Word: obstruction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that started after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985. The powers of the parliament have been so watered down in the new constitution that it is virtually impossible for Deputies to remove Yeltsin from office. But a solid Yeltsin opposition with a majority in the new parliament could obstruct government-reform policies. The result would be a return to the debilitating power struggle that triggered Yeltsin's dramatic 1993 showdown with the old parliament...
WHEN THE OLD SOUTHERN RACISTS FILIBUSTERED A civil rights bill, they would serve up fatback inanities to an almost empty Senate chamber--homily grits to obstruct the hours...
Though such tidbits made for both titillating and amusing reading, McConnell made clear that in his view, the most serious charge was that Packwood attempted to obstruct the investigation by "deliberately altering and destroying relevant portions of his diaries." He told reporters that the obstruction charge would be referred to the Justice Department and that, if found guilty of obstruction, Pack wood could face a prison sentence of up to 16 months. Justice officials confirmed that they plan to launch an investigation but warned that the case was hardly open and shut, since they would have to prove that Packwood...
There were dueling Whitewater hearings on Capitol Hill. Federal bank investigator L. Jean Lewis told a House panel that government higher-ups engaged in a "concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate" her investigation of alleged wrongdoing at the S&L that is at the heart of the Whitewater case. At the Senate hearings, former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum adamantly told skeptical Senators that his controversial search of the late Vincent Foster's files was but one of the many "right calls" he made to protect legitimate confidences and was not a Whitewater cover...
...member after another angrily protested the proceedings today, three federal regulators charged that top government officials repeatedly thwarted their attempts to investigate the failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' Whitewater business partner. Resolution Trust Corp. investigator Jean Lewis said she believed "there was a concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate the results of our investigation."TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that despite "the televised pandemonium, the real impact of the hearings so far is in the thousands of documents Leach is dropping on the assembled press corps." In one of the documents, Hillary Clinton says: "If Reaganomics works...