Sentences with phrase «called lame duck»

Technically speaking, the governor called this lame duck session to address the $ 315 million (or up to $ 1 billion, depending on whose numbers you believe, the administration's or the state comptroller's) mid-year budget deficit.

Walker and Republican lawmakers have urged Democrats not to call the lame duck session.

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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.

«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.

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 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.

Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, called Mr. Obama's planned trip a «lame duck bus tour,» and predicted that the president would focus on the same old policies that he says haven't worked.

Washington (CNN)- Rep. Maxine Waters, D - California, called on the House ethics committee Monday to either schedule her trial before Congress completes this year's lame duck session or explain why it won't go forward.

Democrats applauded his calls for a legislative agenda focused on «Connecticut fairness» while Republicans chided the lame - duck governor for not addressing the state's fiscal woes in what is traditionally a budget address.

National and state Republican Party leaders are calling President Obama's upcoming New York visit a lame duck bus tour.

Local leaders will call on Nan Hayworth — who was upset in Tuesday's elections by Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney — to fight for a fair deal that protects jobs, protects social services, and ensures the wealthiest 2 % pay their fair share when she returns to Washington for the «Lame Duck» session.

The group, calling itself the Dynamic Youth Movement of Ghana, described the report as a «lame duck».

It's gotten so «silly» that even someone who calls himself a legal writer doesn't know that the vernacular term «Lame Duck» has been in common parlance for years, with respect to presidents and others, long before Obama arrived.