Sentences with phrase «lame duck administration»

In a few short weeks, Mr Osborne has shredded his reputation and turned the Coalition into a lame duck administration.

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

Not exact matches

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.

to get a job in DC with the new Clinton administration, and the disappearance of that opportunity underscored how lame a duck she really is.

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.

While marking the end of this chapter of his nearly four decade career in public service, first as a teacher and administrator with Albany City Schools and then as a common councilmember and mayor, Jennings dispelled any notions of resignation or an otherwise «lame duck» administration to finish his final term.

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.

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.

Three other important federal education laws await final Congressional action, and if they don't get it during the waning weeks of 2016's «lame duck» session, the new administration will have a shot at influencing them during the 115th Congress.

And with Obama due to become a lame - duck president by year's end, his congressional Democrat allies have no reason to do any more than necessary for their political survival on the administration's behalf.

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.

That is prefereable to me, because I think that the next administration whould take time to analyze the best options, rather than let an unaccountable lame duck President and Congress set the tone.

This is the Bush Administration's last climate negotiation and they are lame ducks, of course.

Is this lame - duck administration trying to get these dadgone things launched just before they hit the dusty trail on shanks mare?

Proposed «lame duck» rule changes by the Bush administration have been challenged by the Ornithological Council, The Wildlife Society, and the Society for Conservation Biology.

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

In July, Coral Davenport at the Times reported that the Obama Administration is moving to propose fuel - efficiency standards for commercial aircraft, probably during the lame - duck period after Election Day.