Word: bipartisanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The House voted against an amendment that would require the government to develop a more counterfeit-resistant Social Security card. On a narrow 221-191 vote, the House killed the measure which would have been added to a new bill designed to overhaul U.S. immigration laws. A bipartisan group opposed the GOP-sponsored amendment, claiming it could lead to the imposition of a national identity card that would compile personal information on every U.S. citizen. "While I strongly support appropriate measures to curb illegal immigration in employment, I must oppose any proposals that would change the issuance...
...about whether or not we can make fundamental change." And what is that change? Balancing the budget, he said, not mentioning that it is something everyone now embraces, including the man who already lives in the White House. "Turning power back to the states," which falls in the same bipartisan category. Even his syntax gave him away: Dole spoke in the past tense, giving what sounded like a concession speech. "I've tried to do the right thing," he said...
...socialism's benefits without socialism's cost. So it is yet another example of America's hunger for the free lunch. And it is a free lunch of a particularly modish sort--the free lunch of moderation. Kassebaum-Kennedy is everything people claim to hunger for in public policy: bipartisan, high-minded, incremental, nonideological. Kennedy has said, "There will be those who say [this bill] goes too far in some areas--and there will be those who say it does not go far enough." This might be called the Baby Bear approach to policymaking...
...good year for Governors in America, and last week was their best yet. The National Governors' Association arrived in Washington on Feb. 3, and within days it had managed what Bill Clinton and the Congress could not. Last Tuesday, in a unanimous and bipartisan vote, the Governors passed a six-page policy outline on both welfare and Medicaid reform. The Medicaid scheme leaned in the Administration's direction, maintaining some federally mandated health guarantees for the disabled, pregnant women, the elderly and children up to age 12. The welfare outline was closer to what Congress wants: states would get their...
...vote--but the requester has the right to remain anonymous. Increasingly, holds are used to stall legislation or nominations that otherwise would easily pass. And in the Senate, delay can be fatal. The insurance bill, which seeks to reform allegedly unfair industry practices, boasted an almost evenly bipartisan list of 44 co-sponsors. But when chief sponsors Republican Nancy Kassebaum and Democrat Ted Kennedy started making inquiries last September about scheduling a floor vote, majority leader Bob Dole informed them that someone had placed a hold on the bill...