Word: bipartisanism
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Democratic Presidential candidate George S. McGovern called for a bipartisan effort to end hunger in America in a speech before a crowd of about 100 yesterday at the School of Public Health...
...Waxman bill--or something like it--probably provides the best hope for a bipartisan acid rain plan. It wisely minimizes conflict between regions and interest groups by fairly spreading the burden of reducing sulfur-dioxide emissions...
...some point the national interest must be accepted by our public as clearly recognizable and constant. Otherwise, we shall become a source of dangerous instability, still relevant for our power but irrelevant for our ideas. A presidential election year is probably not an ideal time to forge a bipartisan consensus. But whoever wins the presidential election faces no more important and urgent challenge than to restore the element of bipartisanship to our foreign policy...
...directive a threat to constitutional rights. Correctly. Nor did top political aides at the White House, who undoubtedly account for more sensitive leaks than lower-level bureaucrats, relish the thought of facing polygraph straps and lifetime censorship. Last week the President backed down, suspending the controversial provisions until a "bipartisan solution" to the problem of safeguarding classified information can be worked out in Congress. Orwell's worries about 1984 apparently failed to take into account that it was an election year...
...game got under way last week as a bipartisan group of congressional leaders accepted an invitation to meet with Administration officials and start negotiations to fashion a $100 billion "down payment" deficit-reduction plan. Expectations for quick success were not high, partly because Reagan was far from the fray, at his California ranch. Complained Democratic Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan: "Here they are meeting, and the President is out of town on vacation. Unless he becomes more actively involved in the discussions, there will be a growing perception that the whole effort is not real...