Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inconceivable that they had serious misgivings about the plan's heavy reliance on taxes and loose calculations of spending cuts; yet they felt that some deficit reduction, through dubious (and perhaps deleterious) methods, is better than no deficit reduction and continued gridlock...
...Capitol Hill last week that suggest that this White House may not spend all four years in intensive care. Most were months in the making, and none were unalloyed Clinton wins. But their combined effect broke the gloom that had pervaded the White House and fractured some of the gridlock in Washington. After weeks of intraparty wrangling, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee agreed to a deficit-reduction measure that included a gasoline tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. and a $68 billion cut in Medicare benefits over five years. While a vote in the full Senate...
Cambridge's proportional representation ballot process is a complex and confusing system which we believe contributes greatly to the underlying divisiveness and gridlock in Cambridge's elected government...
...find their own budget cuts -- and use up some of their own political goodwill in the process. If the result is a compromise that comes even close to Clinton's deficit-reduction goal, his strategy will be deemed a success. But if Senators fail to produce anything but gridlock, they won't be the ones to suffer humiliation...
Call it democracy. Call it anarchy. Call it gridlock. Call it another lesson in Governing 101 for Bill Clinton, now in the fifth month of his increasingly troubled presidency. Whatever it's called, the skirmishing between Clinton and Congress over the President's proposed deficit-reduction and tax plan threatened to erupt into all-out war last week as Republicans and several Democrats in both the House and Senate publicly attacked the proposal. If the Clinton package still has a fair chance of eventually passing in one form or another, that is less a tribute to the White House...