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Whichever candidate wins in June, our task will be the same: to keep America safe, and to consolidate the gains for peace and freedom made possible by the cold war's end. That is what President Clinton has sought to do with bipartisan support since 1993. As a result, every American is more secure. Consider the facts...
...there are new articles about how angry they are and how they are going to retaliate." Last week's multi-billion tit- for-tat tariffs threatened an all-out trade war between the two nations. Whether renewing MFN brings them back from the brink, it will likely face bipartisan resistance in Congress, where members of both parties oppose granting MFN due to China's human rights abuses, trade piracy and sales of nuclear materials. the right to marry a person of the same sex Josh Dubow
When Bob Dole said last week that the government should get out of the housing business and give poor people vouchers instead, you might have thought this idea was on its way to becoming bipartisan reality. After all, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros had already proposed that the nation's 3 million public-housing residents be given vouchers to spend where they please on rent. And how could Dole's fellow free-market Republicans object to housing vouchers--a system that relies on the market, not government, to determine how and where poor people live, a system first...
...successfully running for Congress in 1984 as a political amateur against a popular incumbent. After a rocky start (he tried bunking in the House gym to save money until he was ejected by Speaker Tip O'Neill), Armey first showed talent as a legislator in 1987 when he won bipartisan support for a bill establishing an independent commission to recommend military bases for closing. He rose so rapidly through his party's ranks that after the 1994 elections, he ran unopposed for the job of majority leader. But he continued to show a defiant streak, sometimes to the point...
...survivor. In any event, the '60s have proved to be just as difficult to eliminate as Rasputin was. Or, to be bipartisan, as hard to dispose of as Richard Nixon, who went down into the frozen river a hundred times during his career and always bobbed back. Nixon and the '60s, though they hated each other, were each driven by a fierce relentlessness. Nixon finally died...