The legislation needed to reflect that agreement languished for months.

Yet this legislation has been languishing in our committee.

Yet such legislation has languished for six or seven years, and seems unlikely to pass this year.

Such legislation has languished in Congress for several years.

It was at times lonely in the minority, she said, watching proposed legislation languish.

This legislation languished before the full legislature, during a particularly gridlocked session, and was placed on the back burner, pending resolution of "more pressing" legislation.

But after just an hour of debate, communication between Democrats and Republicans broke down, leaving the two sides arguing over rules tonight while the legislation languished.

The legislation, however, has languished in the Democratic-led Assembly.

The legislation, however, has languished in committee since Mrs. Whitman tucked it away there last June.

But the controversial legislation languished on Capitol Hill until well after his retirement.