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...believe it will be more difficult to mobilize a bipartisan environmental effort due to your past political affiliations? Kevin Buselmeier, BROOKLYN...
...public,” he said in an interview before the lecture. “We made an enormous effort to write in language that the general public can understand.” During the question and answer session, Chivian said that the issue of protecting biodiversity is bipartisan. He pointed to a U.S. Senate resolution on protecting biodiversity in developing countries introduced by Delaware Senator Joesph Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, speculating that this might be the beginning of a more robust role for the U.S. in shaping international environmental policy. Chivian said the book was written...
After that, his priority, Obama said, is passing an energy bill. Presidents have been talking about reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels for decades. McCain's embrace of alternative energy has given the issue a bipartisan flavor. And Obama believes that the quest for new engines and fuels for the future will serve as a "new driver" for robust economic growth. (It has happened before - just ask Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.) But momentum alone won't make it happen. Beneath the surface consensus lies enormous controversy. The cap-and-trade system of charging factories and utilities for permits...
...over John McCain 60% to 40% among early voters. What's more, the number of early voters could approach 30% of all of Florida's 11.2 million registered voters by the actual Nov. 4 Election Day. That massive turnout prompted Florida's GOP governor, Charlie Crist, to flash his bipartisan bona fides this week and lengthen early voting on weekdays by four hours (while letting each county decide whether to lengthen the normal hours this weekend...
...fact, while the parties may be jointly lifting the national mood, the bipartisan spirit burns no brighter in Westminster than in Washington. Even as they declared a truce over the financial meltdown, British pols were trading blows. "We meet at a time of national anxiety," Osborne told delegates at the Conservative party conference on Sept. 29. He asserted that his party was determined to make rich bankers pay for the mess they had helped to create. "Unlike New Labour we are not bedazzled by big money," he said...