The phrase "lame duck" itself came into use in the U.S. Congress in the early 1800s.

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Bend your knees and duck down, rolling your head in a 'U'shape under the punch from 'inside' to 'out.

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Moreover, a lame-duck Senate session is hardly the place for momentous decisions about U.S. national security.

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There are also some Obama-backed U.N. treaties that defeated globalist-oriented lame-duck members of Congress with nothing to lose may successfully help to push through for ratification before leaving office.

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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.

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