mr. Ryan's ability to hold on to power given his lame-duck status.
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But the long form still has a couple of rounds and months to go — call it a lame-duck Cup.
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"The moment of precariousness is, I think, especially significant now because we are in the lame duck phase," said Bharara.
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Wary of declaring himself a lame duck and triggering a destabilizing succession struggle, Mr. Putin has kept his plans secret.
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With the possibility of 50 more rules, the lame duck tally could push this regulatory cost figure to $813 billion . . .
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That's one of the very clear takeaways from Adam Nagourney's pair of very enjoyable profiles of lame-duck California Gov.
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New Hampshire primaries can be unpredictable, particularly in an election when the occupant in the White House is a lame duck.
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A lame duck session and a Republican Congress will make it difficult to get such a bill through the legislative branch.
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He was pushing for passage during the lame-duck session, but it's more likely this will come in the new Congress.
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They worry that Russia might seek to exploit the lame-duck period in Washington to create new facts on the ground.
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President Trump blasted former House Speaker Paul Ryan as "a long running lame duck failure" in a series of Thursday tweets.
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Whether or not there is a vote on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the lame duck session is still uncertain.
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Obama's priorities for a lame-duck session of Congress may also be on the table at the White House Monday afternoon.
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With the next Congress now under GOP control, there is no prospect for a lame-duck vote before Obama leaves office.
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The bill passed the House earlier this year, and the Senate planned to push it through during the lame duck session.
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"No," Cornyn told CNN when asked if there was any possibility the GOP would consider Garland in the lame-duck session.
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Nevertheless, Barack Obama wants to push it through in the "lame-duck" session of Congress at the end of this year.
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If Koskinen is honest and candid, "likely we won't approach this until after the elections, until the lame-duck," Fleming said.
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A wiser course for Republicans would be to confirm the Garland nomination to the Supreme Court in the lame-duck session.
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Are you worried that there is going to be an attempt to pass it in the lame-duck session of Congress?
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He's already essentially a lame duck, and has spent much of the last six months campaigning on behalf of Donald Trump.
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The letters come as Congress prepares for a lame-duck session where funding for DHS is expected to be a battle.
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McConnell: Senate will extend Iran sanctions in lame duck: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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Moreover, Cameron's statement means nothing since he's now a lame duck and a new government will be in place by October.
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Lawmakers return today to Washington, where they'll face new power dynamics and a lame-duck session full of drama and intrigue.
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Lawmakers differ over whether the onus is on Obama, a lame-duck president, or his eventual successor elected later this fall.
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With the elections mercifully behind us, Congress faces a lame-duck session with the most ideological president in the modern era.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling comes after a lower court in March ruled that the entire lame-duck session was unlawful.
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Another ALEC favorite to pass during the state's lame duck limits the governor's power by preventing him from changing administrative rules.
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In Germany, Merkel, once Europe's much applauded moral compass, has been replaced as party chief and rendered a lame-duck Chancellor.
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Many liberals are also hammering the notion of voting on Garland in the lame duck session, as some Republicans have suggested.
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Mr. McConnell has said he would not act in a lame duck but it is possible he could change his mind.
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"In this career-sunset phase there are concerns about being a lame duck and that can weaken your position," he added.
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Creditors will not renegotiate their debts with Mr Macri's lame-duck government, fearing that Mr Fernández might force bigger concessions later.
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THE DAILY CALLER: Sir, right now, in 603 we saw several pieces of major legislation passed in a lame-duck Congress.
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She will remain as a lame-duck prime minister until a new leader is chosen, probably by the end of July.
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Now Gowdy had finally scheduled the hearing in the lame-duck session on a day Democrats were holding their leadership elections.
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Ms. Merkel, now in her 13th year as chancellor and increasingly weakened at home and abroad, is considered a lame duck.
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If Republicans keep the Senate, then Mr. McConnell presumably could push through a new nomination in the lame-duck session afterward.
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"This just seems like such an improbable proposition, that we would have a lame-duck Speaker for eight months," Massie said.
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Strange is now a lame-duck senator who will step down once the victor of December's special general election is crowned.
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He said Congress would also try to finalize a five-year reauthorization of the farm bill during the "lame duck" session.
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Rosen writes: Supreme Court nominees are especially likely to be rejected for partisan reasons at the end of a lame-duck presidency.
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Reid's late-afternoon floor speech came the first day the Senate was back to work for its post-election lame-duck session.
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North Carolina's Republican-dominated legislature could approve a new voter identification law as soon as Wednesday during its own lame-duck session.
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They are already using the lame-duck sessions to push for bills that would limit the power of the incoming Democratic governors.
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Jeff Flake told reporters that he would press for Garland's nomination hearings in the lame-duck session before Trump is sworn in.
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President Obama is pushing for Senate action on Garland in the "lame duck" period before a new president takes office in January.
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They want to have them later in the lame-duck session in order to see how Ryan deals with spending bill negotiations.
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In short, a lame duck consideration of the unpopular TPP would be undemocratic, and would wildly exacerbate frustrations about a rigged system.
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None of this is possible when a politically unaccountable lame-duck president arbitrarily makes national policy as he heads out the door.
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Bringing sentencing reform legislation to a vote during the lame duck session would be a powerful demonstration of his commitment to justice.
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When it is approaching time to leave or move on to a new position, face reality — you will become a lame duck.
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If you want to be a great lame duck, make those tough, unpopular decisions that you know are good for the company.
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That would prevent lawmakers from holding negotiations over an expensive omnibus spending bill in the lame-duck session after the elections. Rep.
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Earnest said that the White House is pushing for a vote in Congress before the lame-duck session after the November elections.
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They wanted to be anywhere but here over the holidays — especially the lame-duck Republicans who lost their reelection bids last month.
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"We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame-duck president," Sen.
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Indeed, the committee could have reported, and the Senate approved, her during the three-week lame duck session in November and December.
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If he waits until the deadline, he could potentially push the veto override vote into the lame-duck session after the elections.
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Blunt, who also has jurisdiction over the election security legislation, said he was uncertain of its prospects in the lame-duck session.
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Supporters of the embattled Export-Import Bank are urging congressional lawmakers to restore its full lending powers during the lame-duck session.
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What the critics of Pellegrini fail to emphasize is that he was a lame-duck manager from the start of this season.
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Senators of both parties are considering ways around Mr. Shelby, but no resolution is likely until a lame-duck session in December.
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The 82 people were appointed in a controversial lame-duck legislative session late last year held after Evers defeated Walker in November.
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"If you get into a lame-duck session and they oppose him, you know darn well this is a game," he said.
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Regardless, other states should draft stronger sore loser laws to legislate against such post-hoc power shifts during future lame duck sessions.
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Even if the Senate flips in the midterms, there will be a lame-duck — and potentially cooperative — Senate from November to January.
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A federal judge has struck down early-voting restrictions that were passed by Wisconsin Republicans in a lame-duck session last month.
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By the end of August, she could be a lame-duck incumbent without a political position in Congress, the DNC, or anywhere.
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The bill sailed through the House last year in the lame duck session but hit a snag on its way to Senate.
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Beyond the possibility of a shutdown, Conway indicated Trump doesn't really have specific priorities for the upcoming lame-duck sessions of Congress.
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Given his lame-duck status, many expect the fight will now begin in earnest among the Kremlin elite to choose his successor.
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It's sadly impossible to discuss Dirk Nowitzki without mentioning his age or the lame-duck defense he provides on a crummy team.
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Mr. Snyder also signed or vetoed dozens of other bills this week passed by lawmakers during their busy, contentious lame-duck session.
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Those senators won a promise from Mr. Trump in August that he would consider backing a bill during the lame-duck session.
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"These aren't the final months of a second-term, constitutionally lame-duck presidency with a presidential election fast approaching," Mr. McConnell said.
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He may also want more time to test possible successors, while avoiding lame duck status with an heir waiting in the wings.
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"His tenure in this session isn't done until the lame duck is done," said one of the leaders of the Freedom Caucus.
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Even after entering the proverbial "lame-duck" period following his defeat in the 1992 election, President Bush continued his focus on Africa.
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Many critics argued Biden would be a "lame duck" president if he even suggested he&aposd skip out on a second term.
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Rather than linger as a lame duck, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the prime minister and long-time political opponent of the Rajapaksa clan, resigned.
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She lost control of parliament in April and had already started to look like a lame duck ahead of December 2017 elections.
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Meanwhile, President Obama is urging lawmakers to back the deal and pass it during the lame-duck session before his leaves office.
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Yet Trump's election, with the sharp shift in approach it's expected to bring, has put a spotlight on Obama's lame-duck status.
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One thing the lame-duck Congress didn't do, however, was pass the increase in the statutory debt ceiling that was needed in 2011.
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A lame-duck Merkel – or her successor – may be less tolerant of countries, such as Italy, who flout the European Union's budget rules.
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Walker failed to trick people, lost his race, and then used his lame duck powers to do the reverse of what he said.
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Eager to exploit his recent spike in popularity, Obama is looking to become the most active lame duck campaigner in recent presidential history.
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Federal legislation of autonomous vehicles remains stalled in Congress, but there's a small chance it could be revived in a lame-duck session.
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After the announcement of Guardiola's hiring by Bayern in 2013, the lame-duck manager, Jupp Heynckes, won the league and the Champions League.
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Congress has shown little appetite to advance his agenda, even in the lame duck period between November's vote and Inauguration Day in January.
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Kaine said if he is still in the Senate during a post-election lame duck session, he would oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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The first lady got to live out the end of every Scooby Doo episode and unmasked the kid in the "lame duck" costume.
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This doesn't, of course, bar Republicans from approving Kavanaugh or any other Trump nominee in a lame-duck session in November or December.
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Congress narrowly avoids shutdown GOP leaders opted against negotiating another catchall government spending package with Obama in the lame-duck session this year.
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"If TPP were brought up on a lame-duck I think that'd be a mistake and I think it would fail," Levin said.
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Hoyer on Tuesday stopped short of saying the Democrats would vote against the lame-duck spending bills if Ryan pursues his minibus strategy.
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"I think this is a matter of policy -- that during a lame-duck period, we should not be confirming a Supreme Court nomination."
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He also said he would prefer that Congress not deal with the expiring tax provisions known as "extenders" during the lame-duck session.
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Such an outcome would undoubtedly embarrass Obama and divide Democrats ahead of the 2628 elections and a crucial lame-duck session of Congress.
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Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, set off a flurry of stories Wednesday when he suggested waiting until the lame duck session for a hearing.
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Hong Kong lawmaker Fernando Cheung told Reuters that Lam was now a lame duck who will not be able to complete her term.
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"I would just note the obvious, and that is the short period of time we have during the lame-duck session," he said.
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The Saudi government, in a statement, said it hoped Congress would "correct this legislation" in its lame duck session after the November election.
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Congressional leaders have said that the deal is most likely to get a vote in the lame-duck session after the November elections.
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Democrats have fired back, arguing it would be irresponsible for the Senate to not confirm a replacement until after the lame-duck session.
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Trying to pass the expansive TPP in a lame-duck session — after a new president is elected — is fraught with complications, he said.
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"I hope we do get it done" during the lame-duck session, Brady said at an event at Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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Conservatives, though, are opposed to a short-term bill and insist on a longer measure to avoid a lame-duck session of Congress.
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House Democrats are expected to vote on a new caucus chairman and vice chairman during the lame-duck session after the November elections.
