Sentences with phrase «lame duck presidents»

So only lame duck presidents use executive orders?

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

This is a lame duck president.

He's a lame duck president with diluted power; Democrats control the U.S. House and Senate; and he's burned up much of his political capital with lawmakers wrangling over the war in Iraq.

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.

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And a quiet pause on judicial nominees for our lame duck president.

Not exact matches

More to the point, with a lame - duck, deeply unpopular Republican president and Democratic - controlled Congress, some say there's unlikely to even be a 2009 budget to serve as a vessel for pork stuffing, circumstances that make a moratorium much less punishing.

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

But with an interim coach, a lame - duck president, and that president's right - hand man plotting to take his spot, appeasing Gonzalez or anyone else like him was the last thing on the mind of anyone semi-in charge.

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 president.

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.

This time around, we would not sit down unconcerned for the Vice President to be made a ceremonial head and a [lame] duck as was done to the former Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama.

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:

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.

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.

Senior Tories condemn «lame duck» US president after he said an independent UK would be at back of trade deal queue

National and state Republican Party leaders are calling President Obama's upcoming New York visit a lame duck bus tour.

Republican leaders in the Senate have said they will not hold any hearing on Garland's nomination because Obama is a lame - duck President.

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

In a further gamble, the director and screenwriter strive to reveal their subject by limiting their film's scope, more or less, to a few mere weeks at the end of Lincoln's first term, at a time when the overwhelmingly popular president resolved to take advantage of the lame duck Congress to pass the 13th Amendment.

As the president points out to his secretary of state, William Seward (David Strathairn), the recent election has turned 64 Democratic congressmen into lame ducks — men who'll be out of work soon and might sell their vote for a government job.

Today, the president possesses platinum - level lame - duck status.

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.

New allegations help to put anonymous communication into context WASHINGTON D.C. ---- Rescuers of lame ducks in the Washington D.C. region are high alert after Washington Post national labor issues reporter Danielle Paquette on January 29, 2018 revealed alleged details of workplace misconduct claims made by at least three women against Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne -LSB-...]

Here is a president, some 8 years into his two term presidency and now, as a lame duck, he is announcing his climate goals for the nation.

Washington's outgoing public lands commissioner, Peter Goldmark, refused to lease state aquatic lands for the project — perhaps inspired by the not - so - lame - duck moves of our outgoing president.

I mean, who wouldn't want to tune in and have a jet - setting actor - millionaire, a government handout beneficiary, a Pope, the globe - trotting Secretary of State, the lame - duck president, the «Horndog - in - Chief» and the leader of the U.N. come on for 96 minutes and berate you for doing things like driving your car, eating hamburgers, and just not caring enough about the planet like they...

This attack on coal was welcome news for those of us concerned with climate change, because it marked the first time (and given his approaching lame - duck status, probably the last) the president had really taken on the issue with actual laws.

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

It's gotten so «silly» that even someone who calls himself a legal writer doesn't know that the vernacular term «Lame Duck» has been in common parlance for years, with respect to presidents and others, long before Obama arrived.

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.