Word: bipartisanism
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Trade is becoming freer -- surely Congress will eventually pass NAFTA, as Presidents Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon have all, in a remarkable display of bipartisan good sense, been urging...
Unfortunately, we, as America's young generation inheriting the debt, are politically underrepresented. We have no AARP lobbying day and night for our interests in Washington D.C. All we have, essentially, is an organization called Lead or Leave led by a bipartisan advisory board of courageous politicians and academics from Paul Tsongas to William Weld to Ben Friedman...
Successful health care reform is pivotal to keeping deficit reduction on track. This will require bipartisan efforts either to accept Clinton's plan in a modified version or to adopt an altered Republican version. Without health care reform, no meaningful deficit reduction will ultimately be accomplished...
...Several are echoed by the most thorough alternative plans, including one proposed last week by 22 Republican Senators and nearly identical bills likely to be introduced this week by two Democrats, Tennessee Representative Jim Cooper and Louisiana Senator John Breaux. Some amalgam of these proposals could become the principal bipartisan alternative to Clinton's plan...
...have made a sort of mantra out of the contention that their plan is "not graven in stone." On the opposite side, the great majority of critics are taking an approach of "We know fundamental reform is necessary, but . . ." After the venomous partisanship of the budget fight, and the bipartisan venom of the battle now being joined over the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation just might be in for a rare treat: a statesmanlike debate on a weighty problem, focusing on substance and conducted in tones of gravity and civility. Well, at least one can hope...