Sentences with phrase «lame duck»

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

Maybe it's the nature of lame duck congressional sessions.

A big victory, with a big turnout, will be seen as a mandate, even as he enters lame duck status.

I don't have the greatest game, but I'm not lame duck either.

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

I suspect he was pleased, though his joy must have been tempered by the fact that he'll have to deal with this loud lame duck for the next seven months.

If anything is «not right» it would be lame ducks voting on leadership going forward.

It's a wild ride and a welcome departure from your standard comedy with these kinds of characters, which would result in a completely stupid movie with lame duck jokes.

So the stock market not only has bulls and bears, but the original lame ducks.

I got ta say, the free game for this week is a total lame duck.

As an entrepreneur, I do not believe in governments rescuing lame ducks.

After the deal was announced, but not closed, I became an instant lame duck.

But it's still a measure that shouldn't be passed by a flock of lame ducks.

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

Executive orders are abused by lame duck presidents and those without support in Congress.

June 27, 2016 • Britain's top political parties are scrambling to find new leaders as lame duck Prime Minister David Cameron heads to Brussels to attend European Commission meetings and reassure continental allies.

«Senate Dems press for lame duck action on renewable power grants» by Ben Geman for The Hill's E2 - Wire said:

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

AFL - CIO Report: Over 3 Million New Yorkers Could Be Harmed By Lame Duck Cuts to Social Security Tuesday November 27, 2012 at 12:12 pm

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.

That's the way things are shaping up in the closing weeks of the post-election lame duck congressional session.

While Scott Walker looks forward to looking at all aspects of the state budget Jim Doyle works to hamstring efforts by making lame duck commitments that will last for years after he leaves office.

«It's easy to make that association, but the budgets in New York State have been late 25 of the last 30 years, and only one of those years, 2006 when Governor (George) Pataki was in his last year, only one of those years was the governor a so - called lame duck,» Paterson told WOR's John Gambling (stop # 2 on the governor's Wednesday radio tour).

There's some personnel shuffling going on in the higher echelons of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner's lame duck administration.

Concerning the «Price Carbon Campaign / Lame Duck Initiative» meeting of center - right and «progressive» pols, wonks, and activists yesterday at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), herewith a few additional thoughts.

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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.

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.

Or in the case of lame duck politicians, then it is the certain knowledge that they will be shunned by the power - brokers after they leave office if they follow a particular course, i.e. no cashing in after leaving office.

With much political power and a sizeable number of lame duck Democrats with nothing to lose, Lincoln views it as the perfect time to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which would abolish slavery and essentially force the Confederates hand in the war.

It's unclear if Cuomo would be successful in securing the $ 30 billion from Congress, which post-Election Day has entered lame duck status and several states up and down the eastern seaboard will be seeking disaster relief.

Such a hole in intellectual thought will be difficult to fill, and our current lame duck president has small chance of finding a replacement of such constitutional fortitude.

Except it makes a certain amount of sense when you look at the different scenarios of Bud Black's lame duck year.

It's also how lame duck coaching staffs are created.

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.

So only lame duck presidents use executive orders?

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.

a lone lame duck up their on the tundra is lunch for the next hungry predator who comes along.

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:

There are too many lame duck Chiefs of Staff especially chiefs that remained on board after their pol that hired them was ousted in a residency scandal.

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.

In The West Wing, Martin Sheen's idealised presidency was born out of liberal frustration as lame duck Bill Clinton gave way to the Bush administration.

Wenger has a habit of hanging onto lame ducks which shows a level of loyalty and belief in his players, but perhaps stifles their development.

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.

The Classless Play of the Year Trophy goes — hands down — to lame duck Tampa Bay coach John McKay.

And I'm sure that his new and voluntary lame duck status would win him many battles in 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.

«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.