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Under pressure from business elites, it is possible Guatemala's lame-duck Congress may give its approval, but that would inflict grave political damage.
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But with Republicans set to control the White House and Congress, Mr. Obama abandoned plans to seek ratification from the lame-duck Congress.
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Congress returned to Washington this week to start its now ritual end-of-the-year lame-duck session — the final one for Sen.
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Q. How likely is it that Republicans would confirm Judge Garland in a lame-duck session after the election, should a Democrat win?
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Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said he believes the 220006st Century Cures Act would be a "priority" in the lame duck session of Congress.
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Though Ryan's effectiveness as a lame-duck fundraiser isn't yet clear, Republicans hope the leadership race that's likely to develop between California Rep.
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Still, Zarecky wasn't paid for six months, both assistant coaches were laid off, and the team struggled adjusting to its lame-duck status.
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Biden, speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, said that the brief "lame duck" session of Congress after the Nov.
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"Do you think I would make myself a lame duck right here over this double espresso?" she said in the LA Times interview.
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It would be virtually impossible for a lame-duck Congress to approve the Pacific trade accord, the largest regional trade deal in history.
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But it has fallen victim to election-year politics at home and now seems unlikely to pass, even in a lame-duck Congress.
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The lame duck legislation will also weaken the attorney general's office by eliminating the solicitor general's office in the state's Department of Justice.
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Perhaps you'd rather not have the entire future of the Supreme Court hinging on the feelings of one lame-duck Republican from Arizona.
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He picked Garland because Garland is the guy who is likely to be confirmed, in the lame-duck period if not anything else.
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In Hatch's case, even if he were to retire, it would make no sense to do so now and become a lame duck.
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He added that his efforts to reduce homelessness countered any notion that he was a lame duck mayor whose political power had waned.
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Clinton opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, which liberals worry President Obama will pursue in a lame-duck session of Congress.
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We have got to make sure that the TPP does not get to the floor of the Congress in this lame-duck session.
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"There is nothing on the horizon that I see as of right now that would come up into a lame duck," he said.
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"The question ultimately is, is there the will to do it in the lame duck?" said a retail industry source tracking the issue.
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The Speaker also insisted that there was still a window during the post-election, lame-duck session to pass bipartisan criminal justice reform.
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And while a comprehensive criminal justice overhaul fell short, progress was made through the 21st Century CURES Act in a lame-duck compromise.
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"Do you think I would make myself a lame duck right here over this double-espresso?" she laughed during the interview with Barabak.
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Supporters of the current push argue that delay would kill the effort outright, given the fragile bipartisan compromise struck during the lame duck.
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That they're treating a duly elected president as an illegitimate lame duck months before his successor even receives his or her party's nomination.
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As a lame-duck president, Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE will use his remaining days in office to push any outstanding policy proposals, either through Congress, also now a lame duck, or by executive order.
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But on Thursday, McConnell told Trump there likely wasn't enough time for a vote during the lame duck session, the New York Times reported.
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Whether through his own actions or because of the crises that invariably crop up, even a lame-duck president can play an outsize role.
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In his last act as governor, Walker signed a series of lame-duck bills reducing the power of newly elected Democratic Party officials statewide.
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After that Congress would have to either take a vote in a lame-duck session after the 2018 midterms or delay the matter indefinitely.
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But Flake is now out of the picture, choosing to retire and ratchet up his Trump critiques from the refuge of lame-duck status.
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It was never an easy sell domestically, but its proponents held out a faint hope that it could pass in the lame-duck Congress.
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We have high expectation that we'll make it in the budget bill that will be passed after the election during the lame duck session.
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But Republicans are already sending strong signals that they might confirm Merrick Garland in a lame-duck session if Hillary Clinton wins in November.
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California's lame duck governor, Jerry Brown, in an appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," made an appeal for Democrats to open their ranks.
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Instead, it stems from the 28503 decision by a lame-duck Congress to compel the Postal Service to pre-fund future retiree health benefits.
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Further complicating the spending scramble, are concerns from House conservatives who want to avoid passing a new funding measure in the lame-duck session.
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The 22nd Amendment, passed in 1951, established the two-term limit for the presidency and created the "lame duck" period that we know today.
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The move was unsurprising given the governor's lame duck status and the fact that the plan provided little in the way of substantive reforms.
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It doesn't matter that, reportedly, the game handled like a lame duck trying to paddle its way across a lake of Key lime pie.
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In the final months of a lame duck presidency, the Department of Labor is rushing to finish its so-called "overtime rule" by summer.
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Obama rejected the premise that he is already a lame duck, saying that term applies to presidents after their successor has already been elected.
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Trump's verdict on the bill could come as soon as this week, after the issue was kicked to the lame-duck session of Congress.
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Walker was "noncommittal," Evers said, but has publicly indicated he will sign the legislation that Democrats have decried as a lame-duck power grab.
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So dicey are the politics that Republican congressional leaders have been unwilling to commit to a vote even in the postelection lame duck Congress.
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The lame duck is not a time to rush through a complicated bill that paves the way for a new system of tax collection.
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"As we travel to Washington for this lame duck period, House Democrats are anything but lame ducks," Pelosi wrote in a Dear Colleague letter.
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During the 2014 lame-duck session, lawmakers approved a slate of bills that laid out the DHS's cyber responsibilities and officially authorized the NCCIC.
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That defeated the bill because 30 House Republicans, defying lame-duck Speaker Paul Ryan and other party leaders, joined Democrats for radically different reasons.
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Now, during his lame duck period, the President has taken yet another parting shot at moderate Democrats, further weakening what's left of the party.
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A small group of legislators filed a bipartisan bill for a tax on carbon aimed at tackling climate change during this lame duck session.
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Congressional leaders have said that the TPP deal is most likely to get a vote in the lame-duck session after the November elections.
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" Asked if he's open to taking up a nomination in the lame-duck session, the Utah Republican said, "I'd probably be open to it.
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Members of Congress are returning to Washington to finish the work of the 220006th Congress in what's referred to as a lame-duck session.
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"After that I suppose I will be a lame duck, but as proud a duck as ever waddled the earth," Moss wrote to staff.
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Mr. Obama is dealing with other headwinds, not least that he is a lame-duck leader in the last five months of his term.
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The earliest the House could take the deal up is in December when lawmakers return after the midterm elections for the lame-duck session.
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But according to various news reports, attendees were skeptical of how much Biden could achieve in the final year of a lame-duck administration.
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Liberal groups opposed to the TPP argue that Democrats in Congress would face a backlash if they backed Obama's deal in a lame-duck.
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"The weak result could make Angela Merkel a lame duck much faster than international observers and financial markets think," ING economist Carsten Brzeski said.
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It's likelier that the agreement will simply die under her, as under Trump, if Obama can't push it through in the lame-duck session.
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Power grabs in lame-duck sessions aren't that unusual, but critics say the one happening in Wisconsin — and also in Michigan — are particularly egregious.
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Christie's status as a lame-duck governor is another factor weighing against a renewed probe, as is the potential cost to taxpayers, Weinberg said.
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Even in "the best case," in which Judge Garland was confirmed in the lame-duck session of Congress after the presidential election on Nov.
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Republicans' anti-spending bent was evident within days of the election, when the lame-duck Congress convened to finish the annual government-funding bill.
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And with Congress out of session until after the elections, there can be no serious movement on tax policy until the lame-duck session.
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Looking further back, seven nominations in the 19th century were made by a "lame duck" president between the election and inauguration of his successor.
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"I've had conversations with people I've been given the assurance by the Republican leadership that something will happen in the lame-duck," he added.
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Brat and other conservatives have warned that in a lame-duck session, lawmakers might be more likely to approve a budget-busting spending bill.
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Johnson would be a lame duck for the remaining months of his presidency, but the precedent of his impeachment and narrow acquittal was important.
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In addition, there are several rules that could be finalized at any moment during the Lame Duck, making them eligible for review next year.
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"This is about more than 10,000 jobs which are now at risk because of the lame-duck actions by the Obama administration," said Rep.
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But Clinton was a second-term lame duck when he escaped conviction in the Senate after facing a largely-party line House impeachment vote.
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"This is about more than 2628,28503 jobs which are now at risk because of the lame-duck actions by the Obama administration," said Rep.
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Rank-and-file House Republicans are dreading voting on a huge spending deal in the lame-duck session — but they may have no choice.
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Discussions are ongoing, and congressional staff expect to see more visible signs of opposition when Congress reassembles for the lame-duck session next week.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters last week the Senate would not act on the trade deal during the lame-duck session of Congress.
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"Yesterday&aposs strongman is today&aposs lame duck," Kemal Kilicdaroglu said on Tuesday, even as he refused to reflect on his own party&aposs shortcomings.
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If Clinton wins big in November and Democrats retake the Senate, Republicans will still control the Senate for another two months — the "lame duck" period.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel has made herself a lame duck, having announced last year that she will not run again when her term ends in 2021.
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While Schmack was a spectator during the trial, Campbell, by then a lame duck, was the spectator when McCullough was sentenced to life in prison.
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That leaves the current manager, Manuel Pellegrini, as a lame duck even as the team competes for some of the most prestigious prizes in soccer.
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So if Obama can get Garland confirmed during the lame-duck session, it would remove an enormous item from Clinton's to-do list next year.
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Republicans, who have insisted the next president should pick the ninth justice, risk political backlash if they decide to embrace Garland in the lame duck.
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The most procedurally outrageous aspect of the lame-duck Wisconsin GOP power grab is the post-election limitation of the powers of the governor's office.
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That a lame-duck, IDGAF president up against a ticking clock might be full of progressive ideas but won't have time to deliver on them.
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It does not help that Mr Sirisena pledged to serve only a single term—another reason he may soon be viewed as a lame duck.
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"He's going to work his tail off to help the President pass TPP in the lame duck," if it comes to a vote, Weaver said.
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He was immediately beset by speculation that he would become a lame-duck leader and face a behind-the-scenes power struggle to replace him.
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Chris Christie is the unpopular lame duck governor of a state that hates him—he filled out the paperwork just to alleviate his crushing boredom.
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Second, prior lame duck sessions of Congress have tackled and even defeated some of the most difficult challenges in U.S. history – including, notably, ending slavery.
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And he flatly rejected the idea of taking up the nomination in a lame-duck session of Congress before a new president is sworn in.
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"I think it would be a mistake," the Texas Republican said when asked about considering the nominee in a lame-duck session after the elections.
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That would certainly take the nomination passed the so-called political season, but a lame-duck Congress isn't exactly giving the American people a voice.
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The president said he was "very disappointed in Ryan," who Trump said went "lame duck" after he announced he would retire from Congress in January.
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The Detroit News reported that Jones has maintained her spot on the Detroit City Council while she serves in the lame duck session of Congress.
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Britain could be thrust into talks under a lame-duck leader with no clear notion of what Brexit should look like or mandate to negotiate.
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Trump, meanwhile, has often seemed like a lame duck in the first year of his presidency and has been desperately seeking a major legislative accomplishment.
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McConnell has stated the bill will not hit the floor before the election, but left the door open for action in a lame-duck session.
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"This is the problem when you have a lame duck speaker who announces he's leaving eight months in advance," a senior Republican source told Politico.
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"The overwhelming view of the Republican Conference in the Senate is this vacancy should not be filled by this lame-duck president," McConnell said Tuesday.
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In the interim, Congress is holding a "lame duck" session in which Republicans such as Brady will still be in charge of the House agenda.
