Word: bipartisanism
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...WHERE THINGS STAND In 2004 the Supreme Court rejected the Administration's argument of Executive authority and gave enemy combatants held at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the right to contest their incarceration in federal court. But a bipartisan bill approved by Congress last month and now before the President will deny foreign terrorism suspects the right to challenge the conditions of their detention in federal court, which some experts say will effectively overturn the Supreme Court ruling...
...abused. According to Casey, the revised version of the Patriot Act that Congress debated in December addressed some of the worries that had been voiced over these measures. The revised legislation, for instance, stipulates an NSL recipient’s explicit right to consult with an attorney. But a bipartisan group of senators argued that the legislation did not adequately respond to civil-liberties concerns, and, threatening a filibuster, they were able to block the renewal of the Patriot Act on Dec. 16. Political tensions were high. President Bush said that senators who voted against the renewal of the Patriot...
...returned to New Orleans together earlier this month, handing out $90 million in reconstruction funds to local colleges and universities; block grants to the Governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama; and at the suggestion of Bush 43, funds to help reopen churches and faith-based institutions. They created a bipartisan board to oversee the Katrina donations and vowed to put out a report later this month explaining how they spent their tsunami funds. (One project: buying new fiber-glass boats for fishermen who lost their vessels in the storm.) There's talk of a Clinton visit to Bush's College...
...real office space and hired lobbyists--Tom Sheridan, a Democrat who had been a star of the domestic AIDS lobby, and Scott Hatch, a former Tom DeLay aide who ran the National Republican Campaign Committee. DATA employees churned out policy papers, while Hatch, Sheridan and Shriver organized intimate, bipartisan dinner parties (sample guest list: Senators Jesse Helms, Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch; former World Bank president Jim Wolfensohn; Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers) to cement relationships and encourage the sense that at least on one issue, everyone could break bread. Spouses were invited, and to spice things up, Bono might...
...attempt to force the renewal of the U.S.A. Patriot Act to a final vote in the Senate Friday failed because of bipartisan concern about civil liberties violations. Of particular concern was the ability of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to demand patron information from libraries and other organizations, a capacity that has generated concern in the Harvard community in recent years. With several provisions of the original act due to expire on Dec. 31, the situation in the Senate is tense and uncertain, Associate Professor of Government Barry C. Burden said, especially since Congress has usually adjourned...