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 ...

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 ...

And there’s a lot Biden might do after the election that he wouldn’t do before it. The so-called lame-duck session — the period from Election Day until the new president takes office the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The presidential lame-duck period will run from this coming Tuesday, Nov. 6, to Jan. 20. The departing president can still make executive orders and Congress can still pass laws during this period.

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 ...