Sentences with phrase «working in a bipartisan fashion»
«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.
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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.»
Funke expressed the Senate Republicans» desire to continue working in a bipartisan fashion to deliver the fifth on - time state budget in a row.
There also is a perception that women tend to work in bipartisan fashion more often than men — both inside and outside the legislative chambers.
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.»
«Regardless if there's an opponent against me, I still plan to work in a bipartisan fashion,» he 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,» NRCC spokesman Chris Pack said.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
«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.
«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.
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.
He said the independent Democrats would work more closely with the Republicans in the Senate «in a bipartisan fashion.»
«He has shown an ability to work in a bipartisan and nonpartisan fashion to get things done.
«And working on behalf of my constituents in a bipartisan fashion really in a whole dramatic new way in Albany.»
«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 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.
If that's all they really care about, the best way to hold their jobs was to simply work closely with the president, fashioning budgetary compromises, designing bipartisan education reform legislation, and getting other governmental business in hand.
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.
Over the past year, congressional leaders have been working to rewrite the law in a bipartisan fashion — a process that has been increasingly rare in Washington — and the bill's fate was uncertain until three weeks ago, when lawmakers struck a deal and a final conference report moved swiftly through Congress.
«The inclusion of our industrial hemp amendment in the farm bill reflects widespread support for cultivating industrial hemp and proves Congress can work together in a bipartisan fashion to help the American economy at a time when creating jobs is a national priority.»
The budget reflects the fact that science advocacy matters, but it's also a reminder that we need to be vigilant in our work to depoliticize the issue of climate change and continue to work in strong bipartisan fashion to advance shared goals around clean energy deployment and innovation, as well as community resilience to extreme weather and other climate impacts.
Work, as much as possible, in a cross-party, bipartisan fashion that includes the greens and independents.
«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.»