Sentences with phrase «bipartisan consensus on»

There is a bipartisan consensus on this key principle: that providing assistance for those who can not afford a lawyer is a critical part of the justice system and essential to the integrity of the rule of law.

In just a few days, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman will release their much - anticipated proposal for comprehensive climate and energy legislation — the best remaining shot at forging a bipartisan consensus on this issue in 2010.

Congressional insiders report that the portion of the bill addressing education funding is the most contentious because it also includes funding for the new health care law; some suggest bipartisan consensus on this part of the bill won't be reached, requiring yet another temporary spending measure while negotiations continue.

The House last week passed the first of a series of bills Mr. Kline has introduced in an effort to rewrite the No Child law, but there has been no prospect for bipartisan consensus on a full rewrite in the House or the Senate.

Indeed, at the elite level, there's a bipartisan consensus on this question.

Indeed, at the elite level, there is bipartisan consensus on this question.

So, despite the extraordinary political divisions in the country, and after the damaging failures of policies like NCLB, we finally reached a strong bipartisan consensus on a way forward to improve public education in America.

But judging by the vote in Congress, it appears that a bipartisan consensus on education policy in Washington has, however briefly and for good or ill, been restored.

Republican State Senator Patty Ritchie, was the sponsor for the Senate version of the bill, which foreshadowed possible bipartisan consensus on the bill.

«We're going to have to reach a bipartisan consensus on how we need to do this,» Gibson said.»

There is no bipartisan consensus on solutions to the fundamental problems.

And in the past, lawmakers have been extremely slow to take up any type of gun control legislation, even when there's bipartisan consensus on things like background checks.

Moreover, the Senate recently reached bipartisan consensus on a bill to broaden and intensify current U.S. sanctions on select Russian entities and individuals, as well as provide Congress with additional powers to block the president from loosening sanctions in the future.

One of the genuinely unique policy ideas Donald Trump has brought to the national stage is a deep skepticism of the once - bipartisan consensus on free trade.

The process is intended to provide a more bipartisan consensus on judges who will serve in or represent a senator's home state when the president is of the opposition party, encouraging communication between the White House and home - state senators before a nomination.

The intent of the blue - slip process is to have a more bipartisan consensus on judges who will serve in or represent a senator's home state when the president is of the opposition party, encouraging communication between the White House and home - state senators before a nomination.

Not exact matches

«I would like to find a way — and I don't know what exactly that's going to be — how do we get bipartisan consensus to fix these looming, debt problems we've got on the horizon,» Ryan said.

But a total repeal of Obamacare, at least in the near term, is much easier said than done, and full replacement with new comprehensive legislation seems highly unlikely at this point in time, given that 60 Senate votes will be needed to do so, and Democrats and Republicans appear as far apart as ever in coming to a consensus on a bipartisan strategy to move forward.

While running for office, Trump either scrambled political categories (on issues such as health care), or took on the bipartisan consensus (on issues such as trade).

Whether than focusing solely on criminal actions by users, the focus has been on treatment — a bipartisan consensus.

Hard Lessons from NYC Contracts Public sector unions need to upend the bipartisan consensus and put raising taxes back on the table.

To avoid a collision course with taxpayers, public sector unions need to upend the bipartisan consensus and put raising taxes back on the table.

Our future depends on a bipartisan consensus about the value of consistent, dependable federal R&D budgets.

Some educational issues tend to spark large partisan rifts (for example, Common Core and teacher tenure), while a bipartisan consensus emerges on others (for instance, required testing of students).

By the end of that year, President Bush had forged a bipartisan consensus around the No Child Left Behind Act, which he signed into law on Jan. 8, 2002.

Today, an oil spike, coupled with rising oceans and powerful storms, is creating a bipartisan, pro-conservation consensus on energy policy.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)-- a bipartisan group of lawmakers — drafted the bill after finding a remarkable consensus among both parties in regards to the urgent need of — and solutions to — a fix of it's outdated No Child Left Behind (NCLB) counterpart.

Following up on my piece exploring the bipartisan consensus — hidden by polarized Republican - Democrat battles — on moving to smarter, more sustainable energy choices, I thought it worth posting the short Q&A here.

There has always been some degree of bipartisan consensus for protecting clean water and air, she claimed, even if there are disagreements on how exactly we should go about doing that.

ANNOUNCER: As the 2008 presidential campaign begins, a new bipartisan consensus has emerged on global warming.

But even with all the ornaments on what Mr. Book calls a «Christmas tree» bill, he still writes in his analysis that «Senator Graham's retreat from active support of the bill makes it harder for Senators Kerry and Lieberman to muster a bipartisan consensus.»

If it were somehow possible to strip away the overlay of angry political rhetoric — not to mention doing something about all the scientific misinformation that is constantly being broadcast and rebroadcast by the likes of Rush Limbaugh — a bipartisan political consensus on climate change might really be possible.

Insofar as there is a seed of a bipartisan consensus growing on that subject, may it be watered by the blessings of God and Adam Smith alike.

I invite a born - again oil industry to accelerate its rebirth by forging a bipartisan consensus to put a price on carbon emissions.

Following the bipartisan summit, Professor Patrick Dodson, Mr Noel Pearson, Professor Megan Davis, and Ms Kirstie Parker wrote to Prime Minister Abbott outlining a proposal for Indigenous conferences through which our people could reach a consensus on a model for constitutional change before the community conferences take place.

They were successful on these volatile issues only when they were able to craft a bipartisan consensus.