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President Rouhani's failed legacy of economic integration with the international community will be used to weaken him further leaving him as a lame duck president.
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Congress will need to pass spending legislation in the lame-duck session, since the current stop-gap measure funding the federal government expires in December.
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The senator decided against running for reelection to pursue his White House bid and will now return to the upper chamber as a lame duck.
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At some point in the second term of any presidency, the soaring eagle becomes a lame-duck with more quack than quake in its steps.
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Congress has no incentive to work with a lame duck, which is why many presidents spend their second term focusing on foreign policy, including trade.
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"We're also focused on what mischief they might attempt in the lame-duck, in terms of preparing our members for the longer term," Mozloom said.
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He may be on the verge of becoming the first president to be considered a "lame duck" within the first two months of his presidency.
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He expressed optimism that the "modest progress" being made on government funding and Zika could lead to more bipartisan cooperation in the lame-duck session.
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The caucus is hoping to avoid an omnibus budget bill in the lame-duck, fearing it could be a vehicle for higher taxes and spending.
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Many lawmakers whose legislative careers ends with this lame-duck session may prefer to keep their friends happy with one last vote for corporate welfare.
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Then December saw the "Lame Duck" meme criticising Obama's expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats in response to accusations of Russian involvement in the US election.
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The Philharmonic apparently wasn't willing to present an opera that can stretch, with intermissions, to five hours — at least not for a lame-duck conductor.
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And it was a humbling setback for Mr. Ryan, raising questions about his ability to run an already fractious Republican conference as a lame duck.
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Congressional leaders should reject all attempts to attach an Ex-Im rider to any government funding bill now or during the upcoming "lame duck" session.
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House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan is still pushing to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen as lawmakers return to Washington for the lame-duck session.
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The Democratic Party must go on record in opposition to holding a vote on the TPP during the lame duck session of Congress and beyond.
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"The overwhelming view of the Republican conference in the Senate is this vacancy should not be filled by this lame-duck president," he told reporters.
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Without agreement among Mr. Rosselló and legislative leaders about a nominee they all support, the Legislature could refuse to confirm the lame-duck governor's pick.
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Without agreement among Mr. Rosselló and legislative leaders about a nominee they all support, the Legislature could refuse to confirm the lame-duck governor's pick.
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Nobody seems to be treating the visit as a "lame-duck," said Rick Rossow, Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at CSIS, to CNBC.
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But the Democratic Senate chose not to act on his nomination, and rejected two more nominees Fillmore submitted during his lame-duck period in 1853.
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If the GOP lost in a Senate race contested over a Supreme Court seat, a lame duck confirmation would be a bad look and bad precedent.
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The only major piece of legislation expected to pass during the post-election "lame duck" session is an important bill to boost funding for modern medicine.
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The council has been rocked recently by political scandal and some alderman say they're in no hurry to do the bidding of a lame duck mayor.
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"(Opposition) members of parliament from both houses will not attend the intended opening of the house because the president is a lame duck president," Wetangula said.
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Republican leaders have said there is no point in bringing the trade deal for a vote in the "lame-duck" session of Congress after the election.
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In the interim, Congress is holding a short, "lame duck" session until mid-December in which Republicans, including Brady, remain in charge of the House agenda.
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That makes it unlikely Qureshi will be confirmed in the months left of Obama's tenure, unless lawmakers take up his nomination in a lame duck session.
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"I would never underestimate an outgoing U.S. president as a lame duck," de Mistura said in an interview in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper according to Reuters.
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Congress comes back on Tuesday for the lame-duck session after Democrats in last week's mid-term elections gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The second item to watch during the lame-duck session is a bundle of technical corrections — areas of the tax law that need to be clarified.
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There's an outside chance that a lame-duck Senate, fearing that a President Clinton would nominate a more liberal justice, will hold hearings and confirm Garland.
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The first post-election votes on abortion rights are likely to take place this week in Ohio, where legislators are meeting in a lame-duck session.
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Before kicking off the 115th Congress, however, congressional Republicans need to wrap up unfinished business in the lame-duck session scheduled for late November and December.
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The Taxpayers Protection Alliance and many other groups and individuals urged Congress to avoid a lame duck and fund the government past Christmas and into 85033.
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So by corrupting democracy for this one big, lame-duck vote, our politicians can undermine and limit democracy for many years and even decades to come.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ruled out confirming President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in a lame duck session after November's election.
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So matter what eventually happens in the lame-duck session, we need to think about what TPP would look like in a Clinton or Trump administration.
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It increasingly appears that their best option among the probable alternatives is a lame-duck confirmation of Merrick Garland (as one Republican senator has already admitted).
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"Basically, the markets think there is a very high probability that there is a vote in the lame-duck period" for Mr. Obama, Mr. Rothschild said.
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Even though last year's omnibus appropriations bill wasn't passed during a lame-duck session, many Republicans are reluctant to vote on a similar measure this year.
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McConnell also reiterated this week that the 21st Century Cures bill is one of his two priorities—along with funding the government—for the lame duck.
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On the contrary, he had 11 months remaining in his term, which is nine more than what is normally considered to be a lame-duck period.
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Clinton, if you are elected, will you urge the Senate to confirm Mr. Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick B. Garland, in its lame-duck session?
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Some House conservatives want it to run into 2017 so that a lame-duck session of Congress doesn't have to consider the matter after the elections.
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Democrats could retake the Senate in November, and lame-duck Republicans could fail to push another nominee through before the new Congress takes over in January.
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His remarks sent electricity through the reform movement and breathed new life into federal legislation that could still pass this year in a lame duck session.
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A small bipartisan group of senators are urging leadership to extend a delay of ObamaCare's health insurance tax before the end of the lame-duck session.
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And other Democratic TPP critics say they expect the liberal icon to use his new star power to lead the charge against a lame-duck vote.
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Behind the scenes, several other Republicans have discussed the lame-duck option and voiced concerns that Clinton might nominate a judge who is even more liberal.
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For Mugabe, the end appears to be nigh after 37 years in power, and he looks set to be little more than a lame duck president.
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Besides, the Constitution does not contain exceptions for the final year of a president's term, or for the "lame-duck period," which is eight months away.
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The lame-duck session, which drew hundreds to the state Capitol demanding that their votes be respected, is, in a way, a fitting end to Gov.
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It's unclear how the impeachment issue will ultimately resolve itself in the House and what action could be taken in a lame-duck session of Congress.
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The lame-duck laws were passed after Evers and state Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) were elected but before they took office, severely limiting their power.
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Moreover, Congress is teeing up big stuff for a certain postelection lame-duck session, possibly including the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and the Garland nomination.
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That's not a terrible performance considering the iPhone is still in the "lame duck" period ahead of an iPhone 230 launch widely expected in the fall.
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That's not a terrible performance considering the iPhone is still in the "lame duck" period ahead of an iPhone 8 launch widely expected in the fall.
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Which would be pretty important if it's true, since the Obama administration's plan is to pass the agreement during the lame-duck session of Congress, i.e.
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"These aren't the final months of a second-term constitutionally lame duck presidency with a presidential election fast approaching," McConnell said on the floor Thursday morning.
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"In lame ducks, all the rules seem to get muddled," said Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona, a Republican who counts himself among the lame-duck loathers.
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"What's going to happen is they're going to come back in the lame-duck session and plus up spending," said Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky.
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Mary Fallin, the Republican lame duck, leaving office with dismal approval ratings, Democrats believe they could be competitive in what is generally a deeply conservative state.
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There will probably be no more fruitless gesture of President Obama's lame-duck term than his fourth and likely final visit to Saudi Arabia last week.
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And once he went lame duck it was just really an exercise in waving to people and the power was gone, so I was very disappointed.
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The Iraqi parliament's resolution regarding removal of all foreign forces from Iraqi soil, formulated by lame-duck Shia prime minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, is non-binding.
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As this lame-duck president knows, it's dead on arrival in Congress, because House Republicans are committed to affordable American energy and a strong U.S. economy.
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And now that Democrats will take the House, there's no clear path forward, unless the Senate votes in the lame-duck session, which seems highly unlikely.
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We must defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership and make certain that that bad trade deal does not get a vote in a lame-duck session of Congress.
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It hopes to make gains on these issues during the lame-duck session of Congress over the next two months in order to build momentum for 2019.
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It's essentially a tool a recently victorious party in control of Congress and the White House can use to cancel moves made by a lame-duck administration.
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To be considered in the lame-duck session, the administration would have to submit a final legal text of the agreement before the end of the month.
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So the lame duck president, stripped of the overwhelming public support he enjoyed only a year and a half earlier, chose to resign in disgrace that summer.
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White House officials also say movement on criminal justice reform -- long the priority of a ideologically diverse group of unlikely allies -- is likely during the lame duck.
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Presidential politics If Hillary Clinton were to win in November, there is a possibility that Obama's pick, Garland, could go before Congress during the lame duck session.
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They want to avoid a lame duck session because they worry any broader spending deal negotiated in December will be a deal with items they oppose. Rep.
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Republicans across the US are trying to exploit lame-duck sessions before they leave office; France is in the midst of its worst riots in 50 years.
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The top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is casting doubt on the prospect of Congress finishing a waterways bill in the lame-duck session.
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Washington (CNN)Don't even say the words "lame duck" around the White House as President Barack Obama prepares to deliver his final State of the Union address.
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But the leadership certainly appears to want a continuing resolution that only extends to the lame duck, and Democrats are eager to help them with that preference.
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And Trump needed to prove that he's capable of accomplishing something—in the first 106 days of his administration, he has often seemed like a lame duck.
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In reality, she wouldn't back down and the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact is dead if it isn't enacted in a lame-duck session after this year's election.
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"She has reaffirmed her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), now and in a possible lame-duck session of Congress," the CWA said in a statement.
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While it is unusual for the administration to override such a hold, Gould said she could see the notification in the lame-duck session after the midterms.
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The 2016 political season is finally here, and on the Democrats' side of the aisle, President Obama is a lame-duck president with an unfettered ideological bent.
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As elected officials return to Washington for the lame-duck session to assess the future and prepare for a new administration, we urge careful and measured action.
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CHAMBER CEO PREDICTS LAME DUCK TRADE DEAL VOTE: A top U.S. business leader expects a vote on a massive Asia-Pacific trade agreement after the November elections.
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"Passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a lame-duck would be the most cynical type of politics," said Rick Manning, the president of Americans for Limited Government.
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In the lame duck session of 1980, after he had been defeated, Bayh worked with Bob Dole to push through the Bayh-Dole legislation reforming patent policy.
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"This important agreement is not ready to be considered during the lame duck and will remain on hold until President Trump decides the path forward," he said.
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During a Tuesday telephone call, Trump "did urge him to try to get this done in the lame duck," a senior White House official told The Hill.
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If he determines it has sufficient support, then he will weigh it against other lame-duck priorities like nominations, the farm bill and a government funding measure.
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It seems unlikely that the agency will be able to push through this reform, which would save consumers billions of dollars annually, during the lame-duck period.
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But the soothing effect of anything Carter has to say will be limited because he is a "lame-duck", and does not represent Trump's still-undefined policies.
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Clinton, like many Democrats on Capitol Hill, is calling congressional leaders to punt the TPP to next year and avoid any votes in the lame-duck session.
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Up the road in Raleigh, the lame duck General Assembly has passed a new voter ID law before the party loses its supermajority in the next session.
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Congress should make it a priority before the end of the lame duck session to pass the bill and send it to President Trump for his signature.
