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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Unfortunately, that accord was subsequently, and scandalously, approved by the Senate during its lame duck session.
"So I don't see any reason why we can't work together in a lame-duck session, " he added.
Such an outcome may not happen during this week's lame duck session of the expiring 110th Congress.
And the immediate focus is going to be what we need to get done during the lame-duck session.
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?
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.
But that will give us time to act in -- potentially during the lame duck session to change this policy.
Because as it now stands, the decision will probably have to be made in a lame-duck session, under an old Congress.
In December, we were in what was called the lame duck session.
This will only be the fifth such lame-duck session in 20 years.
Indeed, no bilateral strategic arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union or Russia has ever been ratified during a lame duck session.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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