The last decade has seen "our long journey back," with much time spent "breaking out of our own bureaucratic gridlock" while learning "some humbling lessons."

Mr. Gonzalez acknowledged that many aspiring immigrants encountered "dingy buildings, rude employees" and bureaucratic gridlock when they approached the agency now.

First there was the highway bridge that collapsed in 1982, leaving months of messy traffic problems, compounded by bureaucratic gridlock, in its wake.

Otherwise bureaucratic gridlock will block any new strategy, and foreign policy will consist mainly of improvisations.

The board has never made professional accountability a priority and must be held responsible for the bureaucratic gridlock.

Their new offices in the incomplete new building are empty, kept that way since 1985 by a persistent if little-publicized case of bureaucratic gridlock in Washington.

What is the point of racing around Washington grabbing Federal dollars for New York City if bureaucratic gridlock prevents the city from using the money?

To help break this bureaucratic gridlock, we are establishing the Northeast Gas Congressional Caucus.

Its members of Congress are frustrated by the bureaucratic gridlock that has prevented the city from using the money.

I agree that they ought to do penance, but this only leads to bureaucratic gridlock!