Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gridlock is over," said Kennedy, chair of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee...
...POLITICAL INTEREST: Here Comes Gridlock...
Which is putting it mildly. Consider the role of Congress, the institution controlled by Democrats that is supposed to be an ally of a Democratic President, a confluence Clinton promised would end government gridlock. In speaking with Congress's Pooh-Bahs, the President-elect's people have heard the following advice, almost uniformly: Clinton must get the deficit down, and Congress is ready to help. O.K. so far. But don't you dare try raising taxes beyond the new levies on the rich that Clinton spoke about during the campaign. Oh? Well, then, which spending programs would Congress support cutting...
...billion a year -- or, as one economic adviser says, "virtually nothing." What's worse, says this Clinton aide, "after going over the list with Congress's key players, it's obvious that cutting any of them even fractionally would require the expenditure of enormous political capital," a prescription for Gridlock...
...POLITICAL INTEREST: Greed and Gridlock...