Word: bipartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under attack by medical lobbies and opposed by most Republican and many Democratic Senators, the Kennedy Administration's King-Anderson bill to provide hospital care for the aged under social security has disappeared from view. In its place last week appeared a bipartisan compromise disguised in the legislative equivalent of a newly donned jacket and a different style of hairsplitting. But though the disguise failed to alarm King-Anderson's friends, it also failed to fool its opponents-even if the clothes were a bit more conservative...
...West, the course of the cold war, and the growth of our nation for a generation or more to come." All the living ex-Presidents-Republicans Hoover and Eisenhower as well as Democrat Truman-came out for its passage. The Committee for a National Trade Policy, a bipartisan business group, strove to convince the nation of the bill's importance...
...Charles B. Shuman: The outcome was a victory for "farmers, consumers and taxpayers," and for "constitutional government" too. "The American people should know the extent to which the executive branch of Government sought to bully or buy votes with political pressure. It's reassuring to know that a bipartisan majority of the House was able and willing to resist this shameful interference with the legislative process...
Under construction since 1958, Washington's new $70 million House office building will not be ready for its congressional tenants until 1964, but it already has an honored name. Whisked through Congress with the sort of bipartisan speed that would have pleased him was a resolution naming the edifice after the late Sam Rayburn, the man who served longer as Speaker-17 years-than any other. By the same resolution, two nearby House office buildings will now be known after a couple of Mister Sam's Republican predecessors-one, built in 1908, for iron-willed Joseph Gurney ("Uncle...
...bipartisan consensus in foreign has produced half-truths, confused and contradictory policy," declared. He charged that major parties go down the line the same old saws and conventional truths," and said he is running as independent "to challenge them in the own state...