Word: bipartisanism
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...colleges, hospitals and corporations, but only to particular programs. Thus a university laboratory that received federal research grants could not discriminate, but the same university's history department that got no cash from Washington could. Legislators howled that the court was misinterpreting the intent of Congress, and began a bipartisan effort to make that intent unmistakable: if any part of an institution gets federal money, no part can discriminate...
Ralph Neas, executive director of the 185-group Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, called the votes "a bipartisan reaffirmation of civil rights and a bipartisan repudiation of the civil rights extremism of the Reagan-Bush administration. It was a great victory for civil rights and for the nation...
...Washington, the focus turned to a renewed debate over U.S. aid to the Contras. The Reagan administration indicated support for a new $48 million proposal advanced by a bipartisan group of senators...
...Soviets. His first order of domestic business would be to confront the Government's financial tangle. Bush insists repeatedly that he would not raise taxes to cut the deficit, and whether he believes that or not, he could be boxed in by his own rhetoric. Yet a newly appointed bipartisan National Economic Commission is studying ways to reduce the deficit. If the commission recommends a tax increase, Bush will have to decide whether to stick by his campaign rhetoric...
...notables in both parties, from Senate Majority Leader Bob Byrd to Treasury Secretary James Baker to Newspaper Columnist Robert Novak. Says George Christian, press secretary in Lyndon Johnson's White House: "One of Strauss's many strengths is that although he's a good Democrat, he can also be bipartisan when the situation requires it." Perhaps Speaker Wright had something like that in mind when he offered this toast to Strauss at a recent private dinner: "It's an honor to have with us a close friend of the next President of the United States -- whoever the hell...