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	'Bipartisan' remedy with a hidden agenda - The Boston Globe
		THE CONCORD Coalition is back, the group of bipartisan elders founded in 1992 to sound the clarion call for budget balance.
		It is about as bipartisan as Wall Street.
		It was a purely partisan assault, intended to reduce taxes paid by the wealthy and gut government's ability to address social needs.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/01/13/bipartisan_remedy_with_a_hidden_agenda (750 words)

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		This bipartisan compromise legislation clearly states that employers cannot be held responsible for the actions of managed care companies unless they actively made the decision to deny a health care service to a patient.
		Under this bipartisan compromise, plans must cover routine costs (those costs of treatment that would normally be covered by the plan) of participation in certain clinical trials if the patient has a life-threatening or serious illness for which no standard treatment is effective and participation in the trial offers meaningful potential for significant clinical benefit.
		This bipartisan compromise legislation protects all patients who are in the middle of a course of treatment for a chronic or disabling condition, ensuring that they can keep their doctor even if they are forced to changed plans or their doctor is dropped from their plan's network.
	democrats.senate.gov /pbr/summary.html (1421 words)

	bipartisan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		In a two-party system (such as in the United States or Australia), bipartisan refers to any bill, act, resolution, or any other action of a political body in which both of the major political parties are...
		Bipartisan immigration bill faces bipartisan fight - CNN.com
		The bipartisan immigration bill that could allow citizenship to an estimated 12 million undocumented...
	encarta.msn.com /bipartisan.html (195 words)

	BIPARTISAN AMERICANS \| Uniting mankind to create a better country!
		In a two-party system (such as in the United States), bipartisan refers to any bill, act, resolution, or any other action of a political body in which both of the major political parties are in agreement.
		Often, compromises are called bipartisan if they reconcile the desires of both parties from an original version of legislation or other proposal.
		Failure to attain bipartisan support in such a system can easily lead to gridlock, often angering each other and their constituencies.
	www.freewebs.com /bipartisan/index.htm (282 words)

	WorkingForChange-We're all bipartisan
		And if bipartisanship is what matters most, there is far more bipartisan accord on finding the best way out of Iraq than on escalating the war.
		A live case is the president's demand that a badly needed increase in the minimum wage be paired in a bipartisan way with yet more business tax breaks.
		Democrats -- yes, with the bipartisan help of pro-labor Republicans -- should have the courage to pass a clean minimum-wage increase and dare the president to veto it or his Senate allies to filibuster it.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?itemid=21861 (792 words)

	Moving to the 'Bipartisan Center' -- December 1999 Phyllis Schlafly Report
		Berger's speech was entitled "Strengthening the Bipartisan Center: An Internationalist Agenda for America." He identified Clinton's goal as an "internationalist agenda," stated that "bipartisanism" is the road to take us there, and warned that "isolationism" is the dragon to be slain along the way.
		Bipartisan folly prevents the Republican leadership from telling the American people the truth about the humanitarian disaster and foreign-policy failure of Clinton's wars and peacekeeping operations in Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti.
		The rush toward the Bipartisan Center, Clinton's global goals and treaties, Clinton's "engagement" and "humanitarian warfare" in Yugoslavia/Kosovo, and the racket of taxpayer handouts to corrupt foreign governments are all issues that ought to be fully debated during the 2000 election campaign.
	www.eagleforum.org /psr/1999/dec99/psrdec99.html (3098 words)

	Govs pitch bipartisan Medicaid plan on Hill
		Governors unveiled their bipartisan proposals to reform Medicaid for the first time on Capitol Hill Wednesday (June15) but met skepticism from both sides of the aisle, foreshadowing political schisms over how to fix the nation's health-care safety net.
		The difficulties of negotiating a solution to Medicaid’s woes quickly showed up in the clash between the governors’ bipartisan approach and rifts on display in Congress, where Democrats have boycotted a commission to study Medicaid and deficit-conscious Republican leaders have pushed through a commitment to trim Medicaid by at least $10 billion over five years.
		Warner and Huckabee, who also testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, hammered repeatedly on two major themes: that states are bearing the brunt of the rising cost of Medicaid and that the NGA proposal should be given significant weight because it represents a bipartisan consensus among the nations' governors.
	www.stateline.org /live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=37861 (1092 words)

	Stan Goff: The Bipartisan Ship - Politics on The Huffington Post
		The Bipartisan Ship is why there is no meaningful right for workers to organize in most states.
		The Bipartisan Ship is what gave us the "free trade" agreements that have gutted local enterprises, destroyed the trade union movement, savaged the economies of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and reinforced overpriced war materiel contracts as a surrogate export market during an apparently permanent trade deficit.
		The Bipartisan Ship is committed to maintaining control, by hook or by crook, of the region whose residents live inconveniently atop more than half the world's easily recoverable oil, and adjacent to most of the world's natural gas.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /stan-goff/the-bipartisan-ship_b_33710.html (938 words)

