Sentences with phrase «working on a bipartisan basis»

Working on a bipartisan basis, we passed a budget giving minimum wage workers three raises over the next two - and - a-half years.

I look forward to working on a bipartisan basis with members of the Assembly to support passage of this critical legislation, SWAP, and acquire the necessary funding to upgrade our city's infrastructure,» said Troy City Council President Carmella Mantello.

«In the months ahead, I will continue to put our district first, working on a bipartisan basis to help grow our North Country small businesses, protect and strengthen our nation's military and family farms and to ensure everyone in the 21st District has a strong voice in Washington.»

Not exact matches

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

I urge this Congress to pursue a bipartisan, market - based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago.

If for some reason they actually do the right thing and work on bipartisan, incremental health care improvements, maybe they can campaign in 2018 on the basis of governance rather than emotion.

In the longer term, Obama will need to work on building a broad base of public support and on grassroots political pressure to change our political systems (especially in Congress) so that we can pass meaningful, bipartisan legislation on climate change.

We look forward to working with Chairman Goodlatte, Representative DeFazio and their colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee on a bipartisan basis in order to continue to ensure that American businesses are protected against aggressive, anticompetitive attacks by patent trolls in the future.