Sentences with phrase «who reached across the aisle»
«During her eight year tenure as Southampton Town Supervisor, Anna established herself as a no - nonsense executive who reached across the aisle to cut wasteful spending, audit the budget, and eliminate inefficiencies so taxpayer dollars could be focused where they were needed most,» Cuomo said.
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At some point you can reach across the aisle and engage someone else who is not like you.
«John Katko is someone who is going to reach across the aisle and try to move this country forward, and I think the voters saw that,» said Dadey.
«We've got to work together, we've got to reach across the aisle,» Carlucci said, who was pushing an amendment to the constitution to guarantee a clean environment.
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.
Trippi, who served as the campaign manager for Gov. Howard Dean's bid for the White House, also said he believed that Obama was genuinely interested in bipartisanship but that Republicans are not likely to respond to Obama's efforts to reach across the aisle.
The GOP has helped fuel Cuomo's self - styled image as a Solomonic centrist who, while Washington is gridlocked, reaches across the aisle to get stuff done.
When I arrived in Washington, I reached across the aisle to come up with a plan to raise the mileage standards in our cars for the first time in 30 years — a plan that won support from Democrats and Republicans who had never supported raising fuel standards before.
[applause] And I reached across the aisle to come up with a plan to raise the mileage standards in our cars for the first time in thirty years - a plan that won support from Democrats and Republicans who had never supported raising fuel standards before.
When I arrived in Washington, I reached across the aisle to come up with a plan to raise the mileage standards in our cars for the first time in thirty years - a plan that won support from Democrats and Republicans who had never supported raising fuel standards before.