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We would certainly urge the governor to veto this bill, because this greatly upsets the bipartisan air quality planning process that was created 15 years ago. We think it's unneeded.

There is a bipartisan effort, a bipartisan willingness to provide assistance. ... We'll consult with the administration ... to try to meet some of that need in the coming days,

We thought it would be close. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would be this close, ... I have the greatest confidence in the independently elected bipartisan group of county supervisors of elections that exist all across our state.

Women in New Jersey and across the country should be very proud of Rep. Rothman for leading this bipartisan effort to provide commonsense, compassionate care to rape survivors in the emergency room. When it comes to solving serious problems like unintended pregnancy, Americans want answers from their elected officials, not silence. I stand proudly with Congressman Rothman in calling on Speaker Hastert to allow a vote on his legislation without further delays.

The president's package is a good package. We're going to work on a bipartisan basis.

The governor's experience was he could not successfully negotiate bipartisan reform budget reform in particular because the CTA did not allow legislative leaders to come to an agreement,

What we are seeing this Earth Day is nothing less than a grassroots renaissance as more and more Americans speak up for preservation of wilderness. Across America, ordinary people are getting together, rolling up their sleeves to work collaboratively on these proposals. Because this is happening from the ground up, they are finding workable solutions that draw broad, bipartisan public support.

What the governor has done is make it OK to talk about investing for our future. Whether you agree with the details, there's now a bipartisan discussion about our future needs - that's huge.

We will work to make the broken places right again. We will rebuild New York. We will work on a bipartisan package to strengthen the economy, ... will help unemployed workers in the airline, aerospace, tourist and other industries affected by the attack.

We felt very strongly that we needed a more bipartisan approach.

We expect this bill to have strong bipartisan support and since it was introduced by the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member, it will have the legs to move through Committee quickly.

We are trying to work through the concerns that have been raised and trying to reach a bipartisan consensus.

We have every hope that it will pass, because it's a bipartisan bill, it's comprehensive, and it has the support of Republicans and Democrats who are respected on this issue in both chambers.

Bob showed not only a care for reforming these laws and improving the juvenile justice system, but also taking ideas -- there were just a few -- that the other side had to work in a very bipartisan manner to come up with these changes,

Blue Dogs have always acted in a bipartisan way. The Blue Dogs were the group in the Democratic side of the aisle that really pushed for the welfare-reform package that ultimately was signed into law in 1996.

Don't underestimate the power of our bipartisan coalition in the House,

There's strong bipartisan concern that this growing trade deficit with China is a serious problem.

There's lots of signs of the growing drumbeat for reform. We think there is a bipartisan majority with presidential leadership that can actually get across the finish line this session.

The state's hiring of a bipartisan lobby team helped us secure $5 billion in additional federal funding for Texas.

Privacy is high on the list of bipartisan bills with support in both houses. There is a chance to do something that is both bipartisan and balanced.

Our customer base isn't just people saying, 'I'm an environmentalist, I'm in my Birkenstocks, I went to Woodstock.' Solar is a bipartisan technology. Republicans like solar; conservatives like solar. Over 30% of our customers are veterans. There's something very American about being able to produce power on your own rooftop.

After over three decades of implementation the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has recovered 10 of roughly 1300 listed species nationwide, ... The current law is just not working. TESRA is an innovative approach with bipartisan support that will turn the conflict under ESA into cooperation and refocus the law on actually recovering species. We can and must do better.

Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.

So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.

not yet arrived at a product that we can present to this body that is a bipartisan proposal.

The Bush administration must appoint a special prosecutor to examine these abuses, and Congress should set up an independent, bipartisan panel to investigate.

Al Gore is running more than $60 million in attack ads, making his campaign the most negative in history. When it comes to experience, America can't afford Al Gore's experience of raising taxes, increasing the size of government, opposing bipartisan Medicare and Social Security reform, and not making education a priority.

You start out with pick a few good simple things to get done, build trust, build that bipartisan feeling if you can,

You may see some fine-tuning of the president's program to make it more effective, to actually get more bang for the buck. But I think you'll see broad bipartisan support for targeting tax cuts and investment incentives and aid to the states and unemployed, to kind of provide us an insurance policy to get job creation moving.

This is bipartisan legislation that has the best chance of passing Congress this year and becoming law before next November's elections. Time is of the essence.

This could have been a bipartisan bill, but the White House squandered that opportunity, ... Instead, what we have is a Republican bill, a bill that will now go into an endless conference committee. This is exactly what the HMOs want.

