lame duck
Example Sentences
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Lame-duck lawmakers are scrambling to act on last-minute — and mostly critical and contentious — issues before the 103rd General Assembly is sworn in on Wednesday.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2023
Lame-duck sessions of Congress are often regarded with an indifference befitting an afterthought, the tidying up of mostly minor matters.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2022
Lame-duck periods often feature a flurry of rule and regulatory changes.
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2020
Lame-duck sessions of Congress — the period when lawmakers who just survived or lost reelection return to Washington for work before the new Congress is sworn in in January — are notoriously difficult.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2020
Lame-duck sessions are always conducted in an awkward environment that throws House and Senate members who have just suffered painful political losses together with those who won.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2014