	Ways And Means Package Departs From Bipartisan Principles For Effective Stimulus and Offers Little Help to the ...
		The legislation also is inconsistent with bipartisan principles for a sound and fiscally responsible stimulus package that the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Budget Committees issued just two weeks ago.
		Taken as a whole, the Ways and Means legislation reflects a sharp departure from the bipartisan principles for economic stimulus that have emerged over the past few weeks in discussions among congressional leaders, the Administration, and respected economic advisers such as Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin.
		Despite what appeared to be bipartisan acceptance of this principle, nearly $60 billion — or almost 40 percent — of the $162 billion ten-year cost of the package would occur after 2002, when the economy is likely to have recovered.
	www.cbpp.org /10-17-01tax.htm (7278 words)

	Post-Cold War Defense Spending Cuts: A Bipartisan Decision
		Not only was the drawdown of the 1990s clearly a bipartisan affair, the best available evidence suggests that Democrats and Republicans are still remarkably close in terms of their support for defense spending.
		As indicated above, the decision to cut defense budgets in the 1990s was clearly a bipartisan one, driven in large part by the disappearance of the Soviet Union and a bipartisan desire to bring the federal deficit under control.
		In other words, while the bipartisan consensus for cutting defense that characterized most of the 1990s may be over, neither party has as yet shown a clear commitment to funding major increases in funding of the kind being called for by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
	www.csbaonline.org /4Publications/Archive/H.20000831.Post-Cold_War_Defe/H.20000831.Post-Cold_War_Defe.htm (1855 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Specter and Leahy Introduce Bipartisan Asbestos Bill..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), Max Baucus (D-Mont.), and George Voinovich (R-Ohio), is the culmination of years of bipartisan discussion led by Specter, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Leahy, the ranking Democratic member of the panel.
		Below is Leahy's statement on the introduction of the bill as well as a chart comparing provisions in the current Specter-Leahy bill to a previous asbestos-litigation bill considered last year.
		Our bipartisan asbestos bill protects those settlements between named defendants and named victims, and also protects settlements that provide for health insurance or health care.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=46096 (1703 words)

	VDARE - Immigration policy stupid, evil and hurting Americans, by Peter Brimelow
		Unfortunately, our current immigration policy is consuming the environment with urban sprawl, hurting the poor and minorities with intensified wage competition, and ultimately threatening the American nation itself—what Abraham Lincoln called "the last, best hope of earth"—with cultural and linguistic fragmentation.
		Abraham was a key figure in sabotaging the most recent chance of reform, the Smith-Simpson immigration bill, in 1996.
		Ironically, this was a truly bipartisan measure, proposed by Republicans but based on the work of the Jordan Commission, headed by the former fl liberal Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
	www.vdare.com /pb/contra_costa_times_article.htm (751 words)

	Iraq Panel Could Spur Bipartisan Cooperation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		While there is no guarantee that the proposals will be adopted, official Washington is also taking note of the bipartisan consensus reached by the commission, a rare event in the age of polarized U.S. politics.
		Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, praised the bipartisan approach of the Iraq Study Group.
		But the praise from lawmakers of both parties for the Baker-Hamilton commission's bipartisan approach does not guarantee congressional support for its recommendations, especially a push for troop withdrawals by 2008 and a call to engage Syria and Iran.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-12-08-voa39.cfm (830 words)

	Reaganomics, by William A. Niskanen: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		One reason for these achievements was the broad bipartisan support for these measures beginning in the later years of the Carter administration.
		Reagan's first tax proposal, for example, had previously been endorsed by the Democratic Congress beginning in 1978, and the general structure of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 was first proposed by two junior Democratic members of Congress in 1982.
		The bipartisan support of these policies permitted Reagan to implement more radical changes than in other areas of economic policy.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/Reaganomics.html (1780 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Bipartisan Legislation Would Fix Worst Parts of Patriot Act While Maintaining Key Law ...
		The urgency to keep America safe and free has never been greater as sections of the Patriot Act are set to "sunset" unless Congress votes to reauthorize it.
		WASHINGTON - New bipartisan legislation that will be introduced tomorrow would bring some of the most extreme provisions of the Patriot Act back in line with the Constitution, the American Civil Liberties Union said.
		"This critical legislation is introduced as bipartisan opposition to some of the worst Patriot Act provisions is growing both inside and outside of Congress," said Gregory T. Nojeim, Associate Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
	www.aclu.org /SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17935&c=206 (578 words)

	Senator Joe Lieberman: News Release
		The President’s description of our “clear, hold, and build” strategy for victory in Iraq and the tactical response of most Democrats suggests that there may be more agreement here than meets the eye and ear in the dueling partisan press conferences that characterize public discourse in Washington today.
		What I am suggesting here, as I listen and read the statements made, is that there is broad bipartisan agreement on the goals, on the strategic interest we have in the successful completion of our mission in Iraq; there are disagreements about tactics.
		I know that some will say that proposing a forum for bipartisan cooperation on the war is, in the current intensely partisan environment in Washington, naïve and impractical.
	lieberman.senate.gov /newsroom/release.cfm?id=249522 (1356 words)

