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McClellan said Bush would be urging the Senate and the Senate minority leader to let the comprehensive bipartisan agreement move forward.

Podesta said the president-elect also will look to form a bipartisan Cabinet by including Republicans.

Mr Biden has said he thinks some of his Republican colleagues are ready for a bipartisan approach to Iraq.

The Wall Street Journal's editorial page called it a "bipartisan strategic muddle ginned up for domestic political purposes" .

"He is going to have bipartisan support in the Senate, and I would anticipate he will be confirmed, " he said.

He gave a landmark speech to the U. N. in September, and Colin Powell is moving the issue forward in a commendably bipartisan way.

The president summoned a bipartisan group of former White House officials to help efforts to gain ratification before the end of the year.

In the case of at least one proposal reportedly included in the Senate package, bipartisan support actually seems to prove the opposite.

There has been an air of civility and bipartisan co-operation around health reform so far, but it may not last long.

Congress returns from recess on Tuesday, and bipartisan groups in the House and Senate have been trying to hash out compromise deals.

Another approach, with which America has occasionally flirted, is to pass decisions to a bipartisan commission.

The point of our bipartisan legislation is not to punish any one country, but to encourage all countries to follow international rules.

But at least for major legislation like the first Bush tax cuts, there was usually significant bipartisan support.

It makes no gesture, however small, however costless to its larger agenda, of a bipartisan approach to the great questions it addresses.

She has been a regular at Senate prayer breakfasts, where something of the old bipartisan Senate survives.

"This bipartisan package should be acted upon rapidly and can help alleviate the economic pain felt by millions of Americans, " she said.

Again, that's what a supposedly centrist Republican, a member of the Gang of Six trying to devise a bipartisan health plan, sounds like.

The panel was set up in August to thrash out a bipartisan agreement to reduce the deficit.

Taken together, they're about as close to a bipartisan approach as is likely to be achieved in Washington.

Just a few years ago, when I was a senator, we forged a bipartisan coalition in favor of comprehensive reform.

Jack Lew, the new White House budget director, says controversial initiatives have to be bipartisan.

I ask you to call your senators and to urge them to vote for this bipartisan alternative.

A complete constitutional rewrite ought to be a bipartisan affair in which government and opposition work together.

We've got to fix it for the future generations of Americans . . . It's got to be bipartisan.

When a book alleged that John McCain had once called his wife Cindy one, the outrage was bipartisan.

The challenge this time, he said, was greater and demanded "bipartisan discipline and urgency. "

The president-elect has stated his desire to forge a bipartisan consensus on all major initiatives undertaken during his administration.

But the fact is, without bipartisan support, as we had just a few years ago, we cannot solve this problem.

He established a bipartisan commission on the deficit, but failed to pick up and run with its recommendations.

I told the Congress and the American people that one of America's greatest strengths in the Cold War had been a bipartisan foreign policy.

McCain also seemed to be aiming at appealing directly to independents, who tend to like a bipartisan approach to politics.

The White House also made clear that the president's interest in a bipartisan bill had its limits.

He called for a bipartisan strategy to win the war in Iraq, and he called for a renewal of conservative Christian values.

Whether the president can once again attract some level of bipartisan support for his proposed budget remains to be seen.

He came in talking about working in bipartisan manner and only at the end was Obama able to cut a deal with the GOP on taxes.

Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming is one of a handful of Republicans who has been discussing a bipartisan approach on health care.

And I'm glad that Senator McCain brought up the history, the bipartisan history of us engaging in direct diplomacy.

But, the point is that this is an historic bipartisan compromise agreement upon which further progress will be made.

Rather than denouncing the president's strategy, it would voice support for recommendations by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.

Similarly, it's far too soon to assume that Obama's opening act signals the curtain coming down on his bipartisan ideal.

But they recently ran into a wall of bipartisan wrath before a US Senate panel now investigating Goldman's role in the financial crisis.

The immigration-reform deal among a bipartisan group of U. S. senators is a key milestone in what will continue to be a bruising debate.

Mr McCain, for all his efforts at bipartisan grandstanding , will find it hard to escape guilt by association with the Bush administration .

Earlier this year he signalled that he might step aside to make a bipartisan government happen.

"There is nothing about this process that has been bipartisan. This is not change you can believe in, " said Graham.

