Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to know if you can increase gridlock," Edwards says. "I think gridlock is merely the people's representatives stopping unpopular legislation from being passed...
...consequences of a divided government is gridlock. In 1948, President Harry Truman ran by campaigning against the "do nothing" Congress and prevailed. Given the Republican filibusters at the end of the 103rd Congress, Clinton could adopt a similar strategy and run against the "do nothing" 104th Congress...
...position paper called "Contract with America," the supposedly revolutionary document contained mostly warmed-over Reaganomics. The risk of Gingrich in near control is that he will remain in his bomb- throwing role and never be accountable for the messy specifics of lawmaking. Nothing will do more to ensure gridlock in Washington...
...President is in a box. Elected to break the gridlock, he is now viewed as its captive. What to do? With the new Congress certain to be more conservative, more partisan and more polarized, Clinton faces several choices. He can keep playing an inside game and seek once more to work with Congress, but perhaps lose in 1996 if little is accomplished. He can champion welfare and lobbying reform and some further-reaching proposals (like abolishing the Education and Energy departments) to prove he's serious about downsizing government. That course could let him posture again as an outsider agitating...
...especially crucial that Kennedy be re-elected in order to prevent gridlock, while maintaining a Democratic majority in the Senate so that control is not turned over to Republicans like Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Orrin Hatch...