Though the Senate made progress on the Medicare front, it faces difficulty in resolving other stalled issues, including $40 billion in added unemployment benefits and $24 billion in aid to states to provide health care to the poor.
Mr. Daley, a former banker and a commerce secretary in the Clinton administration — and the son and brother of longtime Chicago mayors — also spoke about his 2011 tenure in Washington, where he said gridlock in Congress led Mr. Obama to take matters into his own hands, with executive actions, on stalled issues.
WASHINGTON — After rebuffing the Bush administration on a number of fronts, European governments are signaling that they may be more willing to engage with the incoming Obama administration on a variety of stalled issues, including taking in prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay detention center and strengthening sanctions against Iran.
When Kahane, citing financial difficulties, stalled issuing the book, Nin borrowed $330 from another lover, the psychiatrist Otto Rank, to pay the printing costs.
Sinn Fein has accused the DUP leader Peter Robinson of deliberate stalling, issuing a series of warnings over the past few months that it would not forever stay in the Belfast Assembly unless it was part of a meaningful partnership.
He doesn't feel the community has reached out to those like him and isn't willing to wait for the crumbs the establishment drops occasionally -- like cocktail parties at the White House -- while stalling on issues of importance like employment and housing protections, Don't Ask Don't Tell, or relationship recognition.
Once there is real progress in solving stalled security issues and bridging differences, NATO-Russia relations will improve substantially.
Negotiations between the guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the makers of films and television programs, have been stalled over issues including the payment of residuals for the use of movies and shows after their initial screening.
Nuclear talks resume Wednesday between Iran and world powers after the last round stalled over issues that include Iran's planned heavy water reactor and the levels of uranium enrichment.
The stall issue had been raised during development, but had originally been discounted.