I congratulate the newly sworn-in Members of Congress, and I look forward to working with the new Congress in a bipartisan way.

Or take climate change. It would be politically suicidal to force higher energy prices on Americans without bipartisan cover.

The president said he looks forward to having more bipartisan meetings in the future.

Politically, this will surely be the price of any bipartisan agreement.

It will be something that we continue to try to work on a bipartisan basis to get the cost of childcare down.

A powerful bipartisan programme of fiscal stimulus, financial restoration and regulatory vigilance should be considered.

Bipartisan co-operation in Congress has collapsed across a range of subjects; policy towards globalisation is no exception.

There is even tension of a sort over Israel, a bipartisan cause if ever there was one.

That sentiment gibes, meanwhile, with a bipartisan Senate bill threatening China in a similar way.

Despite previous attempts over the last six years having failed, Baugh and other union leaders claim that bipartisan support is growing.

The president made no mention of the recommendations recently set forth by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.

The bipartisan Baker-Hamilton report gives Mr Bush an excuse for making just such a pivot.

But the severity of the U. S. recession has created considerable bipartisan backing for quick action.

Thanks to a bipartisan yen for gerrymandering, virtually all electoral districts are safely Democratic or safely Republican.

Yet without another bipartisan coalition, the prospects for negotiating further trade barrier reductions around the world will be dim.

Obama met individually with Democratic and Republican House and Senate leaders and later spoke to a bipartisan leadership gathering.

Everyone pretends to be in favour of bipartisan dialogue, but it is a dialogue of the deaf.

Much has been written about party polarization and the decline of the bipartisan foreign policy consensus since the Cold War.

After word that a bipartisan agreement in principle had been reached on a plan, House Republicans refused to go along.

And they decided they were too busy for a bipartisan meeting with the White House this week.

Mr Rudd came within a whisker of snaring bipartisan support for a market-based scheme to cut carbon pollution.

At the White House meeting, Mr. Obama urged Congressional leaders to reach a bipartisan deal.

In response to a bipartisan House inquiry, Google says it uses technology to more precisely follow Web surfing across affiliated sites.

But Republican lawmakers are angry over the disclosure, accusing President Obama of preempting bipartisan efforts.

Absent sustained and vociferous public outcry, President Barack Obama's call for a bipartisan budget deal may fall on deaf ears.

Hopes for a bipartisan compromise on health care appear to be fading.

The mechanism has the bipartisan support of business leaders as "a welcome increase in speech, not a limitation of speech. "

I give him a lot of credit for the deregulation work he did and the bipartisan resolution for the Social Security problem.

Instead, he apparently intended the pay freeze announcement as a peace gesture to Republicans the day before a bipartisan summit.

"This has broad bipartisan support, and even the labour unions are relatively comfortable with it, " Mr Alden says.

At the crudest level , Wall Street's ill- gotten gains corrupted and continue to corrupt politics , in a nicely bipartisan way .

On such large, complicated issues they prefer reforms to come with a bipartisan stamp of approval.

Mr Obama said a proposal had been put forward on Tuesday by a bipartisan "gang of six" senators.

This used to be a bipartisan issue, and I know that in this group it really is.

Since 1987, the presidential debates have been organized by the bipartisan organization, the Commission on Presidential Debates.

There is a chance, however, that a bipartisan group representatives could buck the speaker and send the bill to the White House.

Among these laws is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, better known as McCain-Feingold after its senatorial sponsors.

One thing that even they have said as well is they want a tougher line on China, not necessarily a bipartisan line on China.

Already American politics has succumbed to election paralysis, with neither party interested in bipartisan solutions.

Except not all of it. The bipartisan recitation omitted several critical passages, including the three-fifths compromise.

He might even, if he can relearn the virtues of bipartisan dealmaking, bully a climate-change bill through Congress.

McKinnon is co-founder of a group called 'No Labels' that promotes bipartisan cooperation.

Just three weeks after the inauguration the vote marks a failure of Obama's expression of hope for a new era of bipartisan politics.

This bipartisan legislation promotes the cause of service among young people by investing in service-learning.

He might even, if he can relearn the virtues of bipartisan deal making, bully a climate-change bill through Congress.

The bill was the most ambitious to reach the Senate floor thus far, and enjoyed bipartisan support.

Well, the bipartisan "agreement on principles" released on Thursday looks a lot better than the original Paulson plan.

