Word: bipartisanism
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...former Boston Globe national editor Kenneth J. Cooper will host a study group entitled “Black and Brown Together Forever? Black Latino Coalition Politics in the 21st century.” And former 9/11 Commission spokesman Alvin S. Felzenberg will examine “the possibilities of bipartisan cooperation at a time of great political division in our country.” Although they are excited about conducting their study groups, all the fellows also expressed interest in concurrently taking a variety of classes at the College. “I’m going...
...Verba, who is also the Pforzheimer University Professor of Government, said he thought the Patriot Act compromises seemed to be more an example of bipartisan political posturing than a substantive reworking of the issues at hand...
Congress has already temporarily extended the legislation twice in order to allow time for a bipartisan group of senators who have blocked the passage of the act to negotiate with the Bush administration about the library provisions and other measures that have sparked concern...
...liberals want the formerly feisty antiwar candidate to be the standard bearer for their causes, Democrats in Washington want him to take on Bush, African Americans want the only black Senator to speak out on racial issues, and moderates and Republicans like McCain want to see Obama's bipartisan side. It's a complicated balance, particularly for a man who would need the support of all those disparate groups to become President--a possibility he already has his eye on. "People have enormous expectations of him," says David Axelrod, one of Obama's top advisers. "And to live...
Republicans have also embraced Obama, realizing that any legislation he co-sponsors will automatically get more attention because of his fame. Obama was able to get more done last year than his junior status would normally allow. He joined a bipartisan effort on avian flu that resulted in several billion dollars of funding to prepare for a possible outbreak. He helped get funding for veterans' health care increased $1.5 billion. The main G.O.P. worry is that Obama's political future may be too promising--that he would be hard to beat as a presidential contender...