However, two more months passed without word from Yahoo!

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According to the new constitution, parliamentary elections in the main, lower house, must be called two months after that document passed -- so there is a lot of jockeying ahead of a late February vote.

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Two months ago, when Congress passed a supplemental war spending bill, it ordered the White House to provide a progress report by July 15.

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Remember that crazy two month long extension that Congress passed a couple of months ago?

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Kind of the final one is kind of when you do return to Earth and kick off all those relationships that, whether they were two weeks or six months later, have -- time has passed and you have to kind of rebuild them a little bit.

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The House passed similar legislation last October, but there was insufficient time before the legislative session ended for a conference committee of the two houses of Congress to resolve differences with the Senate version, passed 11 months earlier.

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In recent weeks two badly needed laws, a bankruptcy law and a loan-guarantee law, were passed after months stuck in Congress.

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The automatic spending cuts were originally set to take place on 1 January, before Congress passed a last-minute deal to prevent tax rises on most Americans and delay the cuts for two months.

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