The likely legislative stalemate is compounded by uncertainty in the executive branch.

The legislative stalemate over this act created a public crisis, and on 25 August 1975, the emir dissolved the Assembly.

Technically, however, the vote tonight could break the legislative stalemate if parliamentary authorities agree to quash opposition in the House of Lords.

A major problem for both their self-image and their public image is legislative stalemate.

Following a decade of legislative stalemate, the bill is intended to reduce acid rain, urban smog and toxic chemicals in the air.

But by the end of the 1990s, late budgets and legislative stalemates became the norm in Albany.

After years of legislative stalemate, legislation was finally approved in 1996.

When impeachment came, after long months of legislative stalemate and partisan struggle over how to rebuild the Union, it came swiftly.

In that fight, the various financial services interests threw money at politicians for years, producing legislative stalemate and fat campaign treasuries.

Unhappiness with legislative stalemate and unsolved national problems seems to focus on Congress.