Word: bipartisanism
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That long night's journey into day would prove metaphorical for Packwood. The Senator arose Thursday morning still thinking he had a chance of facing down the Senate Ethics Committee's unanimous, bipartisan call for his expulsion. He took to the airwaves, decrying the charges against him of sexual and official misconduct and vowing that his decision to fight on was irrevocable. But then certain lights came on. At 12:30 p.m. Packwood slipped into his second-floor hideaway in the Capitol Building to confer with two of his staunchest defenders, Republican Senators Alan Simpson of Wyoming and John McCain...
President Clinton's own version of a balanced budget calls for $128 billion of Medicare savings in the first seven years. So there is now bipartisan agreement that Medicare will be trimmed. The only questions are how much to trim...
...election. Whichever way he--and they--goes will determine who wins the White House in 1996. The proof of this will come later this week when the entire G.O.P. presidential field (from Bob Dole to Illinois businessman Maurice Taylor), the Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate, a bipartisan mishmash of Washington politicians, even Jesse Jackson, converge in Dallas for an unprecedented three-day pander-ama. Each, in his way, hopes Perot will be all ears...
...rare bipartisan repudiation of a President's foreign policy, the Senate voted 69 to 29 to end American participation in the U.N. embargo on arms to Bosnia. The rationale: to help the Muslim government fend off the savage onslaughts of the Bosnian Serbs. President Clinton vowed to veto the measure if it also passes the House; he claims that lifting the embargo would, among other things, increase the chances of injecting U.S. troops into the conflict. In the short term, however, the bill's impact is more likely to be political: it's qualified in such a way that...
...bipartisan group of senators may quietly succeed, if only incrementally, where President Clinton's frontal assault on the health-care system failed. The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee today passed health insurances changes that would make it easier for millions of Americans to keep health insurance coverage when they switch jobs or get sick -- one of Clinton's central reform goals. Under the Health Insurance Reform Act, which should reach the Senate floor this fall, no one who continues to pay insurance premiums can be excluded for health reasons or saddled with a new waiting period simply because...