Word: bipartisanism
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Delayed Decision. Thus, when the Judiciary Committee met on Tuesday morning last week, Libonati demanded that he be allowed to withdraw his motion. As soon as he did, the trembling bipartisan coalition collapsed. Never firmly convinced that they should turn against the tough subcommittee bill, liberal Democrats and Republicans immediately bolted back to support it. Moreover, the Southern Democrats on the committee were being urged by two foxy old Confederates-Virginia's Representative Howard Smith and Georgia's Senator Richard Russell-to support the stiff bill. Their reasoning: since it had no chance of becoming law, its approval...
...this summer you hadn't bothered to read, and you can look at what's in them and you can draw up a package containing what's in them and have the President say publicly he's glad to work with Republicans on a bipartisan bill and to accept Republican proposals, and you can put that package forward as a unity bill. You do that, and you'll get Republicans to vote...
...bill simply went too far. It antagonized not only Southerners but many Republicans and moderate Democrats who questioned its sweeping grants of federal authority. Celler also angered Ohio Republican William McCulloch, ranking minority member of the civil rights subcommittee, by ramming through the changes without any effort toward bipartisan consultation...
...impossible to justify on the grounds of military necessity the refusal to tell Republicans what Democrats already know. And when even the Senate minority leader cannot find out what the government is doing, Kennedy should hardly feel betrayed if Senator Keating does not recognize the existence of a bipartisan foreign policy...
...working for that which I think is right for Arkansas, so that we will take our position with the ranks of states with dignity, not buffoonery." In a more private moment, he built a monument to understatement: "I have a sneaking suspicion that the Governor's bipartisan policy is coming...