Unfortunately, that accord was subsequently, and scandalously, approved by the Senate during its lame duck session.
Such an outcome may not happen during this week's lame duck session of the expiring 110th Congress.
The council wants the lame duck session of Congress to keep the funding target at 92% for 2009.
The House leaders say they will expel him during the lame duck session if he doesn't resign first.
And as from Senator Voinovich, is there any indication that this could happen in the lame duck session?
But that will give us time to act in -- potentially during the lame duck session to change this policy.
In December, we were in what was called the lame duck session.
Indeed, no bilateral strategic arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union or Russia has ever been ratified during a lame duck session.
That is why the President engaged with Republicans to reach the bipartisan tax cut deal that he reached in the lame duck session in December.
But he also said he didn't think a deal could be struck in the next month and a half during a lame duck session of Congress.
And I think, quite frankly, we were -- the country was successful at -- in getting things done in the lame duck session because of that very notion.
Republicans might be willing to resolve the looming problem of raising the federal debt ceiling by having it increased during the current lame duck session rather than waiting for the spring.
And even more important is whether Congress will extend the Bush tax cuts at least until the economy is growing respectably, when they come back for the lame duck session in November.
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Republican lawmakers are deciding Thursday whether they want to make a Right to Work push in a lame duck session, a possibility that has filled the state capitol with union protestors.
But, look, I would go back to what we were saying, Dan, in all honesty, back during the beginning of the lame duck session -- quite frankly, even somewhat directly after the election.
The lame duck session will be tough, too.
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Some of the steps that we took during the lame duck session, the payroll tax, the extension of unemployment insurance, the investment in -- or the tax breaks for business investment in plants and equipment -- all those things have helped.
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While the Republicans don't strictly need a speaker between now and Election Day, they would need one for the lame duck session that has to meet thereafter (ten of the dozen spending bills for the current fiscal year have yet to be approved).
But he accepted the responsibility, and as he oversaw our strategy during the lame duck session of Congress, he also was working to develop a structure and a plan for the next two years that I believe will serve the White House, and more importantly the American people, very well.
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We tend in this town to spend most of our time focusing on what we don't agree on, and I think, as I said earlier, the model of a lame duck session where people can have a civil conversation sitting at the same table making progress on issues is I think what the American people are looking for.
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.
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