logrolling

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Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boats and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung.

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  1. noun The exchanging of political favors, especially the trading of influence or votes among legislators to achieve passage of projects that are of interest to one another.
  2. noun The exchanging of favors or praise, as among artists, critics, or academics.
  3. noun See birling.

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  • This is the flipside of the 50 percent logrolling. —  The Hardball Times
  • In addition, logrolling, which has characterized most recent congressional energy legislation, helps to illustrate how seemingly disparate energy issues have become connected in national energy policy and how national energy policy has been largely unsatisfactory and unstable across time. —  Legal Theory Blog
  • Obama is engaged in shameless fiscal logrolling, hoping to pick up Republicans by devoting roughly 40 percent of his plan to tax cuts. —  National Review Online
  • The topic is the political sniping in Washington over the War on Terror, but the upshot is a lot of logrolling about how brilliant NBC's correspondents are. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • People complain that the 51-year-old Harvard and Columbia Law School grad and author is not a glib, professional pol who knows how to artfully market herself, and is someone who hasn't spent her life glad-handing, backstabbing and logrolling. —  News & Record Article Feed
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  1. From the early American practice of neighbors gathering to help clear land by rolling off and burning felled timber.
 

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