Sentences with phrase «from lame duck»

More Bad News from a Lame Duck President: Bush Wants to Steal Money from Salmon Fisherman for 2010 Census: Red, Green, and Blue

on Draft synthesis report on US climate impacts from lame duck Bush administration raises questions

Once the summer finally arrives and saves us from this lame duck of a season, the club need to take a hard look at the squad and really trim the fat.

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Given Cameron's role as a relentless champion for «remain,» even a close vote could force him from power or turn him into a lame duck.

But hardly a surprising action coming from a lame - duck Republican who has built a career out of cozy relationships with the one - percenters.

For the 27 years of my priestly life, I have been using a lame - duck text that dumbs down the theology of the Mass and prevents me from giving to God the reverence due to Him in the words of the prayers prescribed by the Church.

This lame duck period was necessarily long in order to both ensure time for a transition, and to allow for travel from far flung states to Washington, DC.

We don't know if Paterson can get the legislature back, or if the lame duck senate can pass anything, or if the Payroll Mobility Tax would be exempt from this round of back - door dedicated fund diversions.

Instead the strongest opinions we heard on the issue this weekend came from man on the street interviews, the occasional Congressman, lame duck Mike Bloomberg and d - list Hollywood types like Alec, no Billy, no Danny, er Stephen Baldwin.

And while Mark - Viverito, whose term ends Sunday, teamed up with an incoming mayor whose influence was on the rise, Johnson, 35, will work across from a «lame duck» with diminished popularity.

Delaying any announcement would give Cuomo maximum leverage over his successor, and it keeps him from becoming a lame duck for as long as possible.

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.

The lame duck spending detailed by the TU's Jim Odato amounts to $ 16.7 million, which is quite a bit less than the $ 250 million worth of workforce savings the Paterson administration has been trying to wring from the public employee unions.

Once a deal is reached, Paterson will become a 100 percent certified lame duck with very little power and even less ability to command attention from his bully pulpit.

Congress's flurry of activity during the lame - duck session helped save President Obama from facing a primary challenge in 2012, Rep. Charles Rangel said Tuesday.

Valesky abstained from supporting Sen. John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, because newly elected senators weren't part of the lame - duck vote.

The lame - duck Legislature of 1964 met for a special session at the State Capitol in Albany from December 15 to 31, 1964, to re-apportion the legislative districts for the election in November 1965, gerrymandering the districts according to the wishes of the Republican majority before the Democrats would take over the Legislature in January.

Smith — who is also accused of accepting bribes from others — remains a lame duck until the end of the year after losing a re-election bid in September's» primary.

* During the lame duck Congressional session last year, 15 House Republicans and eight Senate Republicans crossed over to support a repeal of «Don't Ask Don't Tell» that banned gays from serving openly in the military.

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.

Also opens another round of «I am not running although God knows I want to but I won't and I'm not» yawns from soon - unemployed Bloomberg, whose witch doctors must now either sit shiva, find a new gravy train or more ways for Lame - duck Mike to quack.

Which makes next week, after Thanksgiving and before Christmas, the perfect time for the lame - duck U.S. Senate to be deciding the fate of a bill that would pay the medical costs for thousands of people suffering from illnesses caused by the September 11 terrorist attacks.

It should have been obvious that the task for the Labour Party was to keep the media focus on the lies and false promises from the leading Brexit campaigners; and it should have been obvious that the task for the Labour Party was to exploit the division in the Conservative Party and the paralysis of the lame - duck Cameron administration.

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

As the lame duck session winds to an end and the holidays rapidly approach, we thought it appropriate to look back on the 2010 election and pick out 10 moments from the past year — moments that defined the election, will have lasting effects, or were just plain interesting.

State officials want Congress to take up the plea during its lame - duck session, but New York will face competition from other states also impacted by the storm, including New Jersey.

To its credit, Kushner's script does not shy away from the dubiously ethical machinations employed by Lincoln's cabinet, including bribing lame duck congressmen with cushy appointments.

The acting is what you'd expect from a bunch of lame ducks, but all you really hope for in movies like this is that no one pulls a Matthew Lillard and overdoes it to the point of distraction.

When the dust settles from the midterm elections, federal lawmakers — the re-elected and losers alike — will head back to Washington for a lame - duck session with a long to - do list that could have broad implications for education policy over the next year.

Some lawmakers are hoping to pass a bill in this lame - duck session of the Legislature that would force new teachers into a 401 (k)- style retirement system, and move the state away from supporting a traditional pension system.

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.

Starting four years from now, when Obama is a lame duck, that overage will shrink.

No conclusions can be drawn from the failure of nationalisation to cure lame ducks.

A new report from Friends of the Earth and Taxpayers for Common Sense sounds the alarm on a lame duck tax deal that could send billions in subsidies to Southern Company's long - troubled Kemper coal plant in De Kalb, Mississippi.

Quite often, presidents in their second term are referred to as Lame Ducks from the get - go.