In politics, gridlock refers to difficulty of passing party agenda items in a legislature that is close to being evenly divided. The political agenda is a set of issues and policies laid out by either the executive or cabinet in government which tries to dictate existing and near-future political news A legislature is a type of representative Deliberative assembly with the power to create amend and change Laws The law created by a legislature is called Legislation In United States politics, this situation most frequently occurs when the House of Representatives and the Senate are controlled by opposing parties. Politics of the United States takes place in the framework of a presidential, Federal republic where the President of the United States (the Head of The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives

See also: United States presidents and control of congress

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