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It is critical that Congress not pass a lame-duck spending package that prevents a new Republican majority with hopefully a paradigm-shattering speaker from passing this budget early next year. – Russ Vought	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
All cowards. All of them, now they say,' Well, this will get done. Maybe after we get back from our summer recess, maybe during the lame duck' — because they're on Senate time. Do you understand you live around here ? Senate time is ridiculous. These mother * ers live to 200. They're tortoises. They live forever and they never lose their jobs and they never lose their benefits and they never lose all those things. Well, they're not on Senate time. They're on human time. Cancer time. – Jon Stewart**	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Many just accept that lame-duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck and milk it. I'm not putting Sarah Palin Alaska through Sarah Palin Alaska -- I promised efficiencies and effectiveness. – Sarah Palin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Bush was supposed to be an aberration and Obama a restoration, this idea of a reset seems a much tougher sell, especially since Trump's used Donald Trump lame-duck period to burn the house on the way out. – Tyson Barker	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm not going to be a lame duck, just watch me. – Biden TransitionBiden	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I would encourage Congress, particularly over the next few weeks of the lame duck, let’s try to get something done. – Steven Mnuchin	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It would be helpful if we could get that done, if you could get that done, i would encourage Congress, particularly over the next few weeks of the lame duck, let’s try to get something done. – Jerome Powell	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In the last midterm election before Justice Scalias death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck presidents second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party presidents Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year, by contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Preident Trump and support Preident Trump agenda, particularly Preident Trump outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise. President Trumps nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The successor issue disappears. The issue of Putin as a lame duck disappears. – Tatiana Stanovaya	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is very hard to see how the conference can continue this way, with a president who is even worse than a lame duck, the credibility of the Massimo Faggioli bishops is in freefall, which can only be stopped by a visible change in leadership. – Massimo Faggioli	Found on CNN 4 years ago
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. – Tony Evers	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think in the lame duck, there will be a major opportunity to address this in a definitive way, and I don't think we should underestimate the importance of the work that was done in the Senate when they had their immigration exercise and the work that we did here, that all sets up a possible resolution to all of this after the election. Which would be something to celebrate for sure. – Carlos Curbelo	Found on CNN 5 years ago
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. – Chief Executive Lance Fritz	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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. – David Abney	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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. – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The president nominates. The Senate confirms. The American people should have a voice, not this lame duck president out the door. – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It is possible for Congress to carefully consider the details of this agreement and to review all of the benefits associated with this agreement for states and communities all across the country without kicking the vote all the way to the lame duck period, there is no reason that we need to wait that long, and particularly when you consider the views that have been shared by some leaders in the business community about how important it is for this agreement to get implemented so that American workers and American businesses can start reaping the businesses. – White House spokesman Josh Earnest	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A lot of people on something this important do not want to have it passed or rejected by a lame duck Congress. – Orrin Hatch	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'll tell him what is a lame duck, and that is trying to get into Downing Street on the back of Alex Salmond’s coat tails, never mind talk of ducks, I am looking at Alex Salmond’s poodle. – British Prime Minister David Cameron	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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. – Cristina Martin Firvida	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's a real wild card in the House whether (Speaker John) Boehner is going to be empowered by this larger majority or whether they're going to be a bigger thorn in his side in the way we've seen in the past, so as we look to whether the relative harmony and lack of drama of this lame-duck period can continue in the new Congress, I think that's going to be a major factor. – The Atlantic Molly Ball	Found on CNN 9 years ago

It is critical that Congress not pass a lame-duck spending package that prevents a new Republican majority with hopefully a paradigm-shattering speaker from passing this budget early next year.

– Russ Vought

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

All cowards. All of them, now they say,' Well, this will get done. Maybe after we get back from our summer recess, maybe during the lame duck' — because they're on Senate time. Do you understand you live around here ? Senate time is ridiculous. These mother *** ers live to 200. They're tortoises. They live forever and they never lose their jobs and they never lose their benefits and they never lose all those things. Well, they're not on Senate time. They're on human time. Cancer time.

– Jon Stewart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many just accept that lame-duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck and milk it. I'm not putting Sarah Palin Alaska through Sarah Palin Alaska -- I promised efficiencies and effectiveness.

– Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Bush was supposed to be an aberration and Obama a restoration, this idea of a reset seems a much tougher sell, especially since Trump's used Donald Trump lame-duck period to burn the house on the way out.

– Tyson Barker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm not going to be a lame duck, just watch me.

– Biden TransitionBiden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I would encourage Congress, particularly over the next few weeks of the lame duck, let’s try to get something done.

– Steven Mnuchin

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It would be helpful if we could get that done, if you could get that done, i would encourage Congress, particularly over the next few weeks of the lame duck, let’s try to get something done.

– Jerome Powell

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In the last midterm election before Justice Scalias death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck presidents second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party presidents Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year, by contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Preident Trump and support Preident Trump agenda, particularly Preident Trump outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise. President Trumps nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The successor issue disappears. The issue of Putin as a lame duck disappears.

– Tatiana Stanovaya

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is very hard to see how the conference can continue this way, with a president who is even worse than a lame duck, the credibility of the Massimo Faggioli bishops is in freefall, which can only be stopped by a visible change in leadership.

– Massimo Faggioli

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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.

– Tony Evers

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think in the lame duck, there will be a major opportunity to address this in a definitive way, and I don't think we should underestimate the importance of the work that was done in the Senate when they had their immigration exercise and the work that we did here, that all sets up a possible resolution to all of this after the election. Which would be something to celebrate for sure.

– Carlos Curbelo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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.

– Chief Executive Lance Fritz

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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.

– David Abney

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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.

– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The president nominates. The Senate confirms. The American people should have a voice, not this lame duck president out the door.

– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is possible for Congress to carefully consider the details of this agreement and to review all of the benefits associated with this agreement for states and communities all across the country without kicking the vote all the way to the lame duck period, there is no reason that we need to wait that long, and particularly when you consider the views that have been shared by some leaders in the business community about how important it is for this agreement to get implemented so that American workers and American businesses can start reaping the businesses.

– White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A lot of people on something this important do not want to have it passed or rejected by a lame duck Congress.

– Orrin Hatch

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'll tell him what is a lame duck, and that is trying to get into Downing Street on the back of Alex Salmond’s coat tails, never mind talk of ducks, I am looking at Alex Salmond’s poodle.

– British Prime Minister David Cameron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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.

– Cristina Martin Firvida

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's a real wild card in the House whether (Speaker John) Boehner is going to be empowered by this larger majority or whether they're going to be a bigger thorn in his side in the way we've seen in the past, so as we look to whether the relative harmony and lack of drama of this lame-duck period can continue in the new Congress, I think that's going to be a major factor.

– The Atlantic Molly Ball

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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