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A lame duck situation generally refers to a time frame between a decision and its implementation.
It may also refer to:
Lame duck (politics), an elected official who is approaching the end of his or her tenure, and especially an official whose successor has already been elected
Lame duck session, a legislative session that takes place after an election but before newly elected members are seated
Lame duck (game design), a player in a game who cannot win, yet remains in the game
Lame Ducks (TV series), a British sitcom
Lame Duck Amendment, an informal name for the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Lame duck season, in professional sports, a season prior to or during which a team has announced its intent to relocate to another metropolitan area but will remain in its existing home until the next year. Examples include:
1995 Cleveland Browns season, in which the team's reorganization in Baltimore was announced midway through
1996 Houston Oilers season, in which the team's move to Tennessee was announced beforehand
2017 Oakland Raiders season, in which the team's intent to move to Las Vegas was announced before the season and did not occur until after three full seasons in Oakland
Brain Donors, a 1992 film originally titled Lame Ducks
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Look up lameduck in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A lameduck situation generally refers to a time frame between a decision and its implementation...
23, 1933. The amendment reduced the presidential transition and the "lameduck" period, by which members of Congress and the president serve the remainder...
open-source technologies. In July 2008, CodeWeavers launched the Great American LameDuck Presidential Challenge to encourage President Bush to make the most of...
presidency, with Cho Kuk pledging to turn Yoon into "first a lameduck, then a dead duck". By 14 February, 2024, a total of 16 current members of the...
"The LameDuck 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...
Retrieved July 31, 2019. "Wisconsin Republicans seek to hobble Democrats in lameduck session". The Guardian. December 2, 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2019. "Scott...
legislature's actions in the lame-duck session had not been unconstitutional. The Wisconsin Supreme Court also endorsed most of the lame-duck laws the legislature...
"Amazon Urged To Ban Foie Gras: Animal-Rights Group Calls Retailer A LameDuck Over Controversial Food". International Business Times. Retrieved 3 April...
Court injunctions blocked his attempts to limit Cooper's power during a lame-duck special session. In 2022, McCrory ran for the U.S. Senate and lost the...
Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election. In December 1844, lame-duck President Tyler called on Congress to pass his treaty by simple majorities...
After Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued...
his life and law practice in Buffalo. He continued to be active in the lameduck session of Congress that followed the 1842 elections and returned to Buffalo...
inauguration, during which the outgoing president remains in power, but as a lameduck. Similarly, in some Christian denominations, "interregnum" (interim) describes...
Nepal National Investigation Department of Nepal "Much-hyped CIB turns a lameduck | Security | National | ekantipur.com". 202.166.193.40. Archived from...
winning the primary, Leatherman stated that Haley was not just a lameduck, but a "dead duck". Her second term as governor was set to expire on January 9...
47th Congress passed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act during its lameduck session and President Chester A. Arthur, himself a former spoilsman, signed...
mediocre audience scores, the big-budget sequel is struggling with its lame-duck status in the DC Extended Universe. Scott, Ryan (December 26, 2023). "5...
Chemistry. May 2011. Tien Nguyen (30 November 2011). "The Ristretto: The LameDuck of Coffee". LA Weekly. Retrieved 28 February 2015. The flavor is more...
asserted that SAFE Banking Plus was likely to be on the agenda in the lame-duck session following the November elections, as did Dow Jones' MarketWatch...
invited to headline a White House Christmas party in 1992, during the lameduck period after Bush had lost the election. Two years later, on October 22...
one reviewer put it, a "smart, conservative, principled voice". In "The LameDuck Congress", Ainsley dresses down Republican staffers who question her viewpoint...
1999 following the 2015 parliamentary election. After the election, the lameduck National Assembly—with a pro-government majority—filled the Supreme Tribunal...
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...
support in his own party. ... To a certain point, he sort of reached a lame-duck status". The list has also generated controversy over inclusions. In 2005...
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