Word: gridlocking
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...WHEN THE GRIDLOCK BROKE...
...insurance because of existing medical conditions and increases the health care deduction for the self-employed. Taken with a 90-cent minimum wage increase, passed by week's end, the health care and welfare reforms ensure that this Congress will leave its mark. "We've seen Congress go from gridlock to Olympic gold," Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott told a group of cheering Republicans. Maybe. "Congress is like the sprint cyclists at the Olympics," says TIME's Michael Duffy. "It starts really slowly, and suddenly speeds up for no apparent reason and then just as suddenly, the race is over...
Perhaps appropriately, the Olympic-torch route through Washington is the most convoluted of any city's so far, with the potential to replicate the metaphorical gridlock on Capitol Hill with the real kind as 145 torch runners pay homage at every shrine in hopes of slighting no one. It's a touchier city than most: there are three branches of government to tip your hat to, plus the city administration, the various military services and their cemeteries and memorials, Presidents living and dead and the Vice President, who is said to be alive. Then there is a black college...
Because of council gridlock, Russell began her mayoral tenure two months later than normal, and crisis mediation has taken most of her time...
...active-duty personnel. The next day the Democrats offered an ad called "Empty." With a picture of a Senator's cluttered desk, the announcer says, "He told us...he was a doer, not a talker. Then he told us that he was quitting, giving up. Leaving behind the gridlock he helped create--and now all he offers are negative attacks...