But will this self-imposed deadline for departure leave Rhodri Morgan as a "lame-duck" first minister?
This is not to say that lame-duck sessions by nature can't do big things.
Is there any doubt that the current lame-duck board miserably failed in its job?
First, the Senate is not voting on any more legislation until the lame-duck session in mid-November.
One of the more sordid moments in recent congressional history came during last December's lame-duck session.
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Moreover, a lame-duck Senate session is hardly the place for momentous decisions about U.S. national security.
"So I don't see any reason why we can't work together in a lame-duck session, " he added.
And the immediate focus is going to be what we need to get done during the lame-duck session.
Lawmakers will be back on Capitol Hill this week for the final days of their post-election lame-duck session.
So the issue with lame-duck sessions is not their potency or their importance.
The force summoning them back in this pitiable condition is the lame-duck session.
This will come just as a lame-duck Congress is getting ready to call it a year and a session.
Will lame-duck Congressmen who lost their election punt this dirty deal to the next Congress, promising passage and retroactivity?
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The final two months of 2010 brought tumultuous elections and a lame-duck Congress that was the busiest in decades.
Look for the big showdown on extension of the tax cuts to occur during the lame-duck session in November.
The delay in holding a vote potentially sets up a clash over taxes in Congress's lame-duck session following the election.
"For the first time, he'll likely be viewed as a lame-duck governor, " said Mark Strama, a Democratic state representative from Austin.
On Tuesday he was a little less effusive in his self-praise, mostly because he was fielding questions about his lame-duck status.
Because as it now stands, the decision will probably have to be made in a lame-duck session, under an old Congress.
Indeed, with Tony Blair a lame-duck British prime minister, Germany could take on Britain's role as America's favourite partner in Europe.
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This will only be the fifth such lame-duck session in 20 years.
The lame-duck session of the outgoing Congress, which will take place after the election, may find a way to delay this reckoning briefly.
Republicans, because they still face a Democrat-controlled Congress in the lame-duck session, won't have the votes to permanently extend all the tax cuts.
Of course one must add that Congress could always find a way in the lame-duck session to kick the can down the road.
Klein also makes another key point, namely that the lame-duck session after the November election could be crucial for tax (and budget) issues.
Dean Barkley of Minnesota Tuesday to offer congratulations and any White House assistance as the independent prepares for a lame-duck session of Congress.
Never before in the history of the U.S. Senate has the ratification of a strategic arms treaty been considered in a lame-duck session.
Much of the work can--and probably will--be done in the "lame-duck" session following the election, but the dynamics of such sessions are notoriously unpredictable.
Despite the best efforts of critics led by Republican Whip Jon Kyl, the Senate's truncated lame-duck deliberations were, by and large, superficial and uninformed.
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Tax policy is just one of many issues that Congress will be confronting this week, the beginning of the end of the contentious lame-duck session.
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