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Article: Between Gulf War and Political Sniping, Legislative Casualties; 102nd Congress Often Was Thwarted
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- The Washington Post
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- October 11, 1992
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The 102nd Congress, which opened with authorization of a swift
and victorious war in the Persian Gulf, wound up mired in the
trenches of a bitter, inconclusive, mutually destructive political
war with President Bush over the nation's domestic agenda.
When the final gavel fell Friday, Congress left behind one of
the thinnest records of legislative achievement within memory,
attributable both to partisan strife on Capitol Hill and to veto
confrontations with Bush.
Over the two-year life of the 102nd Congress, lawmakers brought
a heavy load of legislation on a wide variety of issues to the verge
of enactment, only to be thwarted by Republican filibusters in the