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  • The people of NJ are being taken to the cleaners by a Lame-duck democrat governor and his cronies. what is the benefit?

    Same-sex marriage bill advances in New Jersey 2009

  • Lame-duck George W. Bush has accepted the infusion of massive federal debt into the private economy in order to save it, knowing that he has forfeited any small-government, fiscal prudence legacy.

    Washington is Crisis City again 2009

  • Lame-duck Democratic governors and their Republican successors in the Midwest are clashing over public workers' pay and benefits, in a preview of state budget battles across the U.S. next year.

    Governors, GOP Successors Clash on Pay Deal Amy Merrick 2010

  • Lame-duck issues: Okay -- so how do you feel about some of the big issues being taken up in this lame-duck session: extension of the Bush tax cuts, Alternative Minimum Tax relief, and the "doc fix" for Medicare?

    Outlook: Five myths about cutting the deficit William G. Gale 2010

  • Lame-duck issues: Okay -- so how do you feel about some of the big issues being taken up in this lame-duck session: extension of the Bush tax cuts, Alternative Minimum Tax relief, and the "doc fix" for Medicare?

    Outlook: Five myths about cutting the deficit William G. Gale 2010

  • Lame-duck sessions of Congress are comprised of exiting members, who are freed from both constituency and party constraints, and returning members, who face a significantly reduced constituency constraint but a still strong party constraint.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Lame-duck issues: Okay -- so how do you feel about some of the big issues being taken up in this lame-duck session: extension of the Bush tax cuts, Alternative Minimum Tax relief, and the "doc fix" for Medicare?

    Outlook: Five myths about cutting the deficit William G. Gale 2010

  • Lame-duck board in Texas okays discrimination ban.

    Interregnum means between reigns 2008

  • Lame-duck board in Texas okays discrimination ban.

    Who wants a lame duck? 2008

  • Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Lame-duck Bush filled with regret, monstrous ignorance

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Lame-duck Bush filled with regret, monstrous ignorance 2008

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