Word: bipartisanism
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...plan appeals to conservatives by shunning the Clinton requirement that all employers pay 80% of workers' health premiums. It appeases moderates by trimming employers' tax deductions on premiums. And it mollifies free marketeers by doing away with Clinton's proposed caps on insurance premiums. "We're the only bipartisan approach," Cooper maintains. "We're true to managed competition...
...have to rely increasingly on center-right groupings of conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans. NAFTA aside, however, those alliances have been more inclined to oppose the President than to back him. Examples: a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget that the Administration vehemently opposes has important Democratic sponsorship, and bipartisan support has formed behind a health-care reform bill that Clinton dislikes but that has been introduced in the Senate by -- guess who? -- Breaux...
After the Administration and its allies in Congress made a tremendous effort to defeat the measure, the House narrowly voted down a bipartisan bill crafted by younger members who sought new budget cuts of $90 billion over five years...
...system he perpetuated has continued until the present, where Rollins' "curiously reformist" remarks are just a public statement of privately acknowledged fact. Instead of investigating, prosecuting and "re-run"-ing affairs in New Jersey, Safire endorses "a few good reporters, preferably Black and street-smart, to lay out this bipartisan system for all to marvel...
...Although the sexual-harassment charges under investigation by the committee carry no threat of criminal prosecution, - the same cannot be said for the allegations surrounding his possible misuse of office. Last week Packwood denied ever wrongfully soliciting work for his ex- wife, but the six members of the bipartisan committee seem bent on investigating and reaching their own conclusion...