Sentences with phrase «current lame duck»

Aside from our current lame duck Borough President, where are all the announced candidates that are coming out of the woodwork for the position?

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So it was all about politics — and the president expected as much, even in the current lame - duck Congress.

whoa whoa whoa — what exactly has been so lame - duck about the current admin and congress Ms. O'Donnell?

But even so, it is the polluted political culture which permeates Birmingham city council — like Blackpool stamped through rock — that has rendered it a lame duck, infamous for the left hand not knowing what the right is doing; but none of this is new or limited to this current Labour leadership.

Any pay increase would likely have to be considered in a special session of the current lame - duck Legislature before the end of the year and newly elected lawmakers take their seats.

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.

Nassau's lame - duck Board of Ethics has rebuffed District Attorney Madeline Singas» request for an opinion on the legality of partisan governmental mailings even as the county attorney acknowledged this week that the board's current membership does not conform with Nassau's revised ethics code.

That can has been kicked down the road into the next Congress because legislators couldn't agree on the 2011 budget in their current lame - duck session.

The next Congress may have to decide the issue — if the current one doesn't pull the plug first when it returns to Washington, D.C., for a 6 - week lame - duck session.

But Rockefeller is retiring this year at the end of the current Congress, and his colleagues are extremely unlikely to take up, much less pass, any reauthorization before they adjourn after a lame - duck session in December.

Yet, through August, Porsche sold 2470 Boxsters and Caymans and 4253 911s, even though the current 911 is a lame duck.