In 1999, a fierce battle unfolded in the Ohio Legislature over legislation to deregulate the state's electric utilities.
In the Senate, Democrats blocked an attempt by Republicans to force negotiations between both sides of the legislature over a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Mr Niyazov occupied virtually all the high-level offices of state, and had gradually emasculated the government and legislature over the years, subsuming all power to the presidency.
The key event in Ukrainian domestic politics was a compromise reached between the president and the legislature over the division of powers (the so-called Power Bill).
In no circumstances, he says, should taxes be raised, and he has been in a constant war with the Republican-controlled legislature over state spending.
After clashing repeatedly with the noisy legislature over the last months, Mr. Wahid suddenly changed tack today, as he often does, and was contrite.
The law, the sharpest challenge yet to Roe v. Wade, was passed by the newly Republican-controlled legislature over the veto of Gov. Mike Beebe, a Democrat, who called it "blatantly unconstitutional".
Like Paterson, Christie fought with the state legislature over how best to combat deficits; his plan cuts eight hundred and twenty million from schools; four hundred forty-five million from municipal spending.
The certification also came as Mr. Chen's Democratic Progressive Party and the opposition Nationalist Party negotiated in the legislature over a bill that would require at least a recount.
Two Philadelphia City Council members sued the Pennsylvania legislature over its failure to pass gun-control legislation that would allow the city to curb an epidemic of gun violence.
A three-judge federal panel rejected a challenge by the Republican-dominated Legislature over Colorado's Congressional redistricting map, but stayed the ruling to see whether the Supreme Court took up the case.
