Sentences with word «bipartisanship»

Education hasn't seen a lot of bipartisanship of late, at least not in Washington.

Morahan was popular with members on both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans alike remembered him fondly as someone who embodied the old spirit of bipartisanship in Albany, where lawmakers of opposing views and political affiliations fought hard on the Senate floor and on the campaign trial, but then laid aside their differences and went out for drinks at the end of the day.

Early in his address, Astorino made a plea for bipartisanship in the county in a time of increasingly hostile political dialogue.

What vestiges remained of bipartisanship on education in Washington has been buried.

Washington (CNN)- Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia on Sunday classified Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's views on bipartisanship as «wacky.»

Let's not mistake attempts at bipartisanship for a willingness to back down.

Cuomo, who has taken an increasingly arched view of Trump in his public comments, criticized the federal tax law that passed in December and said it was inconsistent to want bipartisanship in Washington when approving a tax law that the governor believes disproportionately hurts Democratic states.

«Tonight, New Yorkers have chosen balance and bipartisanship over an entire state government made up of Democrats from New York City, and placed their trust in Republicans to lead the Senate,» Republican conference leader Dean Skelos said in a statement.

The President murmurs about bipartisanship in education.

Immigration reform, which once garnered bipartisanship support in the Senate a few years ago, has wilted as American - born workers battle lower - paid immigrants for vanishing low - wage jobs.

Romney is doing positive ads whose theme can be best summed up as «cooperation for solving problems through bipartisanship like I did in Massachusetts» The ad is well produced, but it doesn't really work for me.

Yeah, nothing says bipartisanship like saying your political opponents should be burned by acid.

Democrat Doug Jones of Alabama was sworn into office Wednesday, shrinking the Senate's Republican majority and leading lawmakers of both parties to plead for more bipartisanship as Congress tackles pressing issues in advance of the 2018 midterm elections...

(District of Columbia) In what may prove the single largest showing of bipartisanship during the entire two terms of the Obama administration, Congress is poised to approve a sweeping rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

I can't see any reason to bother with bipartisanship when they are only willing to be part of the problem.

He also noted in a letter to Sampson that appears below that he is indeed making good on his pledge of bipartisanship by offering three Democrats committee chairmanships.

People just feel like Obama is not doing what he was elected to do - that when he promised bipartisanship that meant he would work with the other side - to hammer out CENTRIST POLICIES.

She said bipartisanship intuitively makes sense for coherence and continuity.

Why is the term bipartisanship even in anything but a historical dictionary?

In the run - up to 2008, Mitt Romney's record on health - care reform was thought to be a hole card that would give him a record of conservative - minded accomplishment in the primaries and a patina of can - do bipartisanship in a general election.

But in Rochester on Wednesday, Cuomo once again embraced bipartisanship after he was asked whether any legislation could be accomplished in the remaining legislative session days this year.

(CNN)-- Fresh off his Republican primary victory Tuesday, Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said he doesn't anticipate successful compromise in the Senate and hopes bipartisanship will be defined as Democrats backing the Republican agenda following the 2012 elections.

That's not bipartisanship.

Retiring Representative Bart Gordon (D - TN), outgoing chairman of the House science committee, had spent 2 years crafting what he thought would be a bipartisan reauthorization bill, only to see it nearly fall apart as bipartisanship became an increasingly rare commodity in Congress.

(Recall that Kruger was the first — and only — Democrat to be given a committee chairmanship by Bruno is a show of supposed bipartisanship back in 2007).

SARANAC Bringing broadband to rural Clinton County, combating the opiate crisis and promoting bipartisanship at the county level.

If Congress does authorize the risk corridors, it will be yet more evidence that, when it comes to corporate welfare, bipartisanship still reigns.

Martins stressed bipartisanship and criticized both Trump and Clinton when he participated in an interview Wednesday with Jay Oliver on LI News Radio.

Cuomo says it's a perfect show of political bipartisanship as Washington remains shutdown.

Holt added, however, that «it always has been possible to find some bipartisan support for science,» and therefore «now is the time to build on that latent bipartisanship.»

But the Majority's willingness to walk away from bipartisanship in order to appease their own most ideologically driven Members, risks eroding support for NASA in general.

Trump included a call for greater bipartisanship on the sharp policy differences that divide Republicans and Democrats.

In response to the suggestion that he has the fervor and background to finesse such bipartisanship by serving as a sort of climate ambassador in Congress he answered: «I'd love to do that.»

It is only to say that Paterson must engage in a transparent and orderly process, with as much bipartisanship as he can muster, while maintaining firm hold on his authority.

«New Yorkers value bipartisanship, checks and balances and Democrats and Republicans working together to get things done,» Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif said.

The index measures bipartisanship using legislation sponsored and cosponsored by members of Congress and senators.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued a joint statement urging bipartisanship on both issues Sunday afternoon, but did not commit to anything outright.

Northam talked up bipartisanship in foolish pursuit of nonexistent swing voters and thereby demoralized the Democratic base.

Charlie Palmer is one of a handful of examples of dining bipartisanship on this list.

There is a hint of bipartisanship here — according to the Press Herald, Mills was recommended by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, the ranking member of the Senate Small Business Committee and long a close collaborator with the committee's Democrats.

«Entitlement reform always takes leadership at the presidential level, and it also takes — by the way, real reform takes bipartisanship.»

Hillary Clinton pitched herself as an example of «steady, experienced leadership» and bipartisanship Sunday, just hours after the Senate's Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, declined to say whether he thought Donald Trump was qualified to be president.

Bipartisanship means making compromises and tough choices for the good of the country as a whole, not paying off each other with trillions of dollars in goodies and passing the buck, leaving the nation weaker.

The Republican / Tea Party constantly concentrates on the issues that are so very important to «the few» (1 %) and tries to propagandize them to con the majority (99 %) and get them excited, while they continually fail to address the major problems (just faulting, blocking, withholding bipartisanship and irresponsibly putting their political ambitions above all else).

Now that control of the majority is hanging in the balance, the Brooklyn senator reasoned, it would be a good time to practice a little bipartisanship.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. John Katko made his latest show of bipartisanship Tuesday night when he sat with Democrats at President Obama's State of the Union address.

«I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy and get America moving again,» Mourdock said Wednesday on CNN's «Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien.»

Cuomo «sold his soul to the Working Families» Party for its endorsement and its «radical agenda» that will kill Albany's newfound bipartisanship, Skelos said.