At the pro forma session, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), presumably standing alone, will call for unanimous consent to pass the bill.
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Earlier in the session the Commons leader announced that MPs will sit an extra day on Friday 23 March to debate the Budget statement, due to be delivered by Chancellor George Osborne on Wednesday 21 March.
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Before the session was adjourned, DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson asked for clarification on the position of Progressive Unionist leader David Ervine, who has joined the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly Group.
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Late one night this week, your columnist met a young global leader who, after a happy drinking session, had wound up outside the wrong hotel.
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Barrichello was also third in the second session, just ahead of team-mate and championship leader Jenson Button.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, going into a Sunday strategy session with House Speaker Newt Gingrich, accused the President of theatrics.
Championship leader Jenson Button bounced back after a disappointing qualifying session to finish fifth, ahead of his teammate and rival for the title Rubens Barrichello who finished sixth.
Saturday's opening session was marred by the early and dramatic walkout of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who said the Arab League leaders were out of touch with Arabs and were working from the wrong agenda.
At a session with reporters in the Capitol this week, the majority leader gave a carefully worded and lawyerly answer four times when asked various questions about a trip he made to Great Britain with a lobbyist who was once his aide.
"We're going to have lots of votes today, " Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned Friday morning, going into the session.
The weekly business questions session is an opportunity for MPs to put topical questions to the leader of the House and request parliamentary time on matters they feel merit attention.
Former party leader Lord Ashdown is to make a speech on Saturday, and current leader Nick Clegg will do a question-and-answer session with activists.
Acme Packet is a leader in manufacturing an obscure bit of telco gear known as a session border controller.
The weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions was dominated by foreign affairs with Labour leader Ed Miliband focusing all his six questions on events in Egypt and the UK's mission in Afghanistan.
Answering AMs questions during the weekly session on 9 November 2010, Mr Jones' government was criticised by the leader of the Welsh Conservatives Nick Bourne AM for missing out on one of the rural broadband pilot projects introduced by the UK coalition government.
It was in November of 2007 when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid first declared the Senate to be in pro-forma session for the two-week Thanksgiving break.
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The pre-drinking session features Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and other tech companies, and now the leader of venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Late yesterday, Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Mark Warner (D-VA) and Jim Webb (D-VA) wrote a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), urging the use a pro forma session of Congress in order to offer a solution.
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The king told Mr Chavez to "shut up" after the Venezuelan leader repeatedly interrupted the Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, during the final session of Ibero-American summit in Santiago.
Reassembling for their lame-duck session last month, the first thing the Republicans did was scrap this provision so that the majority leader, Tom DeLay, could stay on even if he were to be indicted in a Texan money-politics scandal.
The first time the Conservative party leader, William Hague, heard about the plot was when Tony Blair announced it during a session of prime minister's questions.
"When Majority Leader Harry Reid asked me if I thought the treaty could be considered in the lame-duck session, I replied I did not think so, given the combination of other work Congress must do and the complex and unresolved issues related to START and modernization, " Mr. Kyl said in a statement.
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Shadow Commons leader Rosie Winterton also hit out at the proposals, saying it was more than 150 years since a session of Parliament had lasted for two years, accusing the government of an "abuse of power".
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