Word: bipartisanism
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...bipartisan group of nine U.S. Senators, after meeting for nine months behind closed doors, is nearing an agreement on the broad strokes of a health-care-reform bill. The so-called Gang of Nine - though its number expands and contracts depending on the meeting - is hammering out the finer points as they prepare to enter the drafting phase of the negotiations, sources from three Senate offices involved in the talks told TIME...
...home or go to college. This is the type of vivid pro-growth, pro-savings and pro-investment strategy that's needed to create jobs and restore stability to the financial markets. If President Obama used these 12 solutions as the basis for his 2010 budget, it would enjoy bipartisan support and set America on the path to recovery...
...desperate mental contortionism employed here to slander Jindal’s bipartisan critics evokes the illogic used during the 2008 presidential election by a cavalcade of left-wing commentators, including Slate’s John Dickerson, The Kansas City Star’s Lewis Diuguid, and author David Shipler. These pundits claimed that nearly every criticism aimed at Obama was a Machiavellian ploy, using subtle wordplay to remind white voters of his blackness—even if this criticism did not reference race...
...economic stimulus and $410 billion in an earmark-packed spending package for fiscal 2009 that Congress passed on Tuesday. Dizzy? A little nauseous? So are the moderate Democrats in Congress who are usually the gatekeepers of the federal piggy bank - the same fiscal conservatives who helped lead the bipartisan coalition in the Senate that held up and scaled down the Administration's stimulus plan...
...federal restrictions. They now intend to seek federal support for the project, he said. Kevin Casey, the University’s chief lobbyist, said that Harvard has long called for such a decision, both individually and in concert with the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, a national bipartisan research advocacy group. And the timing of the announcement may allow Harvard researchers to apply for federal funding to support embryonic stem cell research, Casey said. “With the stimulus bill legislation, it would have been a shame to miss that opportunity for embryonic stem cell research...