log-rolling

Hawley, presided over what was an unbridled frenzy of log-rolling, with Members jockeying to insure the maximum protection for their constituent producers.

Don Bonker: Is Congress About to Cause Another Great Depression? Don Bonker 2011

Hawley, presided over what was an unbridled frenzy of log-rolling, with Members jockeying to insure the maximum protection for their constituent producers.

Don Bonker: Is Congress About to Cause Another Great Depression? Don Bonker 2011

And I think the other meaning is people who are the products of clandestine networks, you know, people who go to Ivy League Schools, people who are the products of extremes of influence, of log-rolling.

Decoding 2010 Political Attack Buzzwords 2010

Hawley, presided over what was an unbridled frenzy of log-rolling, with Members jockeying to insure the maximum protection for their constituent producers.

Don Bonker: Is Congress About to Cause Another Great Depression? Don Bonker 2011

I am thinking either log-rolling, or pairs bungee jumping if we are sticking with the whole "escaping the jaws of death" motif.

On the blueline: One game to go, vs. Canada, gold at stake 2010

And I think the other meaning is people who are the products of clandestine networks, you know, people who go to Ivy League Schools, people who are the products of extremes of influence, of log-rolling.

Decoding 2010 Political Attack Buzzwords 2010

Nepotism, log-rolling and use of the casting couch is rife.

In praise of … conductors | Editorial 2011

Associated Press House Republican Leader John Boehner Mr. Boehner also proposed to break spending bills into smaller bills for each federal agency or function rather than piling education with health care, for example, into a giant log-rolling exercise.

The Soul of the Spending Machine 2010

Investment skyrocketed and London surged back to world financial leadership as Thatcher broke up the little log-rolling, back-scratching association of accepting houses merchant banks at the feet of the governor of the Bank of England.

Notable & Quotable 2012

In other words, just the usual horse-trading, log-rolling and back-scratching.

Matthew Yglesias » Cutting the Stimulus 2009