But now Congress is trying to use special rules to ram through their same trillion-dollar health care bill.
Many of you will remember that the CBO cooked the books last year to help ram through Obamacare.
And Mr Obama's administration will probably hesitate to ram through dramatic emissions cuts by decree, for fear of appearing undemocratic.
Interestingly, his decision to ram through the unpopular Affordable Care Act two years ago has put us at a new defining point.
Some of his supporters will want him to use this enviable position to ram through pet policies like banning abortion or bringing back capital punishment.
For two years they've tried to ram through big rate hikes on coal shipments--drawing an antitrust suit by utilities and an investigation by the Justice Department.
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Unhampered, therefore, by the need to forge awkward coalitions, as other premiers in the east had to, he has been free to ram through his reforms.
Representative JEB HENSARLING (Republican, Texas): Mr. Speaker, today the Democrat majority in Congress will no doubt ram through a bill representing the single-largest step in Washington-controlled, bureaucratized, rationed, socialized healthcare.
Should Romney win the election, any attempts by a lame-duck president to ram through a trade deal will be met with fierce opposition from Congressional Republicans and a near-certain veto threat by a new administration.
The Government's programme is a bit bogged down at the moment - and you would need the best part of a whole Commons day to ram through the second reading, committee, report and third reading of even a short emergency bill.
Vice President Joe Biden reportedly dismissed the prospects of such Senate opposition and felt confident that he could ram through not only a START follow-on but the previously rejected Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), all without addressing the serious problems identified by the Perry-Schlesinger Commission and now by a decisive faction in the Senate.
President Obama's diminishing of our sovereignty, notably by trying to ram through the Senate the Law of the Sea Treaty - the subject of two more hearings this week in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including the first in which opponents have been allowed to testify, led by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Congress tried to ram SOPA through without hearing from Internet or cybersecurity experts.
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Mr Hollande argues that he does not want to ram change through.
As with so many federal issues in Canada, any real change in policy is unlikely until there is a majority government with the strength and will to ram it through.
This time the government will probably use the Parliament Act to ram it through the hostile upper house something that has happened only three times since 1949 (when a new version of the act came in), and then only for important laws on the age of consent, war crimes and constitutional change.
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The effort to ram the treaty through before Christmas is no more justified than it is precedented.
That's why the Republicans in Congress have resorted to extraordinary blackmail tactics to try to ram their program through.
Mr Byrne said the government was showing "contempt" by trying to "ram this bill through the House in just one day".
This is perhaps why he decided just five months after his overwhelming re-election victory to recall parliament from its summer recess to ram the bill through in a matter of days.
The bill's stumble raises a larger question of why the GOP leadership decided to abandon a bipartisan approach and instead to try to ram a bill through the House despite its narrow majority.
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President Obama is trying once again to ram a legislative initiative through Congress knowing full well that, by so doing, he is maximizing the chances that his project's defects will not become widely understood until it is too late to do much about them.
And bills should be examined in draft by select committees so that governments cannot use their majorities to ram ill-considered legislation through the House.
In the Senate, Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions and others have repeatedly expressed the fear that Democratic leaders will try to ram the Gang of Eight's plan through before other members have a chance to properly consider the bill.
Whereas Obama's decision to ram the nationalization of the US healthcare industry through Congress against the wishes of the American public caused his personal ratings and those of his party to plummet, were Obama to decide to take on Iran, he would win the overwhelming support of the American public.
Johnson teaches his corporate clients to search a vehicle for an improvised explosive device (look for exposed wires and an alligator clip) or to practice evasive driving maneuvers in the event of a kidnapping scenario (back up the car, drive through the situation, or "ram, " which is pretty much what it sounds like).
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