Word: bipartisanism
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...Governor of Delaware, Castle joined then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton to rewrite the federal welfare law. He took his bipartisan legacy with him to Congress, where, as chair of the influential Domestic and International Monetary Policy Subcommittee, he sponsored a proposal to break the balanced-budget stalemate earlier this year...
...doesn't take his incumbency for granted--he left his party's convention early to campaign in his home state--and in the Senate he's active on four committees. Having shaken the most radical of his liberal urges, Harkin was a co-author of the first bipartisan welfare-reform bill in Congress. But in a state with the largest percentage of citizens over age 85, and the third largest over 65, he promises to protect Medicare...
...political scene. She has taken heat for $20 million in losses from the state's Municipal Investment Pool, but she has also taken aim at opponent Pat Roberts, calling him a career politician who hasn't lived in Kansas in 30 years. Thompson styles herself as a "moderate, independent bipartisan problem solver," much like retiring Senator Nancy Kassebaum, whom she would replace...
Cardin emerged as something of a political prodigy in 1966, when he was elected to the Maryland House at age 23. His restrained personal manner is offset by his intensity as a legislator: he co-sponsored the 1995 Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Bill and supported bills to cap medical-malpractice damages, increase the tobacco tax and deny welfare to children of illegal immigrants as part of the controversial Immigration Reform Bill...
Though in general liberal, Levin--who with his brother Congressman Sander Levin of the 12th District makes the only sibling pair in Congress--has supported bipartisan legislation and occasionally votes with conservatives. He voted for the new welfare-reform bill and has worked on congressional reform as well, helping write a bill to require more reporting of lobbying activity...