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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"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.
The force summoning them back in this pitiable condition is the lame-duck session.
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.
Because as it now stands, the decision will probably have to be made in a lame-duck session, under an old Congress.
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.
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.
The automakers' best hope for funds from Congress is the potential lame-duck session later in the month, when there might be a fiscal stimulus bill.
It's too much to expect a few weeks of lame-duck session to accomplish more than this Congress has done in any of its previous 22 months.
Joe Biden, reportedly will not participate in the lame-duck session.
That would leave a brief lame-duck session after the elections as the only opportunity to head off the cuts before they take effect, and nobody is counting on that happening.
The White House is pushing to enact several pieces of legislation during the lame-duck session, and Barkley's vote could be important because of the narrow partisan divide in the Senate.
Unfortunately, members have come back for a lame-duck session.
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He is insisting that the United States Senate accede during the post-Thanksgiving lame-duck session to his demand for the repeal of a 1993 law prohibiting homosexuals from serving in the armed forces.
Early reports from the deficit commission are touching the third-rail of politics (Social Security) and that may heighten the tax, spending and deficit cutting debate, leading to further gridlock in the upcoming lame-duck session.
Obama did, however, strongly urge Bush to support billions of dollars in aid for the struggling auto industry during the increasingly likely lame-duck session of Congress, according to three officials briefed on the meeting.
It is hard to imagine, moreover, that the three Senators who are expected to be seated in time for the lame-duck session will be in a position to make informed decisions about this treaty.
The spokesman said he also saw no need to delay next month's lame-duck session or to sign another temporary funding measure through the end of Clinton's term, which ends Jan. 20, when the new president takes office.
Reassembling for their lame-duck session last month, the first thing the Republicans did was scrap this provision so that the majority leader, Tom DeLay, could stay on even if he were to be indicted in a Texan money-politics scandal.
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