Word: gridlocking
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...President raged that the Republicans were casting "votes for paralysis." Unfazed, G.O.P. leaders retorted that the spending bill, which steamed through the House last month, was an old-fashioned "tax and spend" bill larded with pork. "The American people are going to look at gridlock as a very favorable thing before too much time goes by," said Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island...
...crunch came, most swallowed their doubts and supported the President. "It was a wonderful beginning," Clinton said, extolling the House votes as a "victory for ordinary Americans and for the proposition that this government can work for them again, that we don't have to be mired in gridlock, that we don't have to spend all of our time posturing and dividing and running for cover instead of moving into the future...
Bill Clinton incessantly told voters last fall that he would end gridlock between the White House and Congress. That is one campaign promise he might keep. In early tests, the heavily Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has acted like an Administration steamroller. It easily passed not only a budget resolution embodying Clinton's ideas for tax increases and spending cuts but also the President's plan to spend an extra $16 billion to give an immediate stimulus to the economy. Some conservative Democrats had fought the additional spending as unnecessary, but on the decisive vote they heeded pleas...
...House Speaker)) Tom Foley has put the wood to the newcomers, so I think we're all right with them," says a top Administration official. This is a reference to a meeting with House freshmen last week, when Foley saw early retirement in the new members' futures if the gridlock persists when they face re-election in 1994. "It's a lot trickier with the big guys," says this aide, "and the early signs are troubling." Consider just a bit of the dust already kicked up by some Senate potentates, as described by this official: Paul Sarbanes has "privately signaled...
...idea: an Administration that lives like America, a government that drives its own cars, pays for its own meals and flies coach. Of course, worrying over such things is generally derided as cheap theater that saves almost no money. Yet, as symbolism goes, Clinton's plan to end limousine gridlock and severely limit the use of government planes is gratifying when one considers that a year or so ago flying on a government plane to a dentist appointment was not considered a firing offense...