Word: bipartisanism
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...idea of direct loans has been around for afew years but only got the push it needed fromlast years' federal budget cuts, which forced asearch for savings in existing programs. Kennedytook the initiative to broaden the plan and forgea bipartisan coalition in support of it, Hickssays...
...legislators also have demands in store. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee proposed bipartisan legislation requiring high-access intelligence employees to provide full financial-disclosu re statements, and for the CIA to expand its use of polygraph tests. Democrat Robert Torricelli, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, promised, "Heads will roll...
...metaphors, the anti-Radcliffe as the final club men can't join, shouting "hey hey ho ho / Radcliffe has got to go," and then points to the statement of a Peninsula editor, describing Radcliffe as the road block to women's full membership at Harvard, in support of its bipartisan appeal...
...Patrick is an outstanding lawyer with sound judgment and broad experience with the civil rights laws," Kennedy said. "I am confident that he will be swiftly confirmed with broad bipartisan support...
...plan could stall completely unless Moynihan's worries about the "collateral consequences" are addressed. Inexplicably, Moynihan and Ira Magaziner, the Administration's health-care guru, have yet to talk about employer mandates. "We want to get everything in order first," says a White House aide, who predicts the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office will "shortly endorse our financing assumptions" -- an optimism other Administration officials don't share. The problem, says Moynihan, is that "anyone who thinks ((the Clinton plan)) can work in the real world as presently written isn't living...