A candidate can explain his positions in minute detail and wind up governing with a hostile Congress that refuses to let him deliver.

There is very little that any president facing a hostile Congress can do to change the course of domestic events in his last months in office.

The President has spent the last year facing an increasingly hostile Congress.

He has spelled out his vision for the nation without proposing action that could be defeated by a hostile Congress.

But Amtrak, its financing subject to the vicissitudes of a hostile Congress, backed away from the deal.

He faces a hostile Congress and a president weakened by an unpopular war.

But a bill before the Senate would shift the power of certification to a hostile Congress.

But this was not really a speech about getting laws enacted by a hostile Congress.

The money may not make it through a hostile Congress.

President Reagan isn't about to get much more from a hostile Congress, and probably doesn't have the votes to sustain a veto.