Definitions for lame duck session
lame duck ses·sion

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1. Lame duck session

   A lame duck session of Congress in the United States occurs whenever one Congress meets after its successor is elected, but before the successor's term begins. The expression is now used not only for a special session called after a sine die adjournment, but also for any portion of a regular session that falls after an election. In current practice, any meeting of Congress after election day, but before the next Congress convenes the following January, is a lame duck session. Prior to 1933, when the 20th Amendment changed the dates of the congressional term, the last regular session of Congress was always a lame duck session. Congress has held 16 lame duck sessions since 1940. Recesses preceding lame duck sessions have usually begun by mid-October, and typically lasted between one and two months. Congress typically reconvened in mid-November and adjourned before Christmas, so that the lame duck session lasted about a month. Some recesses, however, have begun as early as August 7 or as late as November 3, and ended as early as November 8 or as late as December 31. Lame duck sessions have ended as early as November 22 and as late as January 3, and have extended over as few as one, and as many as 145, calendar days.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lame duck session in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lame duck session in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of lame duck session in a Sentence

1. Tony Evers:

   It is now abundantly clear that the lame-duck session was nothing more than an illegal power grab intended to override the will of the people.

2. David Abney:

   There are enough members of Congress that in the past have supported this that we think it is still a slight possibility this year, it would have to be in the lame-duck session, there is no doubt about that. And I am not at all predicting that this is going to happen, I'm saying we think there is a slight chance.

3. Cristina Martin Firvida:

   I don’t know why this had to be done on Day One, it makes it much less likely that we ’ll deal with the disability problem until the lame duck session - and that wo n’t provide a good result for American taxpayers.

4. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:

   I can't imagine that a Republican majority Congress in a lame duck session after the American people have spoken would want to confirm a nominee opposed by the NRA, the NFIB, and the New York Times says would move the court dramatically to the left, this nomination ought to be made by the next president.

5. Chief Executive Lance Fritz:

   It's a really hard call, it's very difficult to move anything in a lame duck session... but we'd like to see that and we'd really encourage that.

References

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