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by every single state legislature, and in only 10 months. Under its provisions, Congressional terms, and the annual session, begin on January 3. (The President's term begins 17 days later to give the new Congress the opportunity to choose a President if there's no electoral-vote majority.) The amendment's sponsors assured the public that lame duck sessions were a thing of the past.Except they weren't: after election day, the old Congress still exists, and it can just come back into session. As constitutional scholar John Copeland Nagle of Notre Dame points out, many important laws have been passed by "lame duck" Congresses since 1933. The federal "superfund" law was passed in 1981 by a Democratic Congress that knew the new Republican Senate would block it. In 1994,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Democrats lost control of both House and Senate; the old Congress promptly met and implemented the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. What's the solution? To really abolish the "lame duck" session would require yet