For weeks, lawmakers and the administration have struggled to write a law that would provide aid to the insurance industry for any more large attacks.

A final budget deal was held up as lawmakers struggled to agree on exactly how the money would be spent.

As a result, courts and lawmakers across the country are struggling to figure out how to apply employment laws written before flexible work arrangements became so popular.

And in a place that values both its rural serenity and its tourist economy, lawmakers are struggling to strike a balance.

The problem has emerged at a time when lawmakers are struggling to decide which among several competing spending bills they will pass.

Officials and lawmakers in the region have been struggling to regulate the disposal of hospital waste.

But as the weary and frustrated lawmakers struggled toward a close this weekend, days before the midterm elections, governing seemed almost beside the point.

Ordinarily, such a big emergency program would have triggered a budget crisis, as lawmakers struggled to match spending increases with cuts.

Since then, lawmakers had struggled to work out the differences.

For months, lawmakers have been struggling with the prospect of providing new funds for what is widely regarded as the least popular program in Washington.