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The lame duck, heavily gerrymandered Republican Legislature plans to vote on Tuesday to limit the powers of the incoming governor and attorney general, who are — surprise — Democrats.
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Obama has only 24 months left to serve, and many of his Republican opponents are arguing his "lame duck" status means he shouldn't nominate a replacement justice.
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What is needed for a Senate Republican to speak courageously: lame-duck status like Mr. Corker, grave illness like Senator John McCain, womanhood like Senator Susan Collins?
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The episode raised questions about whether Mr. Ryan, who recently announced his intention to retire next year, can run the fractious Republican conference as a lame duck.
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"He is a lame duck, but incredible as it sounds, he can count on this base because they, too, are implicated in many things," Mr. Melo said.
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Mr. de Blasio, who is facing lame duck status with less than two years left in office, had his approval rating fall below 35 percent last year.
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"We are going to do everything we can to make sure TPP does not come to the floor of Congress during a lame-duck session," he said.
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The lame duck session includes suspenseful deadlines and must-pass legislation, plus an ample menu of political dramas, including leadership elections and disagreements over funding (The Hill).
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"A defeat for Macri's coalition would weaken his legislative shield and depict the image of a lame duck," said analyst Ignacio Labaqui of consultancy Medley Global Advisors.
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Tonight's highlights include a tough question for Hillary Clinton, a fight over data breaches and more Pacific trade deal optimism from the Department of Lame Duck Priorities.
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Some lawmakers said the bumpy past few weeks for the Speaker are just part of the job, and not necessarily a reflection of his lame-duck status.
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The White House on Wednesday dismissed the idea of waiting for the lame-duck session of Congress to hold a vote on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
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Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are pushing to extend government funding into early 2017, wary of a massive bipartisan spending deal in the lame-duck.
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By passing a long term continuing resolution, lawmakers will avoid one crafted during a lame duck Congress, when retiring politicians commit taxpayers to more spending and debt.
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"She fits our district," which, aside from an odd two-month blip in a lame-duck session in 2012, has been represented by Republicans for 52 years.
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The key to the productive 2015 was that with Obama a lame duck, Republicans had no special incentive to try to make him look like a failure.
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It's been a six-year lame-duck presidency on domestic policy, largely because of this one election and the way the Democratic Party failed to see the consequences.
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Dave Brat of Virginia, who said whether there will be a challenge to the speaker depends on what happens in the post-election, lame-duck session of Congress.
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The Lame Duck Amendment was adopted in 1934; it moved the beginning and end of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to Jan.
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There is talk that the next party leader could try to oust Merkel — effectively something of a lame duck ahead of the end of her term — before 2021.
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Republican legislative majorities in other states where Democrats gained power in November have also sought to use lame-duck sessions to push through priorities and hamstring incoming Democrats.
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Axios' Jonathan Swan explains that although Congress could technically pass a tax cut in the lame duck session, Trump's proposal has no chance of passing any time soon.
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It would also put more pressure on industry groups to get their small-but-significant lobbying priorities, like pharma's "donut hole fix," done in the lame-duck session.
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"The president's weakening clout and lame-duck status are likely to slow her efforts to pass a constitutional amendment that would introduce a semi-presidential system," Chang said.
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And in the face of that, Republican state leaders are using the lame-duck session to push forward government changes that would limit Democrats' power in the state.
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Congress also needs to approve USMCA, which might not happen this year given the postelection lame-duck session and other pressing issues, such as keeping the government funded.
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Yet moving on Garland in the lame-duck session would be seen as a major capitulation by McConnell, who has refused to take any steps on the nominee.
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As we head into a lame-duck session, there are two major tax issues that still need to be resolved toward the end of the year, said Kaeding.
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RELATED: White House fights 'lame duck' image ahead of State of the Union Here are five things to watch for in Obama's final address on Tuesday night: 1.
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Of course, Trump could also be playing a game, assuaging Obama fans during the lame duck only to throw them and Obama under the bus come January 20.
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Earlier this month, McConnell was blunt when he described the chances of the TPP receiving a vote during the lame-duck session of Congress after the general election.
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Meanwhile, House Democrats and anti-TPP groups on Wednesday will ask voters to call their lawmakers and urge them to reject a lame-duck vote on the TPP.
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Like lame-duck presidents before him, Obama submitted a final budget that includes funding for his top legacy priorities, including combating climate change and expanding health insurance coverage.
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Make peace with being a lame duck before it actually happens and your life, your successor's life, and the lives of your colleagues will be a lot better.
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Asked Friday if there was a way to resolve the request for a timeline for her departure and her resistance to making herself a lame duck, Pelosi demurred.
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Some thought there was a chance Garland, widely considered to be a moderate liberal, would be confirmed in a lame-duck session if Hillary Clinton won the election.
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Congress typically held lame-duck sessions before the Constitution's 2628th Amendment, which was ratified in 28500, changed each new session's starting date to January 6900 from March 2628.
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Incoming Secretary of State-elect Benson released a public statement about a piece of lame duck legislation that aims to change campaign finance law and curtail her power.
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In Wisconsin, lawmakers have used their lame-duck legislative session to pass new restrictions on early voting -- an obvious attempt to reduce turnout among Democrats in the future.
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It became the first South Korean governing party in 16 years without a parliamentary majority, leaving Ms. Park to face the prospect of being an early lame duck.
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OPTIMISM RETURNS TO ENERGY BILL TALKS: Key lawmakers negotiating toward a wide-ranging energy reform bill were optimistic Thursday about getting it passed during the lame duck session.
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The loss by Park's Saenuri Party means her government can expect more legislative deadlock, and a prominent newspaper on Thursday said she now led a lame-duck administration.
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It leaves him as a rare powerful and relatively popular president in a region where several other large countries are currently led by deeply unpopular lame-duck leaders.
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But that seems a bit out of character with Obama's post-2014 "lame duck" period, which has seen an astonishingly productive flurry of executive actions and incremental steps.
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Here is a look at five of the most important fights in the lame-duck Congress — and how they'll influence the much bigger battles looming around the corner.
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Meanwhile, another power play is unfolding in Michigan, where a lame duck Republican Legislature is also scheming to strip the incoming Democrats of various powers of their offices.
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In Michigan, where a lame-duck session fight similar to Wisconsin's is playing out, Democrats won 53 percent of the vote but just 47 percent of those seats.
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But among Democrats, as they enter a lame-duck session of Congress that begins on Tuesday, there are quiet conversations about a desire for change at the top.
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While White House officials considered pushing the revised deal through the coming lame-duck session, they did not want to risk a backlash from lawmakers in both parties.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is no stranger to international summits, but she enters this one as something of a lame duck and with an economy that's sputtering ominously.
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That left the nation's top lawyer with just a year and a half in office, during Obama's lame duck period in which policy efforts are likely to stall.
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Collin Peterson, ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, told reporters Wednesday that he would focus on passing the legislation during the lame-duck session, according to Reuters.
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"The Democratic Party must go on record in opposition to holding a vote on the trade deal during the lame-duck session of Congress and beyond," Sanders said.
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Radicals like Wendell Phillips had already warned, prior to impeachment, what a lame-duck Johnson might do with the power he would retain if he were not removed.
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House leaders could revive this year's budget resolution — which was never brought up for a vote — during the lame-duck session that starts next week, according to lawmakers.
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"It could be a lame-duck strategy, that we do it after the election," Shuster told a meeting of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
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At the same time, the lame-duck Obama administration set in motion a plan to use FBI surveillance data and a nonstop media offensive to destroy Trump's presidency.
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Too many Americans are frustrated, and people on both sides of the aisle are tired of the gridlock that has brought a whole new meaning to lame duck.
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Scenario 4: Kavanaugh fails, Republicans vote on a new nominee in the Lame Duck Kavanaugh's nomination, as CNN's Ryan Struyk wrote, was already unusually close to an election.
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The more Mr. Putin becomes a lame duck, analysts said, the less influence he may have in choosing a successor and the more Kremlin insiders will assert themselves.
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They are pushing for a clean reauthorization sponsored by Stefanik, which Republicans say Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected during the lame-duck session of Congress last year.
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They passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ("the stimulus"), plus a couple of extra smaller stimulus bills and then a couple more during the lame-duck period.
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The greatest crisis in the nation's history grew out of a distended transition between a lame-duck President who refused to act and an inexperienced President facing unprecedented challenges.
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And it's not just one losing gubernatorial candidate pulling an undemocratic fast one during the lame duck session — it's the near-unanimous decision of two different state legislative caucuses.
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"The election results have legitimized Rajoy, who some people had prematurely dubbed a lame duck," argues Francisco de Borja Lasheras, an expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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In 1972, Yale Hirsch, founder of the Stock Trader's Almanac, discovered that the Lame Duck Amendment to the Constitution changed the political calendar, and the January Barometer was born.
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"Even if Renzi manages to stay in office, I think he will be a lame duck and may struggle to get anything done until the next election," said Lenz.
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Before the current lame-duck Congress ends in mid-December, House Democrats will choose a party leader for 2019-2020, with their current leader Nancy Pelosi the front-runner.
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"Everyone knows Temer is a lame duck now, and nobody believes in social security reform anymore," said Fabio Knijnik, managing director for Sao Paulo-based wealth fund K2 Capital.
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If Hillary Clinton had won the election, Mr Obama might have made a last-ditch push during the lame-duck session of the outgoing Congress, which started this week.
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In May, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley was asked point blank by CNN whether he'd take action in a lame duck session if Clinton were to win in November.
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Securing votes in a lame-duck session after the election might require enticing members of Congress with special provisions to their liking, perhaps on intellectual property or agricultural markets.
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Even so, you might wonder what it is that Congress is doing today – one of a handful of working days left before the lame duck session after the election.
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With both presidential candidates opposed to TPP, and Mr Obama's chances of pushing it through the lame-duck Congress looking ragged, it is a test America will probably fail.
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As a lame duck president, Obama doesn't have much to lose and could accomplish more if he can find allies in Congress to compromise on the more moderate proposals.
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With the possibility of 50 more rules, the lame duck tally could push this regulatory cost figure to $813 billion ($21625 billion base plus $2900 billion in future rules).
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The best way to preserve their austerity legacy is to push it through Congress now, before the September 30 deadline, rather than seeing it unravel in the lame duck.
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Ex-Im faces more problems with Trump: Supporters of the embattled Export-Import Bank are urging congressional lawmakers to restore its full lending powers during the lame-duck session.
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Negotiators weren't able to reconcile the two versions of the bill prior to the October recess and are expected to finish in the lame-duck session after the Nov.
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But a CR that bypasses the lame-duck session would be bad news for House defense hawks, who have spent all year pushing for increased defense spending in 2017.
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Plans to seek council approval for as much as $10 billion in pension debt have been delayed in the wake of Emanuel's lame-duck status and rising interest rates.
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What comes next: It's going to be almost impossible to move major legislation that isn't a government-funding bill during the lame duck session to start after the midterms.
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A couple weeks went by, and it appeared that the clock may run out on the lame duck session before the First Step Act had a chance at passage.
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McConnell did not explicitly rule out moving an ObamaCare repeal in the lame duck session after the election but his answer didn't indicate that he's giving it serious thought.
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But a CR that bypasses the lame-duck session would be bad news for House defense hawks, who have spent all year pushing for increased defense spending in 220006.
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The notion that legislators and parties that have lost the consent of the governed would try to pass legislation in lame-duck sessions was deemed reprehensible by most everyone.
