Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...legislation is unlikely to pass so long as large pharmaceutical companies maintain their influence on Capitol Hill. Drug companies spent over $800 million on federal lobbying and federal and state campaign donations during the last seven years—more than any other industry, according to the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity—and employ nearly 1,300 lobbyists in the nation’s capital...
...roaring supporters blocks from the Capitol in Washington D.C. "Democrats are ready to lead!" A hoarse Rep. Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told the cheering supporters, "We'll give you the government that no longer lets you down." And he pledged to "reach across the partisan divide...
...students live in a bubble, out of touch with our non-college peers. This is especially true of students at Harvard, where the disparity extends into the realm of political activism. For many of us, on-campus involvement in politics, whether through a party-affiliated club or a non-partisan structure, such as the IOP, is an integral part of life, and we find it hard to imagine life any other way. We forget just how unique these opportunities and our political enthusiasm really...
...House. The Republicans claim it would result in higher taxes, weakened national security and slower economic growth, all charges the Democrats dispute. But observers on both sides of the political aisle seem to agree on one thing: an era of unprecedented gridlock could soon descend upon Washington. With partisan Democrats in control of at least one chamber of Congress and the Bush Administration riding out its last two years in the White House, the thinking goes, the nation's capital would descend into endless hearings, investigations and political scoresettling - and no legislation would get through...
...Mayhew argues, this pattern has held true since then - even as countless pundits have bemoaned how much more poisonously partisan our nation's politics has become. Two of the most productive legislative sessions over the last 16 years were in 1995-1996 - when a G.O.P.-controlled Congress and President Clinton passed 13 major laws, including a massive deregulation of the telecommunications industry and a welfare reform bill that drastically reshaped how the federal government and states supported low-income people - and 2001- 2002, when President Bush joined a Democrat-dominated Senate in authorizing two wars and passing the Patriot...