They passed a bipartisan transportation bill back in March.

Congressional committees are bipartisan; they consist of both Democratic and Republican members.

And any deal must be bipartisan, so neither party can blame the other for necessarily unpopular action.

There was a bipartisan agreement on the need for discussions.

A preliminary report from the bipartisan commission on contractors, published in June, complained that oversight remains patchy.

The president's bipartisan budget commission, which was due to report in December 2010, is said to have made steady progress.

And he has already mentioned his hopes of setting up a bipartisan commission on entitlement reform.

He has invited the Republican leadership to an extraordinary bipartisan health summit in the White House on February 25th.

Scott directs the Committee on Capital Market Regulation, an independent and bipartisan group of financiers, lawyers and academics.

Before long, a bipartisan delegation of senators and representatives came to take me to the House chamber.

In his later career, though, Mr Kennedy forged bipartisan coalitions to push for legislation he supported.

Mr Obama said he wants a bipartisan commission to figure out how to get the deficit down.

Mr. Obama is still talking about bipartisan outreach, and maybe if he caves in sufficiently he can avoid a federal shutdown this spring.

In case you want the unbiased , bipartisan truth: embryonic stem cell research shows great promise.

Powell is currently a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, focused on federal and state fiscal issues.

GM said it was "deeply disappointed" that the bipartisan agreement faltered.

Light believes there's bipartisan support for the change, and hopes for congressional approval sometime this year.

A bipartisan group of 13 governors has written congressional leaders asking them to cover the money shortfall before the budget year ends.

The committee had bipartisan support, unlike the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which reported in January.

And it was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a strong bipartisan vote of 14-4.

And solving the country's major problems in a bipartisan fashion will be difficult under these rancorous circumstances.

The result was a bipartisan programme of ill-designed deregulation for the US and, given its influence, the world.

The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act sailed through to passage with bipartisan support.

There will be a bipartisan push to send this bill to the president's desk this year.

In a bipartisan congressional meeting and in responses to press questions, I argued against suspending aid.

There was some bipartisan support, to be sure.

Last, they should create a capable, credible and bipartisan commission to set the stage for significant reforms in 2009.

Convening occasional meetings with advocates and urging bipartisan support for reform are not sufficient.

Thus, Obama is giving a careful public appearance of being bipartisan.

Separate from the Biden working group, the so-called "Gang of Six" senators continue to work on developing their own bipartisan plan.

Bipartisan backers of the bill are hoping for a vote in the House of Representatives next week.

President Barack Obama commended the Senate for "acting in a bipartisan way" with the vote.

Although that seemed ominous for bipartisan co-operation, Republican senators were on course to vote for the deal.

The bilious argument over American health care has not helped: this is not a good time for any bill that needs bipartisan support.

Mr. Obama and his aides also noted that he and top advisers had consulted with bipartisan leaders in Congress.

McCain acknowledges that earmark spending is a bipartisan problem; about 40 percent of the earmarks came from fellow Republicans.

It underscored the significance of moving forward and moving forward on a bipartisan basis and doing it quickly.

Boehner's proposal would also create a bipartisan committee and have lawmakers vote on a constitutional amendment for balanced budgets.

To advise on the strategy, the trade group turned to a bipartisan roster of consultants.

A bipartisan meeting was set for Thursday to begin drafting a compromise, which top Democrats said they hoped could pass within days.

Paulson's testimony, which is available on the US Treasury website, included an appeal for a "bipartisan" consensus.

in response , we developed a bipartisan foreign policy to deal with those new challenges and dangers.

That bipartisan belief in the social and economic benefits of higher rates of home ownership has been shaken by the financial crisis.

Boehner says Obama needs to move beyond Democratic dogma to find bipartisan solutions. Craig Windham, NPR News, Washington.

News reports say that Democrats hope to pass an economic plan with broad bipartisan support.

Politicians from both parties immediately sought ways to gain partisan advantage from the bipartisan event.

A bipartisan committee of Congress is due to report on the latest round of budget cuts on November 23, with no firm agreement in sight.

In his fantasy US, politicians bury differences in bipartisan harmony.

Other NASA officials noted that Congressional support for the new programs was bipartisan.

It is true that Mr Obama has made some bipartisan appointments, keeping Robert Gates at the Pentagon and giving transport to Ray LaHood.

