- In politics, a
lame duck or
outgoing politician is an
elected official whose successor has
already been
elected or will be soon. An
outgoing politician...
- Look up
lame duck in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
lame duck situation generally refers to a time
frame between a
decision and its implementation...
- 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...
- 23, 1933. The
amendment reduced the
presidential transition and the "
lame duck" period, by
which members of
Congress and the
president serve the remainder...
- "The
Lame Duck Congress" is the 28th
episode of The West Wing
which aired on NBC on
November 8, 2000, the day
following the 2000
United States Presidential...
- open-source technologies. In July 2008,
CodeWeavers launched the
Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge to
encourage President Bush to make the most of...
- presidency, with Cho ****
pledging to turn Yoon into "first a
lame duck, then a dead
duck". By 14
February 2024, a
total of 16
current members of the National...
-
mostly low
approval ratings as
president and had been
described as a
lame duck. On 3
December 2024, Yoon
declared martial law, the
first time it had...
-
forces and
questioned whether there was time for
ratification during the
lame-
duck session,
calling for an
opening of the
negotiation record before a vote...
-
December 2018). "The
Lame-
Duck Power Grab". Slate.
Retrieved 2025-04-16. Berman, Ari (14
December 2018). "Scott
Walker signs lame-
duck bills stripping power...