This congress has tried to work in a bipartisan way, ... We need good faith efforts and results, not roadblocks.

This is a bipartisan problem, and this is not a pie-in-the-sky thing, some giant reform. We have to stop it if we're ever going to get our budget under control.

This is a bipartisan effort to support ethanol. President Bush said we're addicted to oil. He's right.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

This is a bipartisan effort, ... This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work,

There was real progress today, enormous progress today. We knew from the beginning that you need a bipartisan proposal in order to pass the Senate. That appears to be what the Judiciary Committee is proposing.

There's a clear consensus that we should give (undocumented workers) a path to citizenship. There's bipartisan support.

There's a clear bipartisan consensus behind a temporary-worker program. Now comes the more difficult task of actually doing something about it.

There's a bipartisan majority in favor of reform, and there's a president who says he's willing to sign it. And if they cannot figure out how to get from here to there, shame on them.

This matter was examined fully by the bipartisan Silberman-Robb commission, and the president acted on their broad recommendations to reform our intelligence apparatus.

There's a very decisive bipartisan flavor to this vote,

At least two senators that I heard with my own ears cited this as a reason why they decided to vote to not allow a bipartisan majority to reauthorize the Patriot Act. Well, as it turns out the author of this article turned in a book three months ago and the paper, The New York Times, failed to reveal that the urgent story was tied to a book release and its sale by its author.

A big, bipartisan vote sends a message to the Iraqis and the White House. It's very, very significant.

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It is our view and we believe it's the view of the American people that this investigation be done as quickly as humanly possible, ... Given this will ... the choice is clear. We can resolve on a bipartisan effort to do the work that needs to be done in the next 30 days in the House or we might face two years of ongoing hearings.

I told him that if he ran (for governor) his bipartisan honeymoon as mayor would come to an end and partisanship would dominate quickly.

It's pretty obvious that we showed fiscal restraint here in Nevada when we had a $300 million bipartisan tax rebate,

It's on the top of the agenda. We've got strong bipartisan support. We want to make sure the legislation is right, especially with constitutional issues.

Congress must reauthorize all of the expiring sections of the Voting Rights Act. This renewal must happen without changes that would weaken the law's original intent, to ensure that minorities have equal and unhindered access to the ballot box. Reauthorization of the act is a truly bipartisan effort. People of all political stripes agree that every American should have their right to vote guaranteed.

Congressman Sensenbrenner needs to do what's right for Americans and agree to let the bipartisan Senate bill pass promptly.

The bipartisan campaign to sabotage BRAC was about putting special interests before the national interest. Sen. Chambliss helped rescue a process that will save taxpayers billions of dollars and will allow the military to restructure to meet modern threats.

The agreement today demonstrated bipartisan momentum to move this very important vote forward by Jan. 20.

It's a missed opportunity. Had it gone through, he could begin to rebuild his image as a bipartisan problem-solver. He can still do that, but as the year wears on, partisan conflict will make that harder.

It looked like there was so much bipartisan support for the COLA, I didn't think anybody wanted to make it a major, controversial issue.

It's time for America to rally behind a bipartisan agenda that means jobs and growth and billions of dollars of new capital spending.

It's time to act on these common-sense pieces of legislation. They have broad bipartisan support in the Legislature.

I want the president to succeed more than you can imagine. Because if his policy fails ... we are going to pay a terrible price. ... And I don't quite get it why you would not do this in a bipartisan way.

They bombarded the council, the Secretary of Commerce, and engaged a bipartisan group of legislators from the Central Valley and Coastal counties to support salmon fishing. It was an unprecedented show of force and solidarity.

The vote is a shot across the bow in terms of the Justice Department and how it conducts itself, in terms of upcoming Supreme Court nominations, and the push-and-pull within the Bush administration. Will it be bipartisan or will it be pulled to the right?

The U.S. Congress can do a lot to support America's workplaces and the family. By working together in a bipartisan fashion, we can ensure our constituents get jobs they need while helping employers make smart decisions about their workforce.

The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.

It's not an approach we support. We'd prefer that lawmakers concentrate on issues on which there is more bipartisan agreement.

At the same time, this was a judgment made based on a very broad bipartisan sense that the American public needed to have this information and they needed to have it immediately,

As you may be aware, the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by the President on January 8, 2002. I was happy to support this bill, which was the result of months of intense bipartisan negotiations. This legislation sets the stage for a limited, but productive, role for the federal government in the education of our nation's children.

The message I heard this morning, ... was a plea -- a very strong bipartisan plea that he take this issue to the American people and to the Congress in a straight up, forthright way for all of us to debate it and for our country to understand it.

