Sentence examples for legislative quagmire from inspiring English sources
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — With the Senate sinking into a legislative quagmire over Iraq, lawmakers and their allies are shifting to what has proved to be more solid ground when it comes to the war: political recriminations.
Subsequent federal laws to protect the flag have been either overturned or gotten stuck in a legislative quagmire, usually in the House.
With the Democrats holding a majority in one half of Congress, they'll be able to block GOP priorities, turning the legislative branch into a quagmire where little gets done even as they pass their own mostly symbolic bills.
President Clinton's administration went straight from Inauguration Day into a quagmire over gays in the military (though it is difficult to think of moral issues in terms of legislative priority) and health care reform.
The lawsuit, which names Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders as defendants, asserts that the officials' effort to redraw Assembly, Senate and Congressional district boundaries to reflect the most recent census "has stalled and threatens to throw the state's 2012 elections into a quagmire absent court intervention".
"It's a quagmire," Mr. Rutherford conceded.
Fears of a quagmire are understandable.
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