This kind of effective cooperation will depend upon broad and bipartisan cooperation.

Senators and congressmen, Republican and Democrat alike, join in the hymn to the virtues of bipartisan effort.

An initial $700 billion bank rescue plan won bipartisan support in the U. S. Congress.

Congress has appointed a bipartisan commission to examine the role of nuclear weapons in future U. S. security policy.

This came several days after Mr. Obama appointed a bipartisan commission on the deficit, albeit with not many powers.

Mr Obama has now asked Democratic and Republican leaders to engage in bipartisan negotiations starting in May.

Mr. Obama met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Republicans and Democrats on the bipartisan fiscal commission that I set up put forth good proposals.

The House and Senate have both passed bipartisan resolutions condemning Hizbullah and affirming Congress's support for Israel.

In social policy, only new programmes with strong bipartisan support (if there are any) will stand a chance.

As The president is fully aware that who there is a bipartisan form the majority in the House will to pass the Senate bill.

And given the wrangling, the chances of strong bipartisan support for any deal seem unlikely, investors said.

In such cases, the most feared phrase in politics should be "bipartisan agreement" - for which read "cartel" .

Bills include a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for firearms purchases.

That points yet again to the importance of the bipartisan approach taken by the Senate Finance Committee.

The committee duly blessed the treaty in September by a solid bipartisan majority of 14-4 and sent it to the full Senate for ratification.

"Slurpee is bipartisan, but we thank President Obama for the free advertising for our popular drink, " a 7-Eleven spokeswoman said.

Meanwhile, a bipartisan "Gang of Six" senators are labouring towards their own deficit-reduction package.

A bipartisan group of U. S. senators is introducing a bill to lift restrictions on Americans' travelling to Cuba.

Six senators, three of them Democrats, have urged him to slow the passage of legislation in order to win bipartisan support.

A bipartisan group of senators unveiled one shortly before the president spoke.

Any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan.

Matt Dallek is a political historian at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.

President Bush welcomed the bipartisan compromise measure saying it will improve U. S. capabilities to prevent another terrorist attacks.

Mr. Obama also pointed out that the loan guarantee program predates his administration and has in the past had bipartisan support.

He also began the hard job of reinventing himself as a bipartisan president.

But Senator Ron Wyden, a bipartisan-minded Democrat, says incrementalism cannot work.

Britain had to adopt a bipartisan approach to settle its Northern Ireland problem.

Yet his harsh tone then made a rational bipartisan agreement more difficult.

If so, a bipartisan consensus in the US is now quite plausible.

This leads candidates pander to extremes, and lessens the chances of bipartisan co-operation.

It is time for Congress to act, and I hope they act in a bipartisan fashion.

In 2006, Mr McCain worked closely with Ted Kennedy on a bipartisan Senate bill to reform America's broken immigration system.

This has to be a bipartisan plan, and not just at the leadership level.

So when Mr Obama appointed his bipartisan commission on deficit-cutting, it seemed a token gesture.

On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill aimed to force the administration's hand.

He has repeatedly stated his bipartisan intentions, flexibility, and openness to compromise.

Democrats in the House have enough votes to pass the bill, but Mr. Obama wants broad bipartisan backing for the measure.

That's why I have introduced bipartisan legislation to phase out invasive research on great apes in the United States.

Another initiative was launched this autumn after the summer's debt ceiling debacle, namely a bipartisan "Supercommittee" .

Mr. Obama has been calling for a bipartisan approach to the problem.

Obama briefed bipartisan congressional leaders Friday about the situation in Libya and transfer of command and control.

Moreover, I believed we could pass welfare reform separately with bipartisan support.

Republican senator John Tower's bipartisan commission later found that Reagan did know about it.

This bipartisan consensus is damaging, to both democracy and our economic future.

The bipartisan national commission recommended three of them, with different formats.

I welcome the bipartisan enthusiasm for spending discipline.

So attention is turning to a bipartisan "Gang of Six" in the Senate.

Attempts at molding a bipartisan bill foundered after Republicans insisted that a new consumer-protection agency should have few powers.

Obama says it is important for Congress to act quickly in a bipartisan way on the credit crisis.

However, the big four were, by bipartisan agreement, though not by law, forbidden to take each other over.

Pyongyang is again demonstrating that it's a bipartisan pain in the neck.

