sausagemaking

alternative sausage making · alternative sausage-making

1. uncountableThe manufacture of sausages.
2. uncountableby analogyLawmaking.

   A freshman governor with little tolerance for legislative sausagemaking and a love for press conferences.

   2004, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service

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   In a complex process of legislative “sausagemaking,” legislative leaders assembled a bipartisan supermajority to win passage of this major reform.

   2010, William B. Rouse, Denis A. Cortese, Engineering the System of Healthcare Delivery, →ISBN, page 455

   And White House officials admit they underestimated how ugly Capitol Hill's sausagemaking process would look in the spotlight, turning a debate about expanding health coverage, controlling costs and reining in the abuses of profit-obsessed insurers into a brawl over "death panels," taxpayer-funded abortions and congressional giveaways to Nebraska.

   2010, Time - Volume 175, Issues 1-12, page 30