Sentences with phrase «lame duck up»
a lone lame duck up their on the tundra is lunch for the next hungry predator who comes along.
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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.
The House legislation could be taken up in the lame duck session after the mid-term elections, but even that isn't certain.
Everything seems up for grabs at present and Brussels is seen as a lame duck.
«People on the Hill kept saying, «The White House doesn't have a strategy» right up through the lame duck session,» Sudbay says.
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.
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.
Johnson and other city politicians deserve their problems because they are making it worse by cozying up to the governor against what they view as a weakened, lame - duck mayor.
The governor then reversed himself on that, saying the Senate recounts, which could continue into 2011, shouldn't impact a lame duck session because the current members of the Senate are all in office through the end of the year, although what would motivate those who are leaving to show up in Albany just days after Thanksgiving is a little hard to figure out.
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.
I agree with Dave Roberts — he comes across as honest and principled (the polling on this backs that up) and he is n`t a lame duck in 2 months time.
«These two weeks are just getting this lame - duck session put to bed in a way that we don't screw up,» the Republican said.
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.
Gov. David Paterson said during a Q&A with reporters today that he's happy the state lawmakers have woken up to the fact that he is all - powerful when it comes to the budget — lame duck, or no lame duck.
Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding his new make - shift office in a basement cubicle set up for lame ducks.
A very interesting review of our - currently - available talent, which, as you suggest, if it were better disposed would show up the lame ducks in the present government.
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.
But Rockefeller is retiring this year at the end of the current Congress, and his colleagues are extremely unlikely to take up, much less pass, any reauthorization before they adjourn after a lame - duck session in December.
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.
A proposed $ 5 million voucher program for military families that have children with special education needs is part of the defense - spending bill that Congress will take up in its post-election lame - duck session.
When Congress convenes in lame - duck status between November and January, taking up the future of NCES would be timely.
After November 8, when all 120 legislative seats in the Garden State are up for election, the legislature will reconvene for a Jersey tradition known as the «lame duck session».
The original bill died during the state's lame - duck session without action, due to delays caused by a blizzard and bitter infighting among Democrats that head up New Jersey's Senate and Assembly.
And I saw you make clearly inaccurate statements and when challenged to back them up, you again ducked accountability, offering the lame excuse that being accountable for your attribution of the «deaths of tens of millions» would be a «diversion.»
Methinks you can't come up with a plausible explanation of your description of «extreme right», thus you duck the question altogether with a lame put - down.
That's the way things are shaping up in the closing weeks of the post-election lame duck congressional session.