- 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...
-
mostly low
approval ratings as
president and has been
described as a
lame duck. On 3
December 2024, Yoon
declared martial law in
South Korea, the first...
-
After the election, an
outgoing president is
commonly referred to as a
lame-
duck president. A
transition can also
arise intra-term if a
president dies...
- election—before he took office—when the Republican-controlled
legislature met in a
lame-
duck session and p****ed
legislation to
reduce the
powers of the
incoming governor...
- Duterte's po****rity was a
rarity among Philippine presidents during their lame duck period given the public's
propensity for
getting bored with the current...