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In Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina, lame-duck sessions of Republican-controlled state legislatures are working on measures that would alter the balance of power in the GOP's favor.
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That timeline that has been fiercely opposed by conservative groups like Heritage and Freedom Partners because they oppose any funding deals during a lame-duck session after the election.
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Any movement on a new tax-cuts bill would have to wait until the lame-duck session, however, as the House and Senate are out until after the election.
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The Huffington Post reported that conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus have discussed different strategies for killing a lame-duck session, perhaps by voting en bloc against procedural motions.
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But with only limited time left in the lame-duck session, GOP leaders are wary about bringing up the measure because it could dominate the floor schedule next week.
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With just days to go in the lame duck session, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has all but ruled out a vote, The Washington Post's Seung Min Kim said.
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The Senate-passed version of the bill does not include that tactic, and House-Senate conference negotiations are expected to finish in Congress's lame-duck session after the Nov.
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Other advisers doubt it would be worth Mr. Obama's political capital in the lame-duck period after the election and worry it would be unwelcome if Hillary Clinton wins.
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Trump won the election at a time when stock market valuations were already high, and watched markets soar during the lame-duck months; they've only gone up since then.
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Russian officials have portrayed the sanctions as a last act of a lame-duck president and suggested Trump could reverse them when he takes over from Obama, a Democrat.
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Only a handful of Republicans attended the Wednesday hearing, but it checked a box to move more judges to the floor during the lame-duck session after Election Day.
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To its critics, the Legislature is essentially using the lame-duck session to settle scores with both the voters who refused to elect Republicans and the Democrats they chose.
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The law included some drafting errors that Republicans are now trying to fix in the lame-duck session before they cede control of the House to Democrats next year.
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The hope is to move the bill during the lame duck session, before the chaos of the new Congress, with its newly Democratic House majority, takes hold in January.
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The resulting uncertainty puts the political elite off balance, helping to ensure that Mr. Putin avoids becoming a lame duck and remains the pivot around which the country revolves.
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But approving a short-term bill this month would give Congress more time to approve a series of "minibuses," or smaller groupings of appropriations measure, in the lame-duck.
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Still, Democrats insist that Congress should approve the Flint aid sooner rather than later and remain skeptical it would be resolved in the lame-duck session after the election.
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Congressional Republican leaders have said that the earliest they would bring up the TPP for a vote on Capitol Hill is during the lame-duck session after the election.
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Despite expectations for a "lame duck " quarter ahead of the iPhone 8 launch, Apple sold 41 million iPhones during the fiscal third quarter, surpassing 1.2 billion total iPhones sold.
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Chuck Grassley said in early October that Republicans would try to push it through during the lame duck session, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has knocked down the idea.
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"There's been a discussion about whether we should try to ask for the delay of the elections until after we do the lame duck," said one Freedom Caucus members.
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Congressional leaders have been pessimistic about the odds of ratifying the deal either during the short session in September, or during the brief "lame duck" session after the Nov.
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"Once Regulation Day passes, the next Congress will have an opportunity to review the administration's Lame Duck rules," wrote Sam Batkins, regulatory policy directory at the American Action Forum.
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Source: FactSet Despite expectations for a "lame duck " quarter ahead of the iPhone 8 launch, Apple sold 41 million iPhones during the quarter, surpassing 1.2 billion total iPhones sold.
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Another possibility is that the Republican caucus, already fidgeting, decides not to wait for more than seven months with a lame duck leader and a leadership fight bubbling beneath.
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" Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister: "We now have a lame-duck Prime Minister and are saddled with a lame-duck Brexit deal" Stephen Martin, Director General of the Institute of Directors (IoD): "We are approaching the biggest economic change this country has faced in a generation, companies and their employees deserve to have their political leaders focused on what really matters: allowing people to work and conduct business with the least disruption possible.
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A federal judge on Thursday blocked cuts to early voting in Wisconsin that were enacted late last year by the state's Republican-controlled legislature during a controversial lame duck session.
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Birch highlighted the Conservative Party leadership contest as one potential diplomatic pitfall, with the U.S. president "unlikely" to show much respect to what he sees as a lame-duck leader.
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That was an important issue I considered in both of the last two elections when I voted for President Obama, who is not a lame duck until after the election.
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Several other pressing issues await senators when they get back for the lame-duck session after the election, such as the farm bill and another deadline to fund the government.
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The difference when they&aposre talking about what happened with Garland when Obama was a lame duck and he had the vacancy, McConnell delayed it until after the presidential election.
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Despite the apparent bipartisan support, the lame-duck Senate under McConnell may not have the bandwidth to take on the bill before the next Congress takes over on Jan. 3.
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In its lame-duck session early Wednesday, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin legislature worked under cover of night to strip the incoming Democratic governor of the power to administer the law.
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Wisconsin's Republican-controlled legislature took a highly unusual step in the lame-duck session Wednesday morning and approved a raft of measures that will strip powers from incoming Democratic Gov.
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It will need to push hard in the lame-duck session to get its Medicare "donut hole fix," which Democrats will be less inclined to provide once they take power.
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Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Senate Republican, said "I'm still thinking it through" when asked if he'd be open to confirming Garland in a lame-duck session if Clinton wins.
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" Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the majority whip, said, "We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame-duck president.
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been adamant that Obama's successor should select Scalia's replacement and that he will not consider Garland's nomination during a post-election "lame duck" session.
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The Dark Tower is a lame-duck adaptation destined to enrage book fans and bewilder everyone else, but at least it seemed poised to give the actor a prime spotlight.
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The economic and political storm has shaken the lame duck Temer government ahead of October elections and rattled nerves about the path forward for Petrobras, Latin America's biggest oil producer.
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John McCain might develop some mavericky process objections to slamming a bill through with the vote of a lame-duck senator who the voters of Alabama rejected in a primary.
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In a case brought by labor unions, a second lower court judge, Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington, blocked several of the laws passed during the December lame-duck session.
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But he vows to fight the lame-duck label, and his busy start to the election year means he will be an issue even if he is not a candidate.
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That is why it is important for Congress to avoid a lame duck session that will surely be filled with a laundry list of last minute giveaways to special interests.
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"It would be intellectually dishonest for me to say that at this point," Grassley said when asked if he'd be open to considering the nominee in a lame-duck session.
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A lame duck vote The Senate could wait until after November's general election, but before a new Senate and new president take office in January, to move Garland's nomination. Sen.
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Instead, the committee majority is hoping to put out a joint statement with the panel's Democrats before the recess pledging support for passing the bill in the lame-duck session.
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Mindful of what's ahead, conservatives are pushing to close off the possibility of a lame-duck session now, before Congress leaves town in early October for a final campaigning sprint.
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The lame-duck Congress has just a few weeks to avert a partial shutdown with new appropriations or come to some agreement to punt any remaining policy impasses into 21625.
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The bills were introduced in the Michigan's lame-duck session, which could last two or three more weeks, and will die if they don't get passed before the session ends.
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When Biden announced the supposed Biden Rule (on June 25, 1992), however, President George H.W. Bush was not a lame duck but, rather, a first-term president running for reelection.
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If Obama is truly concerned about Russia and its growing ability to play spoiler, he can and should choose to finally do something about it in his lame duck period.
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A decision on pursuing the issuance of as much as $10 billion of pension debt had been delayed in the wake of Emanuel's lame-duck status and rising interest rates.
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Though re-elected triumphantly in 2001, Khatami soon became a lame duck due to their crackdown and the revelation of Iran's secret nuclear programme, which the president did not control.
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Senate Republican leaders are tamping down talk in their conference of voting on Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court in the lame-duck session after the November elections. Sen.
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But a bipartisan bill doesn't mean there is any shortage of controversy, with some groups issuing strong warnings against the roughly 1,000 page bill moving in the lame duck session.
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In the wake of the November elections, lobbyists are talking to members of Congress and the Obama administration about getting these rules relaxed, maybe even during the lame-duck session.
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Though re-elected triumphantly in 2001, Khatami soon became a lame duck due to their crackdown and the revelation of Iran's secret nuclear program, which the president did not control.
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But here's what Trump left out: He's a rare, orange-feathered lame duck President whose most significant achievement may turn out to be his unintentional rebuilding of the Democratic Party.
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Two weeks after the 2015 election, the outgoing government-controlled legislature appointed 13 new justices to the supreme court in the lame-duck sessions (the court has 32 in total).
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With Congress' lame-duck session less than a month away, both Republicans and Democrats are salivating at the chance to renew a variety of tax handouts to green energy companies.
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What, you might ask, could be worse than a thoroughly failed presidential candidate returning home as a lame-duck governor to a $10 billion budget deficit and a recalcitrant legislature?
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But behind the scenes, the Republican conference has been restive and many members privately question whether it's tenable for him to last out the year as a lame duck Speaker.
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Some Republican senators have said if Clinton wins, the Senate should confirm Garland in a "lame-duck" post-election session out of fear Clinton would name someone far more liberal.
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On Saturday a thoroughly relegated Aston Villa played a Watford side with a lame duck manager and the heartache of missing the FA Cup Final still fresh in their minds.
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Hatch later in the day floated the idea of holding confirmation hearings and a vote in the lame-duck session between the election and the start of the new Congress.
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But that opened him to criticism from members of the opposition, who said that his lame-duck status would weaken his ability to carry out his duties as interior minister.
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Even more striking, lame duck presidents have nominated 11 people to fill vacancies on the Court after the November election and before the subsequent inauguration — and the Senate confirmed seven.
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Part of what makes the moves in Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina unusual is that all three states can have lame duck sessions of their legislatures in the first place.
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Leaders of the minimum-wage ballot initiative that Republicans have now short-circuited have said they will seek to have the lame-duck reversal of the wage law ruled unconstitutional.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell previously said approval of the USMCA was a "next year" issue, and it was unrealistic to take up the agreement during the lame-duck session.
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It started with the lame-duck session, before he took office when the GOP-controlled legislature decided to yank back some gubernatorial powers before a Democrat could take the seat.
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If Mr. Ossoff pulls out a victory, Mr. Swint said, Democrats will probably use it to show Mr. Trump's weakness — "that this guy is a lame duck already," he said.
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" The president voiced optimism that the deal could still pass during the lame-duck session of Congress after the election, when the deal won't be used as "a political football.
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With the 115th Congress in the midst of its lame duck session, the White House and a group of Republicans are making a final attempt to pass criminal justice reform.
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First, there was the flurry of bills that the lame-duck governor released after the election outlining a jaw-droppingly shortsighted recovery plan that flatly ignored fiscal and political reality.
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Johnson scraped through his impeachment trial by one vote in the Senate, but for the rest of his term he was a lame duck, repudiated by his party and country.
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Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, have predicted a final bill will not pass before the post-election lame duck session of Congress.
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And, regardless of the outcome in November, Republicans are going to have a fight with Democrats over the funding of a border wall in the lame-duck session in December.
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Members of the far-right Freedom Caucus teamed with moderate Republicans on Friday to sink the farm bill, a major legislative priority and legacy item for the lame-duck Speaker.
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He'll meet with leaders from countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, giving him an opportunity to plug the landmark agreement ahead of the lame-duck session of Congress.
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Even if the CDU makes its leadership decisions quickly, some candidates could work with Merkel until the end of her term although she would be something of a lame duck.
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For now, these conservative rebels are holding their fire as Ryan negotiates a 10-week continuing resolution, or CR, and prepares for lame-duck budget talks for fiscal year 2017.
