It is worth noting, though, that the vagaries of the lame-duck period in American politics gave Trump and McConnell the ability to do exactly what they did as the inauguration of Biden approached.

Lawmakers return Tuesday after a six-week election break, where a lame duck session will blend lingering issues with the forward motion of the incoming Congress. With government funding set to run ...

A LAME LAME DUCK? The likely GOP sweep of the House, Senate and White House has dampened expectations for health care policy riding in a lame-duck package. Since Democrats control the Senate until ...

Hats off to him. But Biden is a lame-duck president, the Senate is in a lame-duck session, and it’s time to look forward. Biden himself paved the way. He chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

With fewer than 70 days left in office, United States President Joe Biden has officially entered the “lame duck” phase of his presidency – the period of time between administrations when a ...

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Wednesday there is a chance that Congress could pass additional funding for Ukraine ahead of the transition to a ...

But with the election of DONALD TRUMP, does criticism or pressure from the lame-duck Biden administration really matter? That’s the big question that U.S. officials and Middle East analysts are ...

What happens now? There’s a 2½-month period between Election Day and Inauguration Day. It’s commonly known as the “lame-duck” period, when the outgoing president still holds official power but their ...

Senate Democrats will look to press forward with confirming more of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks during the lame-duck session, their last opportunity before Republicans regain the ...

It is possible and maybe likely that Boone, who was a lame duck in 2021 and essentially a lame duck this past season, again will manage the Yankees without any contractual promise that he will ...

It’s a short but important to-do list as Congress returns to Washington this week to begin what is known as a lame-duck session — that period between Election Day and the end of the two-year ...