Word: bipartisanism
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...Reagan initiated what he called a "national crusade" against drug abuse. Nancy Reagan, one of the most prominent crusaders in the cause, began stepping up her "Just Say No" campaign. It was the hot issue of the season: amid heavy media coverage and enthusiastic public fanfare, Congress provided overwhelming bipartisan support for tough new antidrug legislation. Eight days before the election, the President signed a bill raising federal drug-fighting funding by $1.6 billion, to $3.9 billion, proudly proclaiming that the outlay "reflects the total commitment of the American people and their Government to fight the evils of drugs...
LAST WEEK, President Reagan signed a comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform bill which granted amnesty to illegal immigrants who have lived in this country since 1982. The bill promises to end decades of exploitation of illegal immigrants by unscrupulous employers who have capitalized on the aliens' fears of deportation. The new law has been hailed as a triumph by those on almost all sides of the issue...
...must say that I get a kick out of the president campaigning across the country one day attacking Democrats--warning against electing a 'hostile Congress,' and then returning to Washington to sign the bipartisan drug bill, the bipartisan tax bill and the bipartisan immigration bill," O'Neill said...
...SPITE OF a new round of budget tightening and program cutting, the Congress this week approved funding for higher education programs at levels comparable to last year's appropriation. The move received over-whelming bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate and comes in response to pressure from a variety of groups and prominent educators--including Harvard President Derek C. Bok, who trekked to Washington twice last spring to lobby against cuts in student...
...first to warn of the Soviet threat to the U.S. After F.D.R.'s death in 1945, Harriman, then Ambassador to Moscow, hurried home to alert President Truman to what he called the "barbarian invasion of Europe." But like others from Wall Street who formed the core of the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment after the war -- and unlike more recent policymakers -- Harriman was not an ideologue who regarded the Soviets as an implacable "Evil Empire." As a banker and entrepreneur, he believed it was possible to deal with the Soviets the way a businessman might treat a tough competitor: with firmness...