Sentences with phrase «backed bipartisan efforts»

Hawkins said that if the Governor was serious about the 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda he announced 18 months ago in his 2013 State of the State address, he would have backed bipartisan efforts to vote on the nine parts that have overwhelming majority support in both houses and then focus on flipping the Senate to Democratic hands to get the tenth abortion rights point adopted.

Whitman has backed bipartisan efforts since leaving office in 2001 and faced opposition from Republican conservatives when she pressed for a moderate voice in the GOP in her essay, «It's My Party, Too.»

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Schumer's backing of decriminalization adds to what has become a bipartisan effort in the Senate, led by Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, which was the first state to legalize recreational marijuana.