Sentences with phrase «reached across the aisle on»

Gillibrand supporters note she has reached across the aisle on a number of bills, including the 9/11 health bill.

Senator Lindsay Graham has reached across the aisle on climate policy, pursuing legislation with a Democratic Senator to put a price on carbon pollution.

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As the Democrats appear to be slowly losing their grip on the majority (despite their claims to the contrary), Conference Leader John Sampson is reaching across the aisle to his GOP counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, and proposing a post-election spirit of cooperation for the Nov. 29 lame duck session.

At the same time, Cuomo praised Republicans, saying they enabled him to reach across the aisle and end government gridlock on the budget.

The 23 - minute speech was light on specific policy proposals, but returned often to a theme of opening up state government and reaching across the aisle.

But overall, he was a big critic of President Obama's, and other than on that one issue I never saw him reach across the aisle.

The event has been a forum for the men to highlight their ability to reach across the aisle, speak on the progress of bills winding through Congress and the region's needs.

Since then, Maloney has focused on building a record as a pragmatist who is willing to both vote against his party when necessary and reach across the aisle to work with Republicans to get things done.

A consensus across the aisle appears to have been reached on increased funding for aging water systems, boosting tuition assistance, and allowing the spread of ride hailing services into upstate cities.

Rush Holt, chief operating officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called on Congress to continue to reach across the aisle to finalize its work on fiscal 2018 spending and resist additional short - term funding measures — the latest continuing resolution was the fourth of the current fiscal year.

By reaching across the aisle, taking an aggressive, pro-growth, bipartisan approach to this problem, and drawing on resources from both the public and private sectors, we believe that Congress and the Obama administration can begin to effectively tackle the economic crisis and national energy insecurity in tandem.

The reason there aren't more bad air quality days like this for Aaron and for millions of others was because, in 1970, Republicans on one side of the aisle and Democrats on the other side of the isle reached their hands across the partisan divide to create the Clean Air Act.