Sentence examples for legislative impasse from inspiring English sources

The new Congress must work to break the legislative impasse.

This may well prevent more radical proposals from making headway but could also lead to a legislative impasse.

A legislative impasse seems likely to extend beyond the July 1 deadline, as it has 17 times since 1977.

It is long past time for President Bush himself to get engaged in breaking this legislative impasse.

Other policymaking entities – particularly those with potentially more effective tools to help the economy reach escape velocity – need to act but are hampered by legislative impasse.

New York has so far forgone about $36 million in extra highway aid because of the legislative impasse, Senator Schumer said.

Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other top Department of Homeland Security officials have repeatedly insisted that the country's immigration impasse requires urgent legislative attention.

Between 3 and 4 a.m., the Senate adopted rule changes that Republicans and Democrats had negotiated during the impasse that brought legislative business to a halt for a month.

For the second consecutive year, Connecticut lawmakers have been forced to extend their annual legislative session, because of an impasse between Democrats, who control the Legislature, and John G. Rowland, the Republican governor, over how to spend a $500 million increase in the state budget.

Diplomats are especially galled by the promised bailout, considering that the government of the Western Hemisphere's poorest country has blamed its social and economic deterioration on the international community, which has frozen $500 million in aid until a political impasse over the legislative elections of May 2000 is resolved.

House Democrats, at an impasse, relinquished the legislative initiative to the southern Whigs.