Bill Clinton's welfare reforms, which chivvied the jobless to find work, were also solidly bipartisan.

After intense bipartisan negotiations, Mr Baucus (pictured) unveiled his bill on September 16th.

The 1970s saw a bipartisan reduction in the regulation of airline travel, trucking, security exchanges, and commercial banking.

He argues the job should be handed over to a bipartisan task force.

He convinced it to cap property taxes at 2%. On December 9th he brokered a bipartisan reform to pay arbitration.

All the regulations they are promulgating, they point out, are based on laws passed by Congress, usually on a bipartisan basis.

Then, on July 3rd, the freshman Republican governor announced a bipartisan agreement on property-tax reform.

S& P has also said it wants a credible agreement, meaning one that has bipartisan support.

I call on everyone in Washington to come together in a bipartisan way to address this crisis.

The bill also would create a bipartisan congressional panel to aim for an additional $1. 5 trillion of cuts.

Even the president's own bipartisan commission can't agree on what to do.

A bipartisan effort is afoot on Capitol Hill to save FutureGen, but the project is on life support.

The bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will make a recommendation by Nov. 23 to deal with future deficits.

ON NOVEMBER 3rd, surprisingly, a bill was passed by the House of Representatives with strong bipartisan support.

A bipartisan group in the House is working on its own version.

A bipartisan fiscal commission, charged with working out how to balance America's budget, offers another possible meeting place.

The push for overarching legislation is bipartisan.

There was bipartisan reform. We backedaway from those dark days.

At last there is bipartisan consensus on something in Washington. Everybody agrees they are furious at American International Group.

After intense bipartisan negotiations, Mr Baucus unveiled his bill on September 16th.

For the past year, California has had its own bipartisan supercommittee of sorts.

The bipartisan commission was set up by Congress in 2000 to investigate the security implications of growing trade with China.

Both candidates agree that a solution needs to be bipartisan.

Because of the political peril of touching Social Security, broad reform demands bipartisan support.

The origins of the faith-based idea were bipartisan.

But he does not expect legislation until 2009 or 2010 and predicts it will command bipartisan support.

Bipartisan support for New START could not be stronger.

The Presidents gave bipartisan gravitas to the campaign, and we needed all the help we could get.

But in the middle it could win bipartisan public support, and deserves to.

These are projects and efforts that have bipartisan support that we know could possibly get support in the Congress and the Senate.

Under the bill, a bipartisan committee in Congress will work to find further savings in federal budgets.

To put us on solid ground, we should also find a bipartisan solution to strengthen Social Security for future generations.

Although the fights certainly got nasty, most important fiscal legislation in that decade was bipartisan.

It's hard to get bipartisan agreement these days.

They signed on last week as co-sponsors of bipartisan legislation that was unveiled on June 13, Senate aides said.

It should establish a bipartisan board to oversee the plan's implementation, and it should be enacted as soon as possible.

There is growing bipartisan support in Congress for changing those rules.

Energy bills have in the past garnered bipartisan support, and this one also needs to.

As it happens, he was a member of the bipartisan Bowles-Simpson deficit-reduction commission set up last year by Barack Obama.

And the bipartisan education reform, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, added hope.

Since this is a bipartisan mess, the likely answer is No.

'It's very important for people to know how strong the sentiment is, ' he said, and that it's bipartisan.

Most candidates promise that they will work in a bipartisan manner. Most candidates lie.

But concerns about the leaks are bipartisan.

On the same day, by a bipartisan majority of 58-41, the Senate voted to support the action.

So, in the first half of Mr Bush's speech he struck a bipartisan tone.

That makes it desirable to seek bipartisan support for the more controversial ones, such as labour-law changes.

The Senate bill won bipartisan support and it enjoys bipartisan support in the House.

Other issues, such as the expiry of more than $3, 000bn of Bush-era tax cuts, proved too contentious for any bipartisan consensus to emerge.

He talked about elevating the tone of the debate in our country. He talked about reaching out in a bipartisan fashion to the other side.

First, it's bipartisan.

And it was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by astrong bipartisan vote of 14-4.

Proposed a bipartisan plan to address the problem of climate change and stimulate the development and use of advanced technologies.

We will by these initiatives seek to strengthen an emerging bipartisan consensus on how best to secure our nation.

There are bipartisan plans that do this.

"It's important for them to remember it's bipartisan. "