	Public Citizen \| Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) - The Bipartisan Campaign Refom Act of 2002
		Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) - The Bipartisan Campaign Refom Act of 2002
		The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was signed by the President and enacted on March 27, 2002.
		BCRA capped a seven-year effort by its congressional sponsors to change federal campaign law and marked the most significant amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) in more than a quarter century.
	www.citizen.org /congress/campaign/legislation/bcralaw/index.cfm (158 words)

	Bipartisan Prospects (11/28/06) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
		By most accounts, the recent high-water mark for bipartisanship in Congress was during the four-year presidency of the senior Bush, when Democrats had 55 seats in the Senate and a 43-seat majority in the House.
		Bush 41 and Richard Nixon were the only elected presidents to spend their entire terms with Congress held by the opposition, and what history regards as the signature achievements of Bush's presidency were bipartisan in nature.
		Of course, the hallmarks of that bipartisan record -- particularly the 1990 budget deal -- contained the seeds of Bush's re-election defeat in 1992.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/1106/112806op.htm (1537 words)

	U.S. Mayor Article \| Bollwage Urges House to Find Bipartisan Agreement on Brownfields (July 23, 2001)
		At the hearing, Bollwage joined with other witnesses before the House panel, which is chaired by Representative Paul E. Gillmor (OH), to discuss three pending brownfields bills — S. 350, a Chairman's discussion draft and a Democratic discussion draft.
		Reflecting on the history of the Conference's efforts on this legislation, Bollwage noted that, "enactment of bipartisan brownfields legislation has been among the Conference's top priorities for several years.
		In fact, this is now our third Congress where we have been urging bipartisan Congressional action on this legislation." He further emphasized to the panel members that, "at no time, Mr.
	www.usmayors.org /uscm/us_mayor_newspaper/documents/07_23_01/brownfields.asp (684 words)

	Plan Colombia and Beyond: Bipartisanship
		If majorities on both sides of the aisle see the current course in Colombia as the best possible one, then the policy must not be controversial; all those peace and human-rights people opposing it must be fringe characters way out of touch with the mainstream.
		During the 2000 debate on the first Plan Colombia appropriation, this body did indeed act in a bipartisan fashion, rejecting amendments by Democrat Paul Wellstone (11 to 89) and Republican Slade Gorton (19 to 79) seeking to cut military assistance.
		The record of the last few years shows a string of sharply divided party-line votes, not a bipartisan consensus behind the current U.S. policy toward Colombia.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/blog/archives/000019.htm (1114 words)

	Media Matters - News outlets described Katrina probe as "bipartisan," ignored that Democrats will be ...
		PHIL KEATING (correspondent): Also, a House of Representatives committee has voted to create a 20-member bipartisan committee to investigate fully the hurricane response and relief effort with the mission to report its final findings to the full House no later than February 15.
		The bipartisan select committee is expected to report its results by February 15.
		Winning by rigging the rules is triply sweet: 1- there's the illusion of a fair fight, and 2- you can drag it out, have all your corporate pals parade it on their alphabet channels, so the audience forgets the initial shannigans and then, of course, 3- you win.
	mediamatters.org /items/200509160012 (3088 words)

	Lincoln Sponsors Bipartisan Family Tax Relief Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The bipartisan tax relief proposal will provide many low-income families with a greater portion of the child tax credit and ensure that almost 200,000 families with a family member serving in combat receive the credit.
		The new tax proposal was prompted by a worsening budget outlook caused by tax cuts that have not been accompanied by the closure of abusive tax loopholes or a reduction in spending.
		The bipartisan package saves costs by eliminating abusive tax shelters, including many of those used by Enron to avoid taxes.
	lincoln.senate.gov /press_show.cfm?id=224329 (328 words)

	‘West Wing’ goes more bipartisan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When NBC’s White House drama “The West Wing” returns next week for its fifth year, the most obvious difference from last season will be that John Goodman, not Martin Sheen, is calling the shots in the Oval Office as the famously liberal show grows more bipartisan.
		The stage for a more bipartisan tone actually was set last season, when series creator Aaron Sorkin wrote the election of a Republican-controlled Congress into the show.
		Now Wells, who took control of the series when Sorkin left in May, intends to use the show’s new fictional politics to explore issues dividing real-life Washington and the nation, including debates over the economy and global security.
	www.msnbc.com /news/968925.asp?cp1=1 (565 words)

	New Senate and Committee Leaders Seek Bipartisan Cooperation
		“Our efforts are going to be to work on a bipartisan basis and open fashion to solve the problems of the American people,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, said January 4 after a meeting of senators from both parties.
		Biden has said he seeks a bipartisan and international consensus on Iraq policy, and he plans an extensive series of public hearings on Iraq policy beginning in January that will include testimony by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
		Lieberman also has said he wants to create bipartisan congressional groups to seek consensus on urgent national issues such as Iraq policy.
	usinfo.state.gov /xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2007&m=January&x=20070104171256MVyelwarC0.4743616 (873 words)

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