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Chargers and Raiders fans can't even start mourning now but rather have to suffer through lame-duck seasons without knowing for sure to prepare for their hearts to be broken.
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A federal judge struck down Wisconsin Republican's law restricting early voting, blocking a key part of the GOP's hastily pushed-through slate of lame-duck power grab bills that Gov.
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UPS is lobbying members of Congress during the summer recess to get TPP approved this year, most likely in the lame duck session after the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8.
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They are little different from the "Clinton Parameters", which were also set out by a lame-duck administration 16 years ago, and will carry considerably less weight, particularly with Mr Trump.
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No FBI director in history has ever resigned during the lame-duck session, and the tradition ("norm" as they say) is that a director will serve a full 10-year term.
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The announcement of Novès's appointment before the World Cup sent Saint-André into the tournament a lame duck, but any other major rugby country would likely have fired him long before.
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Wicker said he "wouldn't be surprised" if top Republican leaders decide if Clinton wins to take up during a lame duck session the long-stalled nomination of Garland to the court.
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The unlikely partnership comes as the White House makes a final full-court push to persuade Republican congressional leaders to approve the deal in a "lame duck" session after the Nov.
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Raising further eyebrows is that Masayoshi Son, the chair of Sprint's Japanese parent company SoftBank, has been aggressively courting Trump since the lame-duck era, lavishing him with praise and visits.
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Some would argue that Congress should not pass major legislation in this so-called "lame duck" session, and instead leave pending matters—such as criminal justice reform—to the 115th Congress.
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"For the first time, Clinton signaled she will personally work to kill the corporate-written TPP if it comes up after the election in an unaccountable lame-duck Congress," Green said.
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If Ryan publicly lets on that he's a lame duck, "his fundraising capacity and dealmaking leverage would be vastly diminished, making the House all the more difficult to govern," Politco reports.
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While it is unclear whether the widespread calls for impeachment will lead to an actual unseating, all signs are pointing to Park's remaining term as a stunningly unpopular lame-duck president.
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Given the numbers, Marge Baker, executive vice president of the People for the American Way, said Republicans would be "crazy" not to hold a confirmation vote in the lame-duck session.
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An agreement between the White House and Republican leaders in Congress on patent protections would be expected to boost TPP's chances for passage during the lame-duck session after the elections.
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"A lame-duck Congress should not vote on an agreement of this consequence, it would be an end-run around the American people immediately following an election," the House members wrote.
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Nominations High on the to-do for the lame-duck session are dozens of executive and judicial nominations as Senate Republicans have homed in on their ability to confirm Trump's nominees.
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" Dominic Raab, a Tory justice minister campaigning for Leave, declared his belief that Britons would not be "blackmailed by anyone, let alone a lame duck US president on his way out.
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David Cameron, Britain's lame-duck prime minister, did not immediately trigger Article 50—the provision in European treaties about a member state leaving the EU—bequeathing that decision to his successor.
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After sound political defeat in the election of 1800 by Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans, the lame-duck Federalist Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801, expanding the federal judiciary.
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This has dashed hopes that Temer's lame duck government can push through Congress business friendly measures such as the privatization of Brazil's largest utility, Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, known as Eletrobras.
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These conservatives want to avoid a lame-duck session because they think that's when Obama and congressional leaders will negotiate a massive omnibus package that boosts spending levels for next year.
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"I'm convinced that there's going to be help for Flint in the lame duck," he said before the vote, referring to the session of Congress after the presidential election in November.
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Some Senate Republicans, seeking to avoid letting Democrats have a say in the matter, are urging Trump to rush through the agreement in the lame duck session, but that appears unlikely.
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"Signing the lame-duck legislation would be an especially classless way for Walker to leave office; it will tarnish his reputation in ways that I'm not sure he grasps," he wrote.
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In Warsaw, Mr. Obama will sit next to Britain's lame-duck prime minister, David Cameron, whose political career was ended by his miscalculation over holding the referendum on European Union membership.
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Another lawmaker close to McConnell said it would be "insincere" for Republicans to turn around in the lame duck and consider Garland after refusing for months to even hold a hearing.
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While such an agreement has remained elusive, it could be an easier lift in the lame-duck session when lawmakers no longer have the pressure of an election looming over them.
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I don't understand that because Clinton, during the campaign, made it very clear that she did not want to see the TPP appear on the floor during the lame-duck session.
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They strategized behind closed doors on Wednesday about how to press for their priorities during the lame-duck session, as well as under a potential President Donald J. Trump, aides said.
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But maybe: McConnell did not explicitly rule out moving an ObamaCare repeal in the lame duck session after the election but his answer didn't indicate that he's giving it serious thought.
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By the end of the day, Republican leaders made clear they were sticking to their original position and flatly ruled out any action on the nomination during the lame duck session.
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What happens in Congress in the time President Obama has left — during what's known as the "lame-duck session" — will have a huge impact on the lives of millions of Americans.
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"Signing the lame-duck legislation would be an especially classless way for Walker to leave office; it will tarnish his reputation in ways that I'm not sure he grasps," Sykes writes.
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The first scenario — the "bridge burner" — can be downright dangerous, according to Stanford professors Dave Evans and Bill Burnett, and the second — the "2-week lame duck" — isn't much more helpful.
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President George Bush was a lame-duck president, three weeks away from Mr. Clinton's inauguration, when he traveled on New Year's Day 1993 to shake hands with troops deployed to Somalia.
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Furious about the performance of Chief Justice John Marshall, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by Jefferson's lame-duck predecessor, the president targeted Justice Chase, an ardent Federalist, for impeachment.
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The S&P 500 soared 11.7% on average in years when the president runs for reelection, compared to an average gain of only 2.4% if the president is a lame duck.
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Both initiatives were set to be on the ballot this November before Republican lawmakers short-circuited the process by passing the language — before altering it during the lame-duck legislative session.
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It's no accident that the federal energy bill is rumored to be one of the few pieces of legislation under consideration for a potential lame duck session after the November elections.
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" In her recent comments, Pelosi declined to lay down any sort of timeline for when she would hand off the baton, saying she's not going to make herself a "lame duck.
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Distracted by domestic disagreements over Brexit, and by a race to replace the lame-duck prime minister, Theresa May, the British government currently has a reduced ability to influence international crises.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama sends Congress his eighth and last annual budget proposal on Tuesday, a lame-duck executive's accounting of national priorities that Republican leaders have branded sight unseen: dead before arrival.
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In the short term, a distracted UK, led by a lame duck leader following Cameron's decision to step down, might not have the same capacity or inclination to take on global challenges.
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The provisions on TPP are almost certainly moot, as congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle say the deal will not come up for ratification in the lame duck congressional session.
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This would mean that from May until the end of President Park's term in February 2018 South Korea would be ruled not so much by a lame duck as a dead one.
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Be smart: Regardless of the outcome of the House and Senate, it will be all about Trump's wall in the lame duck, Trump's impeachment after that, and Trump's reelection campaign in 2020.
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For good measure, outgoing governor Scott Walker, who aggressively wooed Foxconn and repeatedly touted the project in his failed reelection bid, signed lame duck legislation limiting his successor's ability to oversee it.
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He has argued for months -- and pushed again in a national TV interview Sunday -- that if Clinton wins the White House, Garland should be confirmed in the post-election lame duck session.
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White House officials this week made clear that they will now not try to push TPP through the lame-duck session of Congress before the inauguration of president-elect Trump in January.
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In a lame-duck session of the legislature, as hundreds of poster-wielding protesters chanted "shame, shame", Republicans put forward a range of measures to limit the new governor's freedom of action.
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It may be a moot point if the Senate surprises us and acts on President Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court during the post-election lame duck session.
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Russian officials have portrayed the U.S. sanctions as a last act of a lame-duck president and suggested that Trump could reverse them when he takes over the White House in January.
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But analysts said the possibility of an increasingly isolated, lame-duck president clinging to power could bring hundreds of thousands of angry Brazilians onto the streets, as was the case last year.
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He drives a bus for a living, he writes saccharine, lame-duck poetry, and he has a country-music-loving wife who paints everything in their house in monochrome, including their cupcakes.
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Obama and his aides are desperate to avoid "lame duck" status, and even agreed to an earlier State of the Union this year to avoid too much overlap with the primary season.
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The first response of Senate Republicans was to warn Mr Obama against even nominating a replacement, chiding him as a "lame-duck" president with no right to make such an enduring decision.
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That being said, in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson was a "lame duck" and unsuccessfully nominated Abe Fortas to serve as chief justice and Homer Thornberry to fill Fortas' seat on the court.
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"The House passed the JOBS Act 3.0 with a huge bipartisan margin, and there's no reason the Senate shouldn't pass this job-creating bill in the lame duck session," she told Reuters.
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A caucus meeting that was supposed to focus on the lame-duck agenda quickly turned into a pep rally as members cheered, clapped and gave standing ovations while Pelosi addressed the room.
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Groups backed by wealthy GOP donor Charles Koch are urging Congress not to renew expired tax breaks, as lawmakers may consider reviving some or all of them during the lame-duck session.
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Trump's success in rallying Republican voters will likely strengthen his hand in the Senate GOP conference in the post-election, lame-duck session and the new 116th Congress, which convenes in January.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) does not want to spend the final days of the lame-duck session voting on a measure that effectively censures the president, but outgoing Sen.
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"If I'm a House member, I want to know what that lame-duck [session after the election] is going to look like before I give you my vote," one conservative lobbyist said.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told the president last week that he did not believe there would be enough floor time to pass the measure in the lame-duck session.
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McConnell's only real option, then, is to concede that the McConnell Rule is law and then argue, as he did on June 28, that it applies only to "constitutionally lame-duck" presidents.
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Some Republicans would prefer to fund the government into next year to avoid a postelection, lame-duck session, while Democrats, anticipating a good election cycle, want to extend spending only into December.
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It is possible that the package could get a Senate vote in the lame-duck session after the elections, though introducing a final bill, as opposed to this draft, would come first.
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In Michigan and Wisconsin, Republicans who control the state legislatures are trying to use year-end "lame duck" sessions to rein in the governors' power now that Democrats have won those seats.
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With GOP leaders hoping to recess for the elections by the end of the week, it's likely the negotiations to marry the two bills would be pushed to the lame-duck session.
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"LAME DUCK WATCH," read a T-shirt worn at the Capitol building by Sam Inglot, the deputy communications director from Progress Michigan, which is working to organize progressive groups to pressure lawmakers.
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Of all the times Donald Trump was done, it is his current status as a supposedly lame duck first-term president that reminds me most of his final months on the trail.
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For all of Mr. Zuma's skills as a strategist, he was a lame-duck leader battling the future as embodied in Mr. Ramaphosa and the new leader's power over appointments and patronage.
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But though Senate Republicans denied they'd confirm him in the lame-duck session, had Hillary Clinton won they might have been tempted to confirm him lest she name a more liberal nominee.
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After losing the governorship in North Carolina in 2016 and Wisconsin in 2018, Republicans used lame-duck legislative sessions to push through a flurry of bills stripping power from incoming Democratic governors.
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Other conservatives still smarting over Ryan's handling of recent spending deals and want to see if he relies on Democrats once again to pass an omnibus bill during the lame-duck session.
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One of the biggest and most consequential bills on the congressional agenda for the lame duck will be final consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill.
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" Emanuel said he won't be a lame duck, saying he and his team "have more to do, and from now until then, we'll do everything in our power to get it done.
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The case challenged the authority of the legislature to convene an "extraordinary session" to pass the legislation in the lame duck period, but GOP Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Sen.
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David Bozell, president of ForAmerica, which is working with Cruz to head off the possibility of a lame-duck session of Congress, said, "it's a 50-50 call" whether Cruz endorses Trump.
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He is turning Sessions into a lame duck -- an even lamer duck than Sessions already was, given the fact that Trump has spent most of the last year savaging his AG publicly.
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Their obstruction — "ironically, in the middle of a presidential election year," Mr. McConnell noted this week — centered on Mr. Johnson's lame-duck status and ethical questions surrounding Justice Fortas, among other issues.
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Conveniently, this falls during the lame duck session of Congress, where a bunch of members who have just lost their seats in the November midterm elections still get to vote on legislation.
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" The committee agreed to remove the specific reference to the TPP, instead inserting language to say the party opposes any attempts by a lame-duck Congress to push through "significant trade agreements.
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We're advising that a lame-duck president in an election year is not going to be able to tip the balance of the Supreme Court, that we're going to have an election.
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In widely criticized lame-duck sessions of the Wisconsin and Michigan Legislatures, Republicans raced to strip powers from new Democratic governors, partly to protect their ability to gerrymander after the 20163 census.
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"We need the money to build the wall, the whole wall, not pieces of it," Trump told reporters, days before Congress reconvenes for its mid-November to mid-December "lame duck" session.
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The legal timetable on the U.S. side means that congressional action on a revised agreement more likely would take place in 85033 rather than in the lame-duck congressional session this year.
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"It is now abundantly clear that the lame-duck session was nothing more than an illegal power grab intended to override the will of the people," Evers said after the ruling on Tuesday.
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Obama's cabinet secretaries and the U.S. Trade Representative's office had been lobbying lawmakers for months to pass the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership deal in the post-election, lame-duck session of Congress.
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But you'd have to go back more than a year since Senate Republicans broke with Trump (the Russia sanctions), so don't hold your breath for the lame duck to do more than quack.
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Pharma has been pushing lawmakers to reverse the policy basically since its passage, most recently as part of an opioids bill, and now in the lame-duck — which may be its last chance.
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He was holding out hope that the lame duck session of Congress after the November presidential elections, but before the new government takes power, would result in a vote to ratify the treaty.
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Wisconsin's lame-duck Republican-majority legislature called a rare post-election session this week to consider the proposals before Governor-elect Tony Evers takes office in January and can exercise his veto power.
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Doing so would cement a significant break for Clinton with President Obama, and labor officials believe it would kill any chance of moving the pact in a lame-duck Congress after the election.
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It's imperative for Congress to take up TPP in the lame-duck, give it a fair public hearing, and allow a vote based on a full understanding of the benefits of the deal.
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Criminal justice reform Lawmakers are expected to make a renewed effort to pass a criminal justice reform bill by the end of the year after punting the issue into the lame-duck session.
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Trump is not quite a lame duck president yet, but thanks to the Democrats' winning control of the House of Representatives, his chances of advancing a legislative agenda have dropped to essentially nil.
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Also during the lame-duck session, Congress will have to agree to a stopgap measure to fund roughly a quarter of the government's operations before the current continuing resolution expires on Dec. 7.
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Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said he's worried that a lame-duck spending bill would provide too much opportunity for GOP leaders to slip in controversial policy riders.
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Democrats will control the House in January and there is virtually no chance that lawmakers will approve implementing legislation for the NAFTA replacement in the lame-duck Congress over the next two weeks.
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There will be no impeachment in this new lame duck Congress, and Democrats have indicated they will hold off on seeking impeachment at first, as opposed to investigating possible financial and corruption charges.
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The decision means Ryan will occupy lame-duck status for almost nine months — a lengthy span to a fill the power vacuum he's created while maintaining control of an already divisive GOP conference.
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Some analysts have said that Ms. Park may try to highlight the threats from North Korea after the elections, using them as leverage in domestic politics to avoid becoming an early lame duck.
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Now, they are back, pressuring Democratic candidates and Members to go on record against TPP—a key priority for President Obama—and any vote on TPP in the lame duck session of Congress.
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If the Republicans lose the presidential election, he said, that might mean confirming Judge Garland in the lame-duck session before the Democratic victor could make a new — and potentially more liberal — nomination.
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Incoming Attorney General-elect Nessel released a press release Wednesday stating her opposition to two pieces of lame duck legislation that would affect the way the government regulates water and public health standards.
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Most of the CHC members are Clinton supporters, and they seem eager to shift the attention away from the immigration policies of the lame-duck Obama administration to focus instead on Clinton's platform.
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"I know there have been some members of the press who asked about well, if not now, how about in a lame-duck session of the Congress," he said on the Senate floor.
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The senator recently said he is working with the Obama administration to resolve the issue of data protections, which he thinks would pave the way for a lame-duck vote on the TPP.
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This made Tartuferi a lame-duck director, and the Italian government was not going to allow him, on his way out the door, to execute a project as important as saving the David.
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"Now her government has received a vote of no confidence, the lame duck period has started earlier than any other administration in the past," the conservative Chosun Ilbo newspaper said in an editorial.
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After the 1844 election brought a victory for the aggressively expansionist Democrat James K. Polk, lame duck Tyler caught the wave and signed a joint resolution offering annexation to the republic of Texas.
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But the lame-duck push leaves Clinton in a tough spot, as her left flank urges her to oppose it loudly and often, even as Obama, her ally, tries to push it through.
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In the lame-duck session, lawmakers must pass a budget that sets the stage for true tax reform—and corporate welfare for green energy companies or anyone only takes us farther that goal.
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"Let's at least be honest while we are talking about this stuff," Mr. Franken told Mr. Hatch, who had raised the idea of taking up Judge Garland's nomination during the lame duck session.
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Now, one month later, GOP lawmakers in multiple states are using lame-duck sessions to hamstring incoming Democratic elected officials, either by reducing their official powers or transferring them to Republican-led legislatures.
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Mr. Obama will most likely find himself educating Asian leaders in the fine points of the lame-duck session, which now looms as the last chance during his presidency for a Congressional vote.
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Though the bill's title signals the effort to target rules finalized in the lame-duck period, Democratic opponents claim the legislation will allow Congress to repeal rules finalized as far back as May.
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Frustration with their current lame duck president and the fundamental flaws in her main rivals, appear to have opened the door for Keiko, who is around 20 points clear of her nearest competitors.
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Not only did Speaker Paul Ryan fail to mobilize lawmakers for a vote on Mr. Trump's $5 billion, but many lame-duck members couldn't be bothered to show up for work at all.
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In Michigan, voters this year approved an independent redistricting commission, but Republican lawmakers are using the current lame duck session to try to curb the new Democratic secretary of state's implementation of it.
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House Speaker Robin Vos is already talking about trying to claw back power from the executive branch in the lame duck session, to limit Evers's ability to implement his agenda on his own.
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The measure was completed in a lame-duck session of Congress in the final weeks of the Carter administration, after Ronald Reagan had won the 21986 election, denying the president a second term.
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A pro-trade House Democrat said Monday that there are more than 28 votes within his party for an Asia-Pacific trade agreement that may come up during the lame-duck session. Rep.
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This option of a new (and powerful) trading block perhaps most benefits the UK, which has a lame duck prime minister and lacks a credible plan for dealing with leaving the European Union.
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"Obama's insistence on a lame-duck vote for the trade deal is creating political complications for Democrats among blue-collar swing voters," said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
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Now, Mr. Christie has returned to New Jersey a lame duck in his last year to discover voters angry over his absences and a Legislature suddenly unwilling to go along with his agenda.
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But those electors cast an equal number of votes for Jefferson and Burr, forcing the election into the House of Representatives, where a lame-duck Federalist majority saw its chance to stymie Jefferson.
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Now, as Republicans bid farewell to their control on the house, the lame duck session appears to be one of the last opportunities to potentially get something done before Congressional dynamics shift again.
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As similar stories of lame-duck power grabs have played out in states like Michigan and North Carolina, this latest development in Wisconsin should serve as a warning sign for Democrats throughout the country.
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At Unilever, lame-duck CEO Paul Polman wanted to cement his legacy by finally getting rid of the company's anachronistic and confusing structure of having dual listings and dual headquarters in London and Rotterdam.
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If Trump had chosen to violate that norm and fire Comey (or ask him to resign) during the lame-duck period, that would have been a controversial move but at least a comprehensible one.
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In the post-election lame duck session, many of the same Republicans Obama is hammering will prove essential in approving the President's last remaining legislative priority: passage of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade pact.
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There was grumbling after Ryan&aposs retirement announcement in April that the GOP couldn&apost go eight months with a lame-duck speaker and with Democrats a credible threat to take over the House.
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A circuit judge in Wisconsin issued an injunction on Thursday to temporarily block the lame-duck laws that the GOP-controlled state legislature passed in December to limit the powers of incoming Democrats Gov.
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While plenty of pearl-clutching liberals hoped that the lame duck president would change history by intervening more aggressively, level-headed Barry simply responded to questions about Russia's election hack with a dull shrug.
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While there, the President will again press for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, whose future rests in the hands of lawmakers returning to Washington for a lame-duck session of Congress.
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Kasich also defended the prospect of Obama pushing the TPP toward passage in a "lame duck" session of Congress, after the November 8 election but before a new president and Congress are sworn in.
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Politicians are working overtime to pass it before the new year—it's the number one priority for the lame duck session, passing the House on November 30 and advancing through the Senate last night.
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The final text shows Republicans in the lame duck Congress had to walk back from some demands, the biggest being the Trump-backed proposal to impose stricter worker requirements for recipients of food stamps.
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The next president is at risk of being a "lame duck" at the start of his or her administration unless significant reforms to spending and tax policies are made, a paper released Thursday argues.
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And this year, as was the case in 2008 and 2012 — the last two presidential election years — it is likely that Congress won't take up an omnibus spending package during the lame-duck session.
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The Obama administration has said that the TPP agreement would need to have enough support before it would send an implementing bill up to Capitol Hill for a vote in the lame-duck session.
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McConnell has called the legislation one of his top two priorities in the lame-duck session, but the proposal has stalled over funding for the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration.
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The reality: Ryan is a lame duck, but he is not in danger of being pushed out, according to several senior aides and lawmakers enmeshed in the current dynamics -- at least at the moment.
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The business community has been urging Congress to pass legislation in the lame-duck session to fix drafting errors, including one that retailers and restaurants argue is hurting their ability to renovate their facilities.
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The CWA endorsement expressed support for the presumptive Democratic nominee's opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and her push against a possible vote on it during a lame-duck session after the November elections.
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This is not least because top campaign surrogates like Bill Clinton and Obama continue to praise the deal, with the president staking his legacy on a vote in the lame duck session of Congress.
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Opponents of a lame-duck session note that the practice of conducting final "must-do" business after the elections has only become a regular occurrence in the last two decades of modern political history.
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A second Wisconsin judge Tuesday blocked parts of a law to curtail Democratic authority that was passed during last year's lame-duck session by the state's GOP-controlled legislature, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
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Neither Mr. Cornyn nor Mr. Durbin sees criminal justice legislation as the type of issue that could be sorted out in a chaotic postelection, lame-duck session, with other issues clamoring for immediate attention.
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Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said that he was hopeful that Republicans would continue to block Judge Garland's confirmation before the election and in the lame-duck period.
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During Wisconsin's lame duck session, Republican lawmakers pulled a similar stunt, passing a number of bills transparently designed to rein in the authority of the incoming Democratic governor just weeks before he took office.
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Cornyn will retain his position through the lame-duck session and then take a role as a counselor to McConnell's leadership team next year, allowing him to remain a participant in leadership strategy sessions.
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"Passing both anti-abortion measures in a lame-duck session is political maneuvering by the Republican-dominated state legislature steered by Governor Kasich," said Gabriel Mann, a spokesman for the NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio.
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With all the rhetoric on borders and trade during the campaign season, there is actually something that Congress can and should do in the lame-duck session to bolster border security and economic growth.
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The lame-duck Obama administration is relinquishing its eight-year hold on the levers of power, while the Trump transition looks at fresh opportunities to fill departments, agencies and commissions with its own myrmidons.
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Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a senior appropriator, said the GOP's current predicament proves he was right when he urged his party during last year's lame-duck session to pass a funding bill through September.
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"It would be really appalling to see Congress blatantly ignore the broad bipartisan opposition that exists ... by forcing it through a lame-duck session," said Neil Sroka, spokesman for the liberal Democracy for America.
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If trade is indeed "crucial," Republicans should instead demand Congress come back into session and pass this agreement now — especially because it is so significant — and wouldn't tolerate a delay until the lame-duck.
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Thus there's much private focus on a lame-duck session, which is common after the rival party wins the presidential election; it occurred in 1980, 2000 and 2008, and there were some substantive achievements.
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Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus want to pass a funding stopgap that lasts until next year because they want to avoid voting on a massive omnibus spending deal in the lame duck.
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Even if Mr. Xi does not seek to stay in office beyond 10 years, he may decide that anointing an heir too soon could dilute his own power, turning him into a lame duck.
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The legislation and related bills came as a surprise, filed late on Wednesday on the heels of a special "lame duck" session of the General Assembly called to consider relief for Hurricane Matthew victims.
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"Even though we may have come out less scarred than we had thought we might," Mr. Zemke said, "if we didn't have a lame duck, none of these bills would ever have been introduced."
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A day after Paul Ryan, the lame-duck House Speaker, gently questioned the constitutionality of Mr. Trump's proposed executive order banning birthright citizenship, the president did what he often does when he feels challenged.
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In the Democrats' dream world, they defeat Judge Kavanaugh, win the majority, block the Republicans from getting a nominee through in the lame-duck session and then keep the seat open for two years.
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This is a win for China as it will be much easier to negotiate with a lame duck president … In the short term, this will move the focus off the USA China trade dispute.
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"The overwhelming view of the Republican Conference in the Senate is this vacancy should not be filled by this lame-duck president," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told reporters his group is "very concerned" about the lame-duck approach, arguing the CR could be loaded up with Democratic goodies and lead to higher spending.
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But the formula seems likely to reemerge during the post-election lame-duck session, when Ryan and GOP leaders are vowing a series of "minibus" spending bills to extend 2900 funding through next September.
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The South Dakota Republican, who holds a position in party leadership, has previously said he expects the issue to come to a head in the lame duck session after the presidential election in November.
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Trying to confirm Kavanaugh (or some other nominee if Trump pulls Kavanaugh or Kavanaugh drops out) in a lame-duck session of Congress after major Democratic gains at the ballot box would be dicey.
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Hank Johnson, who attended the meeting, told CNN he didn't think it was "very productive" for the caucus to impose a term limit rule for its leaders, saying it would create lame-duck scenarios.
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Progressives are looking to make Clinton speak out enthusiastically against TPP if Obama doesn't get a vote on it in the lame-duck session, as well as holding to and expanding Obama's lobbyist ban.
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After a meeting on Monday between congressional leaders and President Obama, Ryan's office provided a readout that emphasized his objections to the though of a catchall spending bill in the December lame-duck session.
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Trump himself has repeatedly signaled his support for the bill, but has only really dialed up his calls for Senate movement in recent days, as Congress's lame-duck session rapidly comes to a close.
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Instead, the most controversial uses of the pardon power have generally come from presidents pardoning crimes committed by their political allies under their predecessors' administrations, or from lame-duck presidents already headed out the door.
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"It is very hard to see how the conference can continue this way, with a president who is even worse than a lame duck," said Massimo Faggioli, a church historian at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
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Ryan's "record of achievement was atrocious (except during my first two years as President), ultimately became a long running lame duck failure, leaving his Party in the lurch both as a fundraiser & leader," Trump tweeted.
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As a reward, Gary has put her back in charge of Everlasting — and that means that Coleman has to live out his remaining contract as a lame duck, totally stripped of his show-runner responsibilities.
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On the first day of their post-election lame-duck session, House Republicans decided to block a vote on whether the US should support Saudi Arabia in its war on Yemen, three congressional sources say.
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He also noted the distrust between Seoul and Tokyo, and the fact that South Korea's Moon Jae-in — who has bet big on a breakthrough with Kim — will effectively become a lame duck next year.
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One of the first ones came Thursday from the official Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in the UK, making fun of "lame duck" Obama: President Obama expels 35 diplomats in Cold War deja vu.
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That said, the last quarterback I thought came into a season with such inarguable lame-duck status was Jay Cutler, and Miami's new head coach, Adam Gase, got the most out of Cutler last year.
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This month, as the lame-duck session came to a close, proponents tried to tack it onto the much larger 21st Century Cures Act, and then the continuing resolution bill to temporarily fund the government.
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Pelosi said during a press conference on Wednesday that she would "build consensus" on a new version of the medical cures bill, which is expected to come up in a lame-duck session of Congress.
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Holly Harris, executive director of the criminal justice reform group U.S. Justice Action Network, told The New Republic she's still optimistic about this year's lame-duck session, even if reform passes in a piecemeal fashion.
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With the deal now on shaky ground after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out, the 20033-year-old mild-mannered cleric faces the prospect of serving out his second term as a lame duck leader.
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Despite these concerns, it is an open secret that an overwhelming number of Republicans and a few of their Democratic counterparts are quietly seeking to push TPP through during the lame duck session of Congress.
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When lawmakers return from their five-week election hiatus they will decide on passing a short-term or long-term spending bill and whether or not to have a lengthy lame-duck session of Congress.
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Washington (CNN)Senators released the text of a compromise bill that would overhaul parts of the federal criminal justice system on Thursday, setting the stage for an attempt at passage in the lame duck session.
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The lame-duck period marks Brady's final weeks as chairman of the tax-writing committee, since Democrats will have control of the House next year after regained control of the House in the midterm elections.
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Conservative lawmakers and advocacy groups are fighting to prevent a lame-duck session after the November elections, arguing that members of Congress who have been booted from office shouldn't be responsible for major policy decisions.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose lame duck speakership has been tested by the impasse, would not comment on the ongoing negotiations during a news conference Thursday morning, saying only that conversations were constructive and continuing.
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GOP divide over criminal justice reform Meanwhile on the other side of Capitol Hill, a bipartisan group of senators want to use the lame duck session to finish work on a criminal justice reform bill.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that Democrats would also try to attach legislation protecting the special counsel to the must-pass spending bill that Congress needs to pass during the lame-duck session.
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Supporters of the measure expect that Trump's explicit backing will help propel the prison and sentencing overhaul bill through Congress, a push White House officials hope to accomplish during the lame duck session of Congress.
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Congress could pass a final version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, but it is more likely to go into the lame duck session, as has been the case for a few years now.
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In remarks last month, Republican Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley indicated he could be persuaded by a large number of senators to take action on Garland in a "lame duck" session immediately after the election.
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With few bargaining chips left on the table, a lame-duck Speaker and Democrats set to retake the majority in January, House Republicans are acknowledging their colleagues across the aisle may have the upper hand.
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The Tennessee senator added that Trump may be putting on appearances of a re-election bid so as to avoid being viewed as a lame duck president, but offered no evidence to support his claim.
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And Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah and a member of the Judiciary Committee, said he would be open to holding hearings on Judge Garland during a lame-duck congressional session after the election.
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It's likely that Congress will agree to a spending bill that runs into December, which would force lawmakers to approve either an omnibus spending bill or another short-term measure in a lame-duck session.
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Until Trump and lawmakers agree on a new deal, this partial shutdown could continue to drag on as the Christmas holiday rapidly approaches, sending this lame-duck Congress out on anything but a high note.
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Current and former White House advisers noted that Obama avoided any slide into "lame duck" status in 2015 with big policy moves including the Iran nuclear deal and an international agreement to fight climate change.
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Michigan legislators are debating whether to require voters to show identification at the polls, part of a three-bill package of election reforms the Republican-led body will take up in a lame-duck session.
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Johnson & Johnson, which has chosen to ignore these facts, is now stepping on the gas of its lobbying efforts to get the CLCHPA passed before the end of the current Lame Duck session of Congress.
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President Obama proposed a budget with a moonshot for cancer research — something that every American cares about, but the Republicans are not even prepared to seriously look at his budget because he's a lame duck.
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Approving the budget resolution in the lame-duck session would clear the path for a legislative tactic known as reconciliation, which allows Congress to approve certain spending-related bills without the threat of a filibuster.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he didn't see a path for Congress to vote on the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the lame duck session after the November elections.
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It's unclear what tax proposal Trump was referring to on Saturday, with deep partisan divisions in Congress making it unlikely for a new tax plan to advance following the midterms during the lame duck sessions.
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Then there was this line: In just six short months, I will be officially a lame duck, which means Congress now will flat out reject my authority, and Republican leaders won't take my phone calls.
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If they fare poorly in November, they will then rush Mr. Obama's choice through in a lame-duck session rather than allow a Democratic president — whoever he or she is — to name a more objectionable choice.
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"A hallmark of lame duck is a flood of bills, including bills inside of bills," Kasich press secretary Emmalee Kalmbach told CNN, referring to a larger child abuse bill within which the "Heartbeat Bill" is contained.
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Wisconsin and Michigan Republicans, who lost statewide races but control their state legislatures, are using lame duck sessions to strip incoming Democratic governors and attorneys general of their power and tighten their control on redistricting committees.
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Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul were handed a huge, albeit temporary, win in the court this week, when a judge blocked Republicans' lame-duck power grab aimed at limiting Democrats' newfound power in the state.
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"I wouldn't be surprised if he made a political, or perhaps, even a military or quasi-military move because here you have the EU government in shambles and a lame-duck president in the United States."
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Republicans close to leadership believe criminal justice reform could pass the Senate during the lame duck, but this is far from certain and hard-liners like Cotton will be difficult if not impossible to win over.
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Last week, Sanders unsuccessfully pushed the Democratic Party's platform committee to go on record opposing a vote on the TPP trade deal during the post-election, lame duck session of Congress or at any point thereafter.
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Park is in the fourth year of a five-year term, and the crisis threatens to complicate policymaking during the lame-duck period that typically sets in toward the end of South Korea's single-term presidency.
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One was that the Bush tax cuts, originally scheduled to expire in 2010, had been extended by two years during a lame duck congressional session and were now set to expire at the end of 2012.
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"Well, my answer to you would be it isn't going to happen -- period," Burr said when asked about the prospects of President Barack Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, being confirmed in the lame-duck session of Congress.
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Tone of final months In the coming weeks, administration officials are expected to work on cementing what elements of Obama's unfinished agenda they can, either through new executive orders or action in the lame duck Congress.
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The final agreement on the bill came after Republicans in the lame duck Congress walked back some of their demands, including a proposal to tighten criteria for receiving food stamps that had been championed by Trump.
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