Even though Democrats control 59 seats in the Senate, they could not avoid a Republican filibuster of a bill that has had smooth sailing for 48 years.
Housing secretary-nominee Andrew Cuomo and Commerce secretary-nominee Bill Daley have had smooth rides toward confirmation, and Lott said this morning he expects a Wednesday or Thursday vote on Cuomo, and a Thursday vote on Daley.
"We've also had a smooth run with no reliability issues in races, " he added.
From a botched start to trading on the Nasdaq to the sharp decline in shares over the first several months of trading, the social network hardly had a smooth welcome to the public market.
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Gerry Prickett, the client project manager for the works, said media scrutiny had ensured the smooth running of the scheme.
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Ministers had hoped to smooth over dissent by introducing the cards gradually, beginning with students, foreigners, airport workers and other soft or sensible targets.
Then peers turn to the Public Service Pensions Bill - a measure which makes big and painful changes, but which has had a surprisingly smooth passage through parliament.
When Aliens: Colonial Marines (A:CM) was released last month, many fans who had anticipated the smooth, clean graphics of the trailers were disappointed to see blocky, early 21st century textures instead.
She had sometimes looked for sea glass on the beach in San Clemente, and her housekeeper Fina had cautioned her about picking it up, because the edges could cut you even when the rest had been worn smooth.
Mity-Lite contracted with a half-dozen consultants, who decided not to join the combined company and had little incentive to smooth out the transition.
Later this spring the Fed is expected to stop buying mortgage-backed securities, a move that is worrying those in the housing markets who had hoped for a smooth recovery.
But despite this initial reluctance on the part of the attendees, the first morning had gotten off to a smooth start.
The Alain Geoffroy tasted flabby and even a bit watery, while the grand cru wine had ripe peach, pear and apricot aromas, was smooth and flavorful on the palate, and had a juicy finish.
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The Obama administration, just two weeks on the job, had been lauded for running a smooth transition process and filling Cabinet posts early.
The test jet I flew had no autopilot to keep the plane smooth in turbulence.
The first was pristine: smooth and clear, it had the texture of a clam.
All that trash about the vodka being smooth: his whole conversation had been a sales pitch.
Leaving the island, torrential rain battered the boat and the rough sea had no desire to give us a smooth journey back to Guapi, typical for this perpetually hot, wet climate.
But the deal was not as smooth as aluminum siding, and Buffett had to work hard to clear the deal path.
The GMB union has disputed the figures and said that global companies had to learn "to take the rough with the smooth".
It says Tokyo was just "trying to smooth things over" by insisting that the Post had misquoted Mr Abe last week.
John Rogers, the chief officer of TTS, said his department had tried to make the transition to the new operator as smooth as possible.
This reluctance to sign a contract had also stopped Icann putting in place mechanisms to help the smooth running of the domain name system, he said.
There had been "failures galore" in the world of hedge funds, but all attempts of regulations had been rejected, because they would "interfere with the smooth working of financial markets".
"If you had no high resolution images and you tried to go someplace smooth from Viking images, you'd probably land someplace pretty rough and dangerous from a landing standpoint, " he said.
The WiFi remote that comes with the Hero3 Black Edition is similarly solid in its construction, though we wish it had the same textured skin as the camera instead of its smooth exterior.
In 1998 the SEC forced SunTrust Banks to restate three years of financials by claiming it had used overly generous loan loss reserves as a cookie jar to smooth earnings.
And the way we did it, we realized we could make a super smooth, creamy product that was the best ice cream we had ever tasted.
The official syncing program for Mac users isn't available yet, but I had a chance to try the beta version, and it was surprisingly smooth at syncing music from my iTunes library and photos and video from iPhoto.
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