Sentences with phrase «in lame duck»

If such a delay carries through until late 2014, perhaps in a lame duck session after the election, then it is possible that a future extension may not be retroactive for 2014.

Pai said the companies were approved in a lame duck session and were a «midnight regulation» that «did not enjoy the support of the majority of commissioners.»

Obviously we had great difficulty in getting any sort of legislation though in the lame duck session of the last Congress; we were not able to enact these consensus provisions.

The Act was introduced in the last Congress and the Senate passed it unanimously in the lame duck session, but the House did not.

(And also in the lame duck case, the voters will be ignored completely in favor of the power brokers.)

And in January, just after we hadn't gotten our proposal through in the lame duck session, I'd worked with a labor lawyer named Jim Franczek who's absolutely brilliant... and his partner of counsel Stephanie Donovan on fall backs.

And finally, after the success of the Obama administration in the lame duck session, will there be a willingness to hand over yet another victory to the president in education.

«In a Lame Duck Session after the election, will the conservative republicans try to force through every cockeyed piece of legislation they were too disorganized / distracted to push through during the past 6 years?»

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.

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).

AmericaBlog's Gaius Publius On How Barack Obama Still Wants To Cut Social Security In The Lame Duck

http://matthewf.net AmericaBlog's Gaius Publius discusses the warning by Bernie Sanders that Barack Obama still wants to cut Social Security in the Lame Duck session.

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

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First, the debt ceiling will expire around election time, so the government will face another shutdown and it will be politically brutal to assemble a majority in a lame duck session to raise it by the trillions that will be needed.

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.

Not exact matches

House Republicans lost five seats, making passage in January a more difficult proposition than pushing through legislation in the lame - duck session.

And in the lame - duck Congressional session that will follow the election, the best anyone can hope for is a short - term deal that punts the issue into the new year.

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

During the decades in which we have been lumbered with the lame - duck translation, much has changed in the Church: some of the changes have ironically been a matter of people continuing to do the same thing.

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

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.

Holgorsen, 45, was considered a lame duck entering 2016, with a 36 - 28 record over his five seasons in the Big 12, but after a 6 - 1 start, he's back in favor.

Irsay is crazy, Grigson doesn't get along with his head coach and put him in lame - duck status this year, and Luck is really struggling out there, injuries or not.

no one can be that delusional without having Wenger blood run through their veins... this team has already conceded 2 of 3 in August and you believe we can get 45 of a potentially 52 available points before Xmas... no wonder this club can't seem to take it's fan - base seriously, albeit I'm sure your assessment would give the Grinch who stole soccer a quarter chub... anyways, enough talk about the criminally insane with internet access... we have much bigger fish to fry... like what were the real objectives behind the choices made by our lame duck manager on the weekend

Another big problem with Wenger is his blind faith in the same lame ducks, refusing to buy a proper striker because he has Giroud, and that languid French boy by the name of Yaya Sanogo and Theo Walcott.

I we didn't have a lame duck dead man walking in SVG then we actually could have had a lot of high draft picks.

It's the fans that keep sacrificing because this team can't get their head out of their own ass... please give me some examples when a top club ever let their best player leave for free at the end of a season... Wenger needs to go to PSG and get some money and talent for Sanchez so that we can end this nonsense once and for all... then he needs to publicly apologize for the way in which they handled the whole situation... if they allow Sanchez to go for free there is no way this club, under the tutelage of Kroenke and Wenger, will ever layout the necessary coin to replace such a talented player, especially considering that Wenger will be a lame - duck manager once again in the final year of his contract and we know how well that went last year... open your eyes people, Wenger has spoken publicly about how he hopes that the next manager can take this club to the next level... WHAT?!?... he then went on to speak about leaving them in the perfect position to be successful, which is one of the reasons why several pundits felt Wenger would leave after last season based on the financials and the fact that so many players had only one year left on their respective contracts... who says this shit??? If you believe you're leaving things in the best possible shape for your potential successor to achieve greatness it raises a couple of serious questions: Why can't you take things to the next level if everything is as great as you say?

Especially because Wenger's job as stabiliser / placeholder / lame duck is not necessarily a bad thing in the middle of a rebuild.

«I don't know how it is inside other clubs, I can't tell you this, but in Germany we use the same phrase as you do here — a lame duck,» Klopp continued, referring to a term used to describe a manager on the way out of his club.

While many will point to Hiddink's position as a lame duck in the dugout, that can't be to blame.

That leaves Hiddink as a bit of a lame duck in the dugout, with nothing to push for this season, and no future at the club towards which to build anything.

That window of opportunity will close in about 24 months as the terms of these top officials move toward lame duck status.

Gov. David Paterson this morning insisted this morning that his «lame duck» status has actually «freed» him to make the hard choices necessary to restore New York to fiscal solvency and leave the state on more stable footing for whoever succeeds him in the office.

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.

He said there is a strategy in place to try to repeal the policy in the lame - duck session of Congress.

In the WBEN interview he described himself as «not a lame duck... but a free duck.»

Did you have a plan for DADT repeal in the «lame duck» session after you lost your Speakership, before the TeaParty took over the House with Boehner at the helm?

«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.

The $ 315 million midyear budget gap could lead to another transit raid in the $ 20 million range before the year is out, if Governor Paterson convenes a lame duck special session and Albany repeats the same sort of heist it pulled off this fall.

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

In the extreme case, should the Democrats win the presidential election, Republicans acting rationally should prefer swallowing their pride and approving Obama's (centrist) nominee in the lame - duck session to being essentially forced to approve a more left - leaning nominee under a new Democratic presidenIn the extreme case, should the Democrats win the presidential election, Republicans acting rationally should prefer swallowing their pride and approving Obama's (centrist) nominee in the lame - duck session to being essentially forced to approve a more left - leaning nominee under a new Democratic presidenin the lame - duck session to being essentially forced to approve a more left - leaning nominee under a new Democratic president.

Paterson may be a lame duck with a low appropval rating, but he remains a popular figure in on his home turf, so his endorsement in this race could carry some weight.

Yes, it's much easier to run against a lame duck and all, but where's the honor in that?

When it comes to the question of who's most at fault for the mess in Albany, voters are split, with 27 percent saying it's the Democrats who control both houses of the Legislature and 24 percent pointing the finger at lame duck Gov. David Paterson.

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.

But while Democrats are in the majority, several were absent, including Senate President Malcolm Smith of Queens, on a junket in China, Kevin Parker of Brooklyn, who was on trial for allegedly attacking a Post photographer, and lame - duck Pedro Espada of The Bronx.

That pact guaranteed hundreds of thousands of dollars in staff to now - indicted coup leader Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. (D - Bronx) and allowed lame - duck Senate leader Malcolm Smith (D - Queens) to keep most of his top aides on the public payroll.

Sacha says that while Paterson was interested in pursuing the case last fall when he was a candidate for governor, the lame duck governor is now committed to protecting the gubernatorial aspirations of Cuomo, a fellow Democrat.

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.