Kansas law allows county treasurers to stay in office for 11 months after their replacement is elected. But Shawnee County commissioners plan to talk Monday about asking state lawmakers to shorten the lame duck period to two months, county counselor Rich Eckert said Thursday.
Poised for lame-duck victories spanning foreign, economic and social policy, President Obama is seeing a renewed sense of accomplishment after his first two years in office, which were filled with a brutal health care fight and crises ranging from financial meltdowns to environmental disasters. Mr. Obama's recent high-profile successes in brokering a tax-cut compromise and pushing through repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service members would seem to support a starkly different narrative than that put forth just weeks earlier after what he described as his party's "shellacking" at the polls in November.
The DeSoto Board of Supervisors took a two-way street on approving the purchase of roadside maintenance vehicles to comply with a state law meant to curb ill-intended, lame-duck spending. County road manager Russell Dorris' department is buying $1.2 million in mowers, boom trucks for limb removal and other equipment. On the list are 18 items in seven categories, but because the delivery date for items in three categories was likely to be after July 1, these purchases could run afoul of the law.
Lawmakers in both the Assembly and Senate have scheduled votes Monday -- the last day of the lame-duck legislative session -- on a bill that would allow school elections to be moved to November. The legislation, promoted by its sponsors as a property tax reform measure, was introduced in December and has quickly moved through both houses.
It looks like eight is enough for Marvin Lewis in Cincinnati. The Bengals' head coach is a lame duck. His contract runs out after this season, his eighth in Cincinnati. He has had two playoff seasons -- and just two winning seasons -- out of eight. His teams have not won a playoff game. His record is 58-64-1 overall and 2-7 this season entering today's game against the Bills.
Lawmakers returning Monday for the start of the lame-duck session on Capitol Hill face an age-old political conundrum: How to respond to voter anger over federal spending without cutting into the entitlement programs and tax breaks that so many of their constituents enjoy. It's a thorny political issue that promises to haunt lawmakers, who face renewed electoral pressure to speak out against government spending and the soaring national debt, but who also spent the campaign season avoiding detailed discussions about the nation's fiscal health beyond vague generalities and fuzzy math about their plans to cut waste and reduce spending.
Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well-spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare, financial reform and a near trillion-dollar stimulus that will significantly transform the country. But spent nonetheless. There's nothing left with which to complete his social-democratic ambitions. This would have to await the renewed mandate that would come with a second inaugural. That's why, as I suggested last week, nothing of major legislative consequence is likely to occur for the next two and a half years. Except, as columnist Irwin Stelzer points out, for one constitutional loophole: a lame-duck Congress called back into session between the elections this November and the swearing-in of the 112th Congress next...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) issued the following statement in response to an ethanol proposal floated by Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Finance Committee. The draft legislation would cut the U.S. ethanol subsidy (known as VEETC or the blenders' tax credit) from 45-cents per gallon to 36-cents per gallon, but extend the tariff on imported ethanol at its current rate of 54-cents per gallon -- doubling the effective trade barrier that benefits corn ethanol from nine to 18 cents. This statement should be attributed to Joel Velasco, UNICA's Chief Representative in North America. Despite calls from across the country to reform 30 years of U.S. ethanol policy, some in Congress are intent on making a bad situation even worse...
The Bergen County Freeholder Board voted Wednesday night to overturn and review several appointments and policy initiatives that were approved late last year by the outgoing county executive, Dennis McNerney, and the lame-duck Democratic Freeholder Board. The board, which is now controlled by Republicans, voted 4-2, with one abstention, to rescind the appointment of its clerk, Jennifer Holdsworth Kleinman, and replace her with Karen Mastriano.
Even when [David Paterson] began his tour of the grounds with the dutiful regiment of media and Fair brass in tow, the lady hawking Steam Mops in the Horticulture Building shouted over her amplified headset: "Somebody famous likes Steam Mops!" Didn't matter that she didn't recognize the big shot. There was no mad rush of fairgoers to witness a Steam Mop demo with the celebrity endorsement. [Rick Lazio], like Paterson, was also involved in several cases of mistaken and unassuming identity. He sidled up to just about every person sitting at a table eating in the International Building and startled them with a "Hi! I'm Rick Lazio!" blitzkrieg, causing several people to almost spill their food or drink. Not many people recognized him, and a few even looked apprehensive before the modern-day...
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