But years of blocking what many see as a basic demand has built up frustration.
The House ended nine years of blocking a District of Columbia domestic partners law today, adopting the measure 226 to 194 despite opposition by most of the Republican leadership.
After years of blocking fast-track trade legislation, labor leaders are worried by plans to hold a House vote on fast track this Thursday.
After years of blocking resolutions to encourage access to clean needles to protect drug users from HIV, the Obama administration made a break with the past.
After years of blocking him from a leadership position, Mr. Paul's fellow Republicans have named him chairman of the House subcommittee on domestic monetary policy, which oversees the Federal Reserve as well as the currency and the valuation of the dollar.
The Cabinet Office fought for three years to block the release of the document, which reveals how Charles is on the "standard circulation" list for cabinet memoranda.
After two years of Labor blocking his legislation in the Senate Menzies called a double dissolution over a banking bill.
It argues in its court filings that the F.C.C. has documented only four examples, over six years, of purported blocking of Internet content by service providers.
His years of bill blocking earned him the nickname Dr. No. Now that the debt limit negotiations between the White House and Republican lawmakers have collapsed, however, Mr. Coburn suddenly seems more like Dr. Probably.
Using ten years of mid-block crash data on urban arterials and collectors from four cities in Nebraska, crash modification factors (CMFs) were estimated for various lane widths and crash types.
After years of quietly blocking key U.S. social media sites, China has become more proactive in setting forth a vision for the Internet, one in which countries mutually respect each other's "sovereignty" over Internet matters.
