Republicans may have thought that the issue of Judge Merrick B. Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court had faded away like a summer hydrangea over the congressional recess.
It's thought that the issue is simply because the 6 Plus is so much larger and thinner than previous phones, that the aluminum case simply doesn't have enough strength proportional to its length.
Everyone was no doubt bored of hearing about them following the injunction spring, but, the absence was probably because it was thought that the issue of injunctions had been satisfactorily addressed by the master of the rolls report on superinjunctions.
"Positively, the deal is settled and out of the way, as it was thought that the issue could drag on into 2017," said Thomas Kinmonth, an analyst at ABN Amro, who added that without restructuring a cash call would have to be undertaken before 2019.
"We thought that the issue had gone away," says one science lobbyist about the NSF scandal.
Sinn Féin and the SDLP had opposed welfare reform plans agreed at Westminster, but it had been thought that the issue had been resolved by the Stormont House Agreement.
