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Weld also emphasized his skills as a coalition-builder, citing examples of bipartisan cooperation with the likes of former senator Paul E. Tsongas and Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), who opposes Kassebaum's FDA reform proposal...
...least, President Clinton has been spared this burden. He is the first elected Democrat since F.D.R. not to face a serious primary challenge. Nor have Democrats taken up the charge that Clinton is ethically challenged. In sharp contrast to the bipartisan outrage over Watergate and Iran-contra, the Whitewater hearings broke down completely along partisan lines. This may help explain why most voters seem to be treating the affair as too embroiled in political wrangling to affect their votes in November. But that is also why the FBI files story has at least the potential to cause real political damage...
Childhood is when we learn the morals that guide our lives. A concerted bipartisan effort to focus on children's issues would eliminate most of the inane haggling that now goes on. It is not a Republican or Democratic issue; it's a national one. If we don't teach morals to our children, we will soon become a nation without morals. DAVID L. KUTZ San Francisco...
...Senate minority leader, asked Kerrey to head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (D.S.C.C.), it was a downright curious choice. The job, which is to raise money for Democratic senatorial candidates, is usually reserved for a partisan loyalist. Kerrey, the only Medal of Honor winner in the Senate, was resolutely bipartisan and a conspicuous Democratic holdout on the President's 1993 budget. Daschle confesses, "I didn't know what to expect." Kerrey himself was divided (nothing unusual there): he was Bob Kerrey, Nebraska Maverick, not Bob Kerrey, Party Guy. But the situation was grim. The Republicans already...
From the start, we have had no illusions that Russia could become overnight a fully democratic, stable and prosperous nation or that success is ultimately assured. But that uncertainty is an argument for steadiness--in a policy that has already strengthened America's security and that deserves continued bipartisan support...