Word: bipartisanism
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...former Senator, Ashcroft is well aware that in 1995, in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, bipartisan antiterrorism proposals much like the ones he just introduced were defeated in the House by Barr and Michigan's John Conyers Jr., the liberals' liberal. It was a strange-bedfellows alliance that has come back to life. This time, more than 150 organizations from left and right have organized an umbrella group, In Defense of Freedom, that may be the first umbrella that Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum has ever shared with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. As head...
...Friday morning after the attacks, congressional leaders had drafted a bipartisan "resolution of resolve" expressing support for any anti-terrorist military strike ordered by President Bush. The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate also approved a $40 billion relief package last week, doubling the amount President Bush intially asked for. Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense, told reporters he did not know exactly how the money would be distributed, but that military readiness and national security were top priorities. The administration has also pledged to provide assistance to the families of firefighters, police officers and other government workers killed...
...Capitol Hill, a bipartisan congressional panel has drafted a resolution designed to "deter and prevent future terrorist attacks." Congress has also approved a $40 billion anti-terrorism relief package. Those funds will be used to increase security and to help families of firefighters, police officers and military personnel lost during the rescue efforts...
...hour and a half later these men would join their colleagues in a bipartisan lunch for Democratic and Republican members - the first, besides the traditional inaugural lunch, that anyone could remember ever being held in the Congress's modern history. But for the moment, the leaders of both parties were meeting privately to make the first tentative decisions about how Congress should proceed if the country must...
...hour and a half later these men would join their colleagues in a bipartisan lunch for Democratic and Republican members - the first, besides the traditional inaugural lunch, that anyone could remember ever being held in the Congress's modern history. But for the moment, the leaders of both parties were meeting privately to make the first tentative decisions about how Congress should proceed if the country must...