Sentences with phrase «of bipartisanship»

«I'm pleased to see that we got a good vote this week so far on immigration,» the president said, citing it as a rare example of bipartisanship in today's politics.

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.

In a rare display of bipartisanship, lawmakers from both political parties have started questioning how these tech giants grew so powerful so fast.

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.

(CNN)- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she feels a «spirit of pride» thinking back over the new administration's first 100 days, but House Minority Leader John Boehner said it's become clear to him that the idea of bipartisanship «was a ruse.»

«I saw what was going on up there in terms of bipartisanship and cooperation between the two conferences, and I said: Hey, let's do something different,» Isaacs said.

This is the first solid act of bipartisanship to date in the Senate on the reauthorization.

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.

The delayed signing of CETA, Canada's trade agreement with the European Union, should be seen as a triumph of bipartisanship in a world full of small - minded political sniping and nastiness.

Like other firms on this list, Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno is a paragon of bipartisanship.

Senator Moynihan said yesterday that the Governor also carried the tone of bipartisanship into this year's race for the United States Senate, in which Mark Green, a liberal Democrat, was seeking to unseat the Republican, Alfonse M. D'Amato.

The Senate proposal was negotiated by Republican Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Democrat Patty Murray of Washington in a rare stroke of bipartisanship.

Incidentally, John Thune, the senator Wadhams helped elect in 2004, was Gillibrand's date to the State of the Union last year, in the brief moment of bipartisanship that followed the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords.

Concerns about a rushed legislative process and lack of bipartisanship on healthcare, combined with President Trump's eagerness to be a dealmaker, raise the possibility that tax reform could be more successful than ACA repeal efforts.

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

The New York Times, which carries the news, calls it «a glimpse of bipartisanship.»

It's a rare burst of bipartisanship — three of the bills are from Republicans, one is from a Democrat.

The bill's proponents say it is an example of bipartisanship at its best.

Historically Divided: Why can't Republicans and Democrats just go back to the days of bipartisanship?

As an aside: After the tragic bipartisan budget bill was passed in February (this is yet another example of the dangers of bipartisanship), I sent a letter to the two Republican senators from North Carolina (one of whom voted for it), the NC GOP, and a handful of others.

Prominent House Republicans stepped forward with a vision of immigration policy that clashed fiercely with President Trump's recent overtures of bipartisanship and highlighted how difficult it will be for Congress and the president to reach accord in the coming weeks.

It has also flirted with majority Republicans in the chamber, giving them the sheen of bipartisanship on some issues, and a comforting cushion of votes.

«This offers us a the opportunity to take vitriol and nastiness out of the political environment and start a new era of bipartisanship, cleaning things up in Hempstead.

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.

Last year, despite all his claims of bipartisanship and insistence that he would support legislative candidates on a case - by - case basis, Bloomberg ended up choosing sides in the Senate fight again.

We'll also talk with Sens. Mark Warner and Dick Lugar about the state of bipartisanship in Congress and the unraveling of Syria.

WASHINGTON, D.C. A think tank affiliated with Georgetown University has released its annual rankings of bipartisanship in Congress.

The Senate play fit with Cuomo's core big - picture political vision — that Albany is now a model of bipartisanship — and the structure quickly paid dividends.

Senate Democrats are inching ever closer to pulling the trigger to limit the filibuster, even after a notable spate of bipartisanship in the chamber to pass the comprehensive immigration bill.

I pledged to be an independent voice for the North Country and will continue building on this record of bipartisanship to deliver results for the families I am proud to represent.»

«You're talking to the wrong guy if you think I'm going to be able to decipher the mayor's politics,» Mr. Cuomo, who often extolls the benefits of bipartisanship, told the Observer after helping out at a food pantry in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood.

There's a bit of bipartisanship in Katko's picks, as well.

Tell me - do you think Obama has adhered to his campaign promises of bipartisanship, post-partisanship, transparency and post-racial actions???

Elise Stefanik, he said, assured him she would bring the values of bipartisanship and working together to Washington.

(CNN)- A congressional tactic described as a «freight train» to run over the minority party could derail any hopes of bipartisanship with the Obama administration, some Republicans warn.

And that would take the sort of bipartisanship that's rare in an election year and almost never seen these days on Capitol Hill.

On December 14, 2016, in a rare move of bipartisanship, Obama signed into law the massive 21st Century Cures Act.

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

The changes and accomplishments that have taken place at the state (and sometimes federal) level would not have happened without a measure of bipartisanship.

Helped in part by a wave of bipartisanship that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the White House worked with Congress to pass a bill that laid out a much more muscular role for the federal government in education.

But critics, such as data - driven education - reform groups and civil - rights groups, have said that Harkin has watered down the bill so much in the name of bipartisanship that it would be better to go back to the drawing board and forgo the small window of opportunity this rewrite has of reaching the President's desk.

(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.

Tax cuts are certainly a major focus for Republicans and increased infrastructure spending could be the one area of bipartisanship in Washington.