Word: bipartisanism
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...however, has little interest in selling out. The company's arsenal includes a rare bipartisan alliance of Minnesota leaders, who last week declared their intent to send Davis packing. Said Governor Rudy Perpich: "This will be all-out war as far as the state of Minnesota is concerned." The politicians have already begun drafting measures that would include empowering state officials to veto hostile deals that would cause an adverse economic impact...
...Wright investigation began last June when Republicans, stung by the improprieties of Mike Deaver and Ed Meese, set out to make sleaze a bipartisan issue. As the highest-ranking Democrat, Wright, whose slicked-back hair, caterpillar eyebrows and leering grin give him the look of a wheeler-dealer, was a good target. After revelations of an unusual deal in which a Texas publisher paid Wright 55% royalties -- three or four times the usual rate -- for a collection of the Speaker's speeches and anecdotes, Common Cause and 72 Republicans asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate...
...wars in Central America have never had much in common except for the angst they give the U.S. And so it was not really surprising that the same week that saw a daunting shift to the right in El Salvador also brought forth the first bipartisan U.S. policy toward Nicaragua this decade. The Bush Administration seems unsure how to manage the collapse of the long U.S. effort to build a strong centrist government in El Salvador. But it has accomplished a sharp break with the Reaganite past in cementing an accord with the Democratic Congress to wind down the futile...
...among the powerful in Congress is what allows Tower to so adroitly muddy the waters surrounding his own ethical problems. The everybody-does-it defense may be cynical, but it has persuasive power, as long as Congress continues to confuse honor with honorariums. Ethics in government should be a bipartisan concern, not merely the responsibility of the Bush Administration. If the White House has fallen short of the standards it set during its much ballyhooed "ethics week," so too has the Democratic Congress been unwilling to judge itself by the criteria it sets for others...
...budget speech on Thursday night, Bush called on Congress to approve his proposal within 45 days. "We must not let this situation fester," he said. "Any plan to refinance the system must be accompanied by major reform." For the most part, his proposal found bipartisan support. Said Iowa Republican Jim Leach, a member of the House Banking Committee: "In his first inning, Bush has stepped up and hit a home run." Another member of the committee, New York Democrat Charles Schumer, said that Bush deserves "a heck of a lot of credit for bellying up to the bar and putting...