The Lame Duck Congress was created on 2000-11-08.
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A lame duck is an elected official whose tenure is about to end. The 20th Amendment shortened the lame duck period by moving the beginning of the new Congress to January 3 and the presidential inauguration to January 20.
Elections were held in November. Congressmen serve until late January. Anyone who is currently serving but lost the election, and so will be leaving in late January, is called a lame duck.
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From a layman's point of view, a "lame-duck" president would be a president that everybody (including congress) simply ignored. He's there just to fill a space, until someone better comes along.
It isn't "sitting duck" but lame duck. A lame duck is a person in office whose term of office is nearly finished.
The cast of Lame Duck and the Knob Live at Oranssi - 2005 includes: Petri Helske as Drums in Lame Duck Tapani Kangas as Guitar and Vocals in The Knob Mika Tervonen as Bass in Lame Duck
The 20th amendment or the "Lame Duck" Amendment was created so elected officials could take office sooner after their elections, thus eliminating the 4 month period where "Lame Ducks" whose successors had already been chosen, sat in office not doing much.
In this case, the lame duck vice-president would become president.
Govener Jodi Rell is a lame duck because she is working beyond the election even if she is not reelected