Word: gridlocking
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...past reform campaigns against drugs, smoking, pollution and drunken driving, an informal alliance of opinion leaders sees a chance to break gridlock and bad habits and reopen a national debate. While denying any move toward censorship, such radio stations as WBLS in New York City have stopped playing songs that might encourage violence and misogyny. Others have banned the inflammatory music of the Gangsta Rappers. Last week manufacturers of video games agreed to place voluntary warning labels on packages that would rate the violent content...
While it is true that many of Clinton's successes have come about by compromise, few Americans would with for a return to the stubborn gridlock that was the norm in Washington before this year. And after all, compromise is an essential aspect of politics; Clinton has demonstrated that he has mastered this concept...
...still put a fitting capstone on an unusually solid record of congressional accomplishment. For seven years, its passage had been blocked, as pro- and anti-gun-control forces angrily debated, drafted and redrafted its language. That it finally got through signaled that the 103rd Congress was serious about breaking gridlock in its own ranks and with the White House...
Congressman David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, burbled, "Gridlock is what you have when the traffic isn't moving. The traffic is now moving, baby, and we're moving some pretty big trucks." Senate minority leader Bob Dole claimed a share of the credit for his party, bragging that "Republicans made a difference...
...been helped by a perception in both parties that most voters are sick of deadlock and are demanding action. The ability of a relatively small group of Senators to come close to strangling the Brady bill again proved that the potential for gridlock still exists. But their failure proves that the fear of voter anger can overcome gridlock. Dole and other G.O.P. leaders did not dare let the public think that Republicans filibustered a popular bill to death. None of which guarantees that Clinton can repeat his successes next session. Congress will reconvene in an election year, which always intensifies...