Sentences with phrase «in a bipartisan fashion»

It's an administration that works in a bipartisan fashion for the people.
There is no backing away from the intent to work on individual issues in a bipartisan fashion doing what's best for the people of the State or for a specific geographic region.
There also is a perception that women tend to work in bipartisan fashion more often than men — both inside and outside the legislative chambers.
«If we're going to work in a bipartisan fashion, we're going to work with people who we respect but have respectful disagreements with,» he said.
«I've worked in a bipartisan fashion in the best interests of the taxpayers of Erie County,» said Loughran.
«I have great faith in the ability of the Senator from Tennessee, Lamar Alexander, the Senator from Washington, Patty Murray, and others to work together in a bipartisan fashion to craft a bill that increases competition, lowers costs, and improves care for the American people,» he said.
The most recent major example at the federal level is the NCLB reauthorization known as the Every Student Succeeds Act or ESSA, a sprawling, compromise measure that was wrought in bipartisan fashion by Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray and signed in December by President Obama.
«It's an example of legislation supported in a bipartisan fashion stymied by the Republicans who would not allow it to come to the floor for a vote,» Kennedy said.
«It should alarm voters that Colleen Deacon could not think of a single issue where she would break from Nancy Pelosi to work in a bipartisan fashion for Central New York.
And Cuomo is clearly comfortable with legislating in a bipartisan fashion.
Cuomo was pretty happy to have a GOP - controlled state Senate; depending on which way he wanted to tack at a given moment, he could claim credit for negotiating with Republicans in bipartisan fashion or blame them for killing liberal legislation he might not have loved anyway.
«And working on behalf of my constituents in a bipartisan fashion really in a whole dramatic new way in Albany.»
«We stand ready to work with the president - elect's administration and Republican as well as Democratic policymakers in a bipartisan fashion to harness the power of science and technology in service of society,» Holt said.
Senate lawmakers are working on their own version of No Child Left Behind in a bipartisan fashion, with hopes of heading to conference later this year.
«We look forward to continuing to work closely with government in a bipartisan fashion around the development of this plan as it is vitally important that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their representative bodies are involved in all aspects of addressing their health needs.»
«I believe that with the governor's leadership, we can work together in a bipartisan fashion to build upon the successes of the last legislative session to enable New York state to reach its full potential,» Valesky said.
«There's a lot of talk the way Albany politics works... But what we have focused on is governing in that bipartisan fashion, and when the results are what they have been, it's difficult to imagine why we would move in another direction at this point in time,» Valesky said.
While its director says it will «direct support in a bipartisan fashion,» it remains to be seen if an individual who was once the state's most powerful Republican will put much effort into electing Democrats.
Gibson in turn speaks to his «moderate» record of attempting to address major issues in a bipartisan fashion in a sharply divided House of Representatives.
The Senate reauthorization bill, known as the Every Child Achieves Act, passed unanimously and in a bipartisan fashion in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on April 16.
«It should alarm voters that Colleen Deacon could not think of a single issue where she would break from Nancy Pelosi to work in a bipartisan fashion for central New York,» NRCC spokesman Chris Pack said.
Funke expressed the Senate Republicans» desire to continue working in a bipartisan fashion to deliver the fifth on - time state budget in a row.
«Sen. Gillibrand has shown that it is possible for elected officials to work in a bipartisan fashion to do what's best for your constituents.
If the Republicans take back the majority, they might not be so keen to work with him in a bipartisan fashion if he keeps this up, although so far, his support has come only in the form of endorsements — not TV ads and not campaign cash.
I am happy to be part of a diverse coalition of councilmembers and look forward to working with them in a bipartisan fashion on behalf of the working and middle class families in my district and throughout the five boroughs.»
He said the independent Democrats would work more closely with the Republicans in the Senate «in a bipartisan fashion
De Blasio responded to Cuomo's comments by saying, «If we're going to work in a bipartisan fashion, we're going to work with people who we respect but have respectful disagreements with.»
«You should know that we're going to pass this week in Washington a budget deal — looks nothing like what the president wanted, by the way — but a bunch of us, in a bipartisan fashion, are going to pass a budget deal that will include a lot more money for heroin treatment programs, prevention programs,» Maloney said.
At the same time for the last four years I have been a member of the Independent Democratic Conference that has produced real results for New Yorkers by working in a bipartisan fashion.
«This coalition has proved we can govern in a bipartisan fashion,» said Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx), ticking off the wins: raising the minimum wage, passing the nation's toughest gun control law, and helping small business.
Assemblyman Karim Camara, chair of the Black, Puerto Rican Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus, told me on CapTon last night that he «commends anyone who wants to work in a bipartisan fashion,» but just can't get comfortable with the fact that there would be no people of color — not to mention very few women — in positions of significant power if the power - sharing agreement Sen. Jeff Klein is pushing comes to pass.
«Senate Republicans have proven that we can work in a bipartisan fashion to successfully control spending, provide meaningful tax relief and help the private sector create new jobs.»
Klein said at the time that they would be independent from the GOP Senators, as well, but pledged to work closely with the Republicans, «in a bipartisan fashion».
«Regardless if there's an opponent against me, I still plan to work in a bipartisan fashion,» he said.
Klein said at the time that they would be independent from the GOP senators as well, but pledged to work closely with them «in a bipartisan fashion
This willingness to work in a bipartisan fashion is one of things of which I have been most proud and something that sets us apart from many other legislative bodies.
This administration works in a bipartisan fashion.
To spend two years, or over a year, coming up with charter changes working in a bipartisan fashion and you throw it away because some blogger that lives in his mom's attic is intimidating elected officials these days is disgusting and cowards to those who worked on this project and then decided to yield to some blogger that is telling them how to vote.
He said now, the Independent Democrats would work more closely with the Republicans in the Senate «in a bipartisan fashion
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