Sentences with phrase «lame duck session»

And now with such an important lame duck session you realize why we were to endure all that stuff.

Obama recently announced his intentions to force a vote on TPP in Congress during its current in lame duck session.

Obama made New START ratification a priority during the 2010 post-election lame duck session of Congress, and Senators John Kerry (D - MA) and Richard Lugar (R - IN), the Democratic Chairman and senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were leading supporters of the treaty.

«It would be a serious mistake for House Republicans to pass a Continuing Resolution that would ensure that Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats would come back to Washington, after many of them will have likely lost their seats, for a no - holds barred lame duck session where they will be free to pass legislation that the American people will never be able to hold them responsible for,» the Texas Republican said in a statement provided to CQ Roll Call.

Congress returns for its post-election lame duck session Tuesday.

Pay raises are usually the stuff of lame duck sessions because sitting lawmakers can only give a raise to their successor crop.

CEF Executive Director Joel Packer recently told ASCD's Legislative Committee that the deep divisions over multiple budget concerns are conspiring to become «the perfect fiscal storm» during next fall's congressional lame duck session, when Congress will have to decide whether to extend the Bush - era tax cuts, end sequestration, and raise the debt ceiling, all at the same time.

According to the speakers, none of the president's large scale reforms are going to be touched in the upcoming lame duck session of Congress.

The story, accompanied by a photo of the junior senator, focuses on her unlikely and rapid rise from a relatively obscure upstate congresswoman to an influential senator who played a big role in two major lame duck session victories this week: The repeal of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» and passage of the 9/11 health care bill.

Paterson, who vetoed an ethics bill last February, arguing the measure didn't go far enough, said in the wake of last week's largely unproductive lame duck session that he would not be calling lawmakers back to the Capitol unless he saw a «change of heart» on the topic of mid-year budget cuts to close the $ 315 million gap.

The Senate Democats are not going to be taking up the $ 315 million worth of mid-year budget cuts that were the main focus of Gov. David Paterson's lame duck session today, and they're blaming the outgoing governor for this loss.

The former Westchester County congressman said the no - so lame duck session in 2010 was «good» for Gillibrand because it produced results, thanks to the president's pragmatic approach, adding:

New York's Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman pulled an all - nighter, but is nevertheless in a very good mood this morning after shepherding through the judicial compensation commission bill through both houses of the Legislature and creating a rare moment of accomplishment in this largely do - nothing lame duck session.

This is a marked drop from just two months ago when Congress enjoyed an upswing in poll numbers following a frenetic lame duck session.

Some hopeful Capitol Hill insiders predict Congress will, with the November election behind them, pass the PTC in a December lame duck session.

Cook - Deegan pointed to one «bright spot» for biomedical research amid all this uncertainty: in last year's lame duck session of Congress, the 21st Century Cures Act passed with bipartisan support.

2) National: Activists urge lawmakers to use the Congressional lame duck session to protect the U.S. Postal Service from privatization before the Republican majority takes over the Senate next year.

The coalition released a letter today ahead of the upcoming lame duck session, urging Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority Leader McConnell to reject any attempt to revive the wind PTC, specifically -LSB-...]

While President Barack Obama held out hope that the TPP could be salvaged during the «lame duck session» of Congress that occurs immediately after the election, his administration was quickly forced to concede that the deal has become politically toxic and stands no chance of passage.

The supposedly conservative Fox News «all - stars» all applauded the movement to repeal DADT, and a number of Republican senators gave Obama the key votes he needed to do just that in a lame duck session.

The Beer Institute is hoping a so - called «lame duck session» of Congress won't hurt the chances of finally passing the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA), which would lower excise taxes, compliance burdens, and regulations on alcohol makers.

The House legislation could be taken up in the lame duck session after the mid-term elections, but even that isn't certain.

There have been reports that the Obama administration is committed to getting the child nutrition bill passed in the lame duck session and is working with Congress to restore the SNAP offsets down the road.

As the Democrats appear to be slowly losing their grip on the majority (despite their claims to the contrary), Conference Leader John Sampson is reaching across the aisle to his GOP counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, and proposing a post-election spirit of cooperation for the Nov. 29 lame duck session.

DADT actually didn't have the votes early in the lame duck session.

«People on the Hill kept saying, «The White House doesn't have a strategy» right up through the lame duck session,» Sudbay says.

I recall Barack Obama planning other legislation for that lame duck session, until GETEqual, Dan Choi, and Autumn Sandeen chained themselves to the White House fence.

Now in this game, the Republicans have every incentive to wait until the Lame Duck session (after the election) to approve a nominee.

New York's working families have been mobilizing around the Lame Duck session and will continue calling on Congress to end tax cuts for the richest 2 % and to say no to cuts to benefits for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

The lame duck session is supposed to start... now... and it still remains unclear what, exactly, will be taken up by either house and whether they will stick around until tomorrow to continue trying to wrangle some last - minute deals, or simply gavel in, gavel out and go home to wait for Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo.

The biggest obstacle standing between Paterson and his lame duck session agenda is the Senate, where the balance of power remains undetermined as three races have yet to be decided.

The woman who could unseat the Senate's top Democrat vowed that conservatives will demand that Congress use its lame duck session to repeal health care reform - which she called «Obamacare» - and permanently extend the Bush tax cuts.

Congressman Brian Higgins is pushing for Lawmakers return to Capital Hill for a lame duck session Tuesday and House Speaker John Boehner has indicated he would prefer a quick fix so Congress can enact an all - encompassing solution next year.

The Dem's last best opportunity to «do - something» will be the lame duck session.

The governor then reversed himself on that, saying the Senate recounts, which could continue into 2011, shouldn't impact a lame duck session because the current members of the Senate are all in office through the end of the year, although what would motivate those who are leaving to show up in Albany just days after Thanksgiving is a little hard to figure out.

The governor was in a jokey sort of mood — a far cry from his angry rhetoric in Buffalo yesterday when he went after state worker unions and legislators who might be contemplating playing hooky for the Nov. 29 lame duck session.

One thing we do know — at least as far as we can know anything where Paterson is concerned — is that the property tax cap probably won't be on the lame duck session agenda.

Although there may be a specific bill you are working to pass, most of the advocacy work that happens during a lame duck session will center around long - term, ongoing fights that aren't bound by the legislative season.

Gov. David Paterson teed off on two of his favorite targets — public employee unions and state lawmakers — earlier today, pushing back against CSEA's claim that he violated his own hiring freeze at the DEC and also taking legislators who might be thinking of skipping the lame duck session to task.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ruled out confirming U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in a lame duck session after the November presidential elections if Democrat Hillary Clinton is elected.

-- Tony Avella, of Queens, apparently was informed there would be a vote, but was otherwise engaged and couldn't make it to the Capitol for the lame duck session.

There has been speculation that the legislature would raise the minimum wage in a lame duck session after the November elections as part of a deal to raise state legislators and Commissioners salaries (an issue of concern to Cuomo).

And, there's already been some evidence of that sort of triangulation during the lame duck session of Congress late last year.

It will be interesting to see who actually shows up for the lame duck session considering there are a number of lawmakers who lost their seat on primary day and more are likely to be ousted one week from today.

The lame duck session brought two big victories for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: The 9/11 health care «Zadroga» bill and the repeal of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell.»