Several times, the session temporarily halted when members of the Senate's Democratic minority mounted the legislative equivalent of a filibuster.

Naming courthouses, post offices and other federal buildings is one of the most routine acts of business Congress conducts - the legislative equivalent of licking stamps.

That would be the legislative equivalent of a slap across the face with a velvet glove.

So the committee, skittish about tainting those cases, spared him the legislative equivalent of a perp walk.

On Friday, after the House had completed its regular business for the week, Mr. Gingrich took the floor and proposed the legislative equivalent of a duel.

I was asked to chair the task force currently engaged in this legislative equivalent of measuring twice, cutting once.

"It's the legislative equivalent of asking an obese person to share their dessert."

A task force of legislators is currently engaged in this legislative equivalent of measuring twice, cutting once.

The problem very often is that they turn into the legislative equivalent of a Venus Flytrap.

The few Democrats who do sometimes support free-trade pacts are waiting to see what they might be offered as the legislative equivalent of the ever-popular swing voters.