Sentences with phrase «lame ducks voting»
If anything is «not right» it would be lame ducks voting on leadership going forward.
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Given Cameron's role as a relentless champion for «remain,» even a close vote could force him from power or turn him into a lame duck.
Please don't think that by joining a group on Facebook or moaning on twitter we will get change.Its now or never that a lame duck CEO (who can't sack his own employee) and a majority shareholder (who can vote to pay himself # 3mill) and Arsene should give way for passionate people ie....
Valesky abstained from supporting Sen. John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, because newly elected senators weren't part of the lame - duck vote.
-- Tony Avella, of Queens, apparently was informed there would be a vote, but was otherwise engaged and couldn't make it to the Capitol for the lame duck session.
As the Journal's Jacob Gershman reports, lawmakers voted Monday to furlough 100,000 state workers for a single day next week, marking perhaps the first time that the governor's lame - duck status proved to be an asset as Albany's wrangling battle budget battle continued.
The State Senate and Assembly both postponed votes that had been scheduled to cram key legislation into the final days of the lame - duck legislature, including a vote on $ 5 billion in potential tax credits to help lure Amazon to the state.
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.
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.
The DOE science and energy programs were funded by the lame - duck House on Dec. 21, with 212 Democrats and 16 Republicans voting in favor, and 130 Republicans voting no.
Nor was Lincoln so idealistic that he'd be opposed to using corrupt means to buy the votes, such as by promising outgoing, «lame duck» members in House of patronage jobs as soon as their terms would expire.
Urged on by his boss, perpetually exasperated Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) reluctantly sends out a trio of scalawags — wonderfully played by James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson and a curiously under - utilized John Hawkes — to try and buy the votes of lame - duck Democratic congressmen with patronage jobs and folders of cash.
A team of men, led by the slimy W.N. Bilbo (James Spader) is tasked by Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) with essentially buying the votes of lame - duck Democrats, while abolitionist firebrand Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones, in a performance just as central and Oscar - worthy as Day - Lewis») coordinates backroom deals within his own party.
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.
A scene where he confronts a lame duck Democrat about his voting on the amendment is the film's finest — and funniest.
In bringing Lincoln back down to earth by examining the practical details of his fight to gain enough votes to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States through a lame duck session of Congress and to champion it within a divided Republican Party, Lincoln finds a more subdued sense of reverence for him — not only for what he accomplished but also how he went about accomplishing it.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nev., has vowed to bring back the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM, for a vote during Congress» lame - duck session.
The victors — and, in some cases, the lame ducks — will have a long to - do list on federal education policy and budget matters awaiting them after the Nov. 6 vote.
Senator Harry Reid says he may still try to pass even a minimalist renewable energy bill in the Senate, and then use it to ram through an economy - disrupting climate bill during a lame duck session, if even by a single vote.