A lame-duck session of Congress in the United States occurs whenever one Congress meets after its successor is elected, but before the successor's term...

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In politics, a lame duck or outgoing politician is an elected official whose successor has already been elected or will be soon. An outgoing politician...

long session beginning in Decembers of odd-numbered years, and in a short lame-duck session in December of even-numbered years. The long lame-duck period...

life and law practice in Buffalo. He continued to be active in the lame duck session of Congress that followed the 1842 elections and returned to Buffalo...

to come up for voting. Sam's idea that they should try to call a lame-duck session of Congress to pass the Treaty before this happens gets the OK. Communications...

asserted that SAFE Banking Plus was likely to be on the agenda in the lame-duck session following the November elections, as did Dow Jones' MarketWatch, while...

curb the powers of the incoming Democratic administration during the lame-duck session. In December 2018, Walker signed legislation to strip powers from...

Congress passed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act during its lame duck session and President Chester A. Arthur, himself a former spoilsman, signed...

appropriation bills, has not been completed, Congress will often meet in a lame-duck session, adjourning as late as December 31, before the newly elected Congress...

vote in the lame duck session of the 43rd Congress, and President Grant signed it into law on January 14, 1875. After the close of the session, Sherman returned...

legislature's actions in the lame-duck session had not been unconstitutional. The Wisconsin Supreme Court also endorsed most of the lame-duck laws the legislature...

Harding did not survive to meet. A month after the election, the lame-duck session of the outgoing 67th Congress met. Harding then believed his early...

and questioned whether there was time for ratification during the lame-duck session, calling for an opening of the negotiation record before a vote is...

followed by Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R-Mich.) on November 18. As the lame-duck session of Congress opened in November, House Majority Leader Rainey—bowing...

Rican status referendum, the Puerto Rican legislature passed in a lame duck session Law 167 of 2020, replacing the Puerto Rico Equality Commission with...

Federal Reserve banking systems. On January 25, 1933, during the lame duck session of Congress following the 1932 elections, the Senate passed a version...

legislation that would enroll the amendment later in the year during a lame-duck session. In 2019, a North Carolina judge offered an opinion that the General...

the long-term deficit requirements of the "Byrd rule". During the lame duck session of the 111th Congress, Obama and Republicans wrangled over the ultimate...

negotiations and compromise between Democrats and Republicans during the lame-duck session. After initially criticizing the bill, President Donald Trump signed...

that should Clinton win, Garland should be confirmed in the Senate's lame-duck session because he is less liberal than any nominee Clinton might put forward...

the lame duck session. If he didn't do so, they said, they would make a resolution to expel him the first order of business at the lame duck session. On...

their victory in the 1860 presidential election. During the 1856 lame duck session of Congress, Brooks made a speech calling for the admission of Kansas...

Civil Rights Act of 1866. Reelected in 1866, Hayes returned to the lame-duck session. On January 7, 1867, he voted for the resolution that authorized the...

July 31, 2019. "Wisconsin Republicans seek to hobble Democrats in lame duck session". The Guardian. December 2, 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2019. "Scott...

passed without putting it to a vote. After an election during the lame-duck session, quorums are notoriously difficult to muster, more so in the House...

Congress along with the White House in the election of 1800, the lame-duck session of the 6th Congress in February 1801 approved a judiciary act, commonly...

expired on March 4—because the contingent election was conducted by the lame-duck session of the 6th United States Congress when the House of Representatives...

Democratic membership in the following Congress, Republicans used the lame-duck session of the 40th United States Congress to pass an amendment protecting...

November, it did not come into office until the following March, with a "lame duck" session convening in the interim. This practice was altered in 1933 following...