But now the Democratic majority in the Assembly, with an eye on the same election, is trying to stall action.
Angering Republicans who lead the House, Mr. Reid kept the Senate shuttered on Sunday, in a calculated move to stall action on the House measure until Monday afternoon, just hours before the government's spending authority runs out at midnight.
THE German chancellor, Angela Merkel, had hoped to stall action on the Greek debt crisis until after regional elections on Sunday May 9th in North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's most populous and economically productive state.
WASHINGTON The Senate voted early Friday morning to force final action on a Pentagon spending measure as Democrats broke a Republican attempt to use the military money to stall action on the health care overhaul.
This conservative bias has had significant impacts on policy making at a national level; the scientific hedging has been used by mischevious or unethical climate change denying politicians to stall action, while governments with good will have underestimated the threats.
Any government that wanted to stall action could have played up the importance of the emails and called for more enquiries, but that didn't happen, so I think they had less of an impact than some people were claiming".
When Africa's lion population has fallen to around 20,000 individuals living on 8% of its habitat, it is not the time to stall action.
The fights highlight an ongoing problem for Obama's nominees: Even though Democrats changed Senate rules to eliminate filibusters of judicial nominees other than Supreme Court justices, senators have other ways to stall action.
When Democrats changed the Senate rules in late 2013 to require a simple majority, rather than 60 votes, to advance a nominee, Republicans retaliated by using even more procedural tactics to stall action.
Although the UN climate talks are stalled, actions government and corporate actions taken in the name of "climate change mitigation" will indeed put the world's remaining forests and other ecosystems under unprecedented pressure, this during a century when climate change is already seen to cause a first wave of forest die-back.
