logjam

tukkisuma

umpikuja An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts.
puhekieltä A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.

Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam.

A step forward for the minimum wage increase this afternoon, as the Senate cleared the logjam of the Republican filibuster. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/1/30/13150/5672