But will this self-imposed deadline for departure leave Rhodri Morgan as a "lame-duck" first minister?
And he is a lame-duck, having announced his retirement at the end of this Congress.
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This is not to say that lame-duck sessions by nature can't do big things.
What is the President telling the congressional leaders what else he wants in the lame-duck session?
So why did this lame-duck president send lawmakers a trade agreement with Colombia Monday?
Is there any doubt that the current lame-duck board miserably failed in its job?
First, the Senate is not voting on any more legislation until the lame-duck session in mid-November.
One of the more sordid moments in recent congressional history came during last December's lame-duck session.
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Moreover, a lame-duck Senate session is hardly the place for momentous decisions about U.S. national security.
"So I don't see any reason why we can't work together in a lame-duck session, " he added.
And the immediate focus is going to be what we need to get done during the lame-duck session.
Lawmakers will be back on Capitol Hill this week for the final days of their post-election lame-duck session.
Terrorism insurance and the proposed new Department of Homeland Security are two Bush priorities for the lame-duck session.
So the issue with lame-duck sessions is not their potency or their importance.
The force summoning them back in this pitiable condition is the lame-duck session.
This will come just as a lame-duck Congress is getting ready to call it a year and a session.
But as Congress prepares for a brief lame-duck session next week, at least Democrats know where President Bush stands.
Will lame-duck Congressmen who lost their election punt this dirty deal to the next Congress, promising passage and retroactivity?
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The final two months of 2010 brought tumultuous elections and a lame-duck Congress that was the busiest in decades.
Look for the big showdown on extension of the tax cuts to occur during the lame-duck session in November.
The delay in holding a vote potentially sets up a clash over taxes in Congress's lame-duck session following the election.
"For the first time, he'll likely be viewed as a lame-duck governor, " said Mark Strama, a Democratic state representative from Austin.
On Tuesday he was a little less effusive in his self-praise, mostly because he was fielding questions about his lame-duck status.
Because as it now stands, the decision will probably have to be made in a lame-duck session, under an old Congress.
This would require a lame-duck Congress and, if Mr Obama loses, a lame-duck president to haggle over extending policies they detest.
Indeed, with Tony Blair a lame-duck British prime minister, Germany could take on Britain's role as America's favourite partner in Europe.
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This will only be the fifth such lame-duck session in 20 years.
High on the agenda as the lame-duck Congress convened this week were the Bush-era tax cuts due to expire on December 31st.
His demand that Senators approve this defective accord during the few days remaining in the lame-duck session amounts to contempt of Congress.
The lame-duck session of the outgoing Congress, which will take place after the election, may find a way to delay this reckoning briefly.
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