The few minor changes that the White House agreed to do not address the major problems with the Patriot Act that a bipartisan coalition has been trying to fix for the past several years. We've come too far and fought too hard to agree to a few insignificant changes.

The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to manage weather related risks. The challenge of developing such an approach is complex: It must not only encompass all levels of government but must also be developed in a bipartisan manner.

The choice is very clear -- either a partisan brinksmanship or a bipartisan accomplishment, ... We can't see a partisan standoff on an issue this important.

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

In both cases, he did it with very strong bipartisan backing. But they wrongly and foolishly extrapolated from the recall and the Prop. 57-58 and 66 campaigns that this guy was a masterful campaigner who could sell ice to Eskimos and could sell pork pies in a synagogue.

I'm confused by their comments. There's a bipartisan consensus among New Jersey lawmakers that the Bush administration should release this money. The only two people who think that New Jersey should not get its fair share of highway dollars are George Bush and Tom Kean Jr.

I'm cautiously optimistic. I think we can see a path to a bipartisan bill.

Instead of leading the country to bipartisan comprehensive reform, ... he runs more of a danger of putting gasoline on the fire.

in strong bipartisan fashion to approve these additional emergency funds.

I recognize that we also need more bipartisan cooperation to make it all happen, ... And I promise I will deliver that, because Californians believe that the state is on the wrong track. Californians believe that we need reform, we need change. But the people of California are sick and tired of all the fighting, and they are sick and tired of all those negative TV ads.

I pledge right here working with the president that we will work in a bipartisan basis ... to enact in 1999 the right savings and the right steps to reform the system for the baby boomers and their children,

In the months ahead, he needs to pick his fights more carefully and show that he can still be a bipartisan problem-solver on at least some issues.

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In Texas, Gov. Bush has a proven record on his ability to work in a bipartisan fashion to enact a patients' bill of rights, to increase funding and resources for education and achieve the two biggest tax cuts in the history of Texas.

In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of leading by example, I returned 5 percent of my paycheck every month to pay down the debt.

Christopher is grateful for the support of so many people from around the district. Their support means he can continue to focus on doing the job that he was elected to do: working on a bipartisan basis to represent the people of the fourth district, to strengthen congressional ethics rules, address our energy needs, get our financial house in order and conduct strong oversight.

If having a separate vote on tax cuts turns out to be a means of getting a bipartisan balanced-budget agreement, we're open to that.

I'd particularly like to thank you, the Legislature, for your outstanding bipartisan support of our efforts to protect our citizens.

I applaud Senator Feinstein and Governor Schwarzenegger who are part of the growing bipartisan coalition of leaders determined to give hope to patients and families suffering from chronic disease and injury. However, the Brownback bill in the United States Senate would prohibit a technique that allows critical patient-specific stem cell research. If passed, this would have overwhelming and devastating consequences to the advancement of medical science here in California and around the world, severely harming our research funding program in California and undermining the basic right of families in this country to gain access to ethical therapies to help their loved ones. We owe it to the future of California and the nation to follow the vision of hope for patients.

I am proud of the bipartisan process that produced this legislation. Corporate responsibility is an investor and retiree issue. It is not a partisan issue, and those who would attempt to make it so do a real disservice to all of us.

I do hope that when we in the Congress, both in this body -- when responsibilities come to the Senate -- and the other body, in the House of Representatives, there will be an approach which is bipartisan and nonpartisan in nature,

Governor Rell created the bipartisan Commission on Education Finance to find better, fairer ways of distributing state funds for local education. Everyone agrees that more fairness can be injected into the way grants are calculated, and Gov. Rell feels this Commission is the best approach for exploring all options.

Gov. Bush should follow the example set by his father and by Bob Dole and participate in the universally broadcast Presidential Commission debates. The American people come first, and the bipartisan Presidential Commission debates will reach the largest possible number of viewers.

The judge told him that it needed to have bipartisan support and be signed by the governor for the court to accept it.

Their biggest problem is developing some bipartisan way to deal with Iraq. They're still alternating between bipartisan rhetoric and impugning the patriotism of those who disagree with Bush. The daily bad news from Iraq doesn't help.

The unanimous nature of the Senate vote speaks volumes to the bipartisan support for property rights and eminent domain reform.

The truth is, the Senate Ethics Committee operates effectively and in a bipartisan fashion.

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations.

This is not about bankruptcy attorneys, it?s about consumers, ... This has had huge bipartisan