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The Twentieth Amendment was adopted on January 23, 1933. [1] The amendment reduced the presidential transition and the "lame duck" period, by which members of Congress and the president serve the remainder of their terms after an election.
Lame duck politicians result from term limits, planned retirement, or electoral losses, and are especially noticeable where political systems build in a delay between the announcement of results and the taking of office by election winners. Even at the local level, politicians who do not seek re-election can lose credibility and influence.
This lame duck session was the first time since passage of the 20th Amendment that only one chamber returned to session after an election. The Senate select committee submitted its censure resolution on November 9, 1954.
HJR Q, which passed the House with bipartisan support during the previous term, is intended to prevent the exploitation of lame duck sessions, when lawmakers on their way out will sometimes pass ...
LANSING — Among other priorities during Michigan's lame duck session, several lawmakers hope to see an "archaic" piece of the state criminal code that outlaws sodomy repealed. The law isn't ...
What is a lame duck president? A. ... Congress passed a constitutional amendment that moved Inauguration Day to January 20, to allow for a speedier process between presidents and their successors.
The section also provides that if the president-elect dies before noon on January 20, the vice president-elect becomes president-elect. In cases where there is no president-elect or vice president-elect, the amendment also gives the Congress the authority to declare an acting president until such time as there is a president or vice president.
The “other” lame duck sessions when they did avoid appropriations measures occurred in 1994, 1998, 2008 and 2012. That is a staggering record of dysfunction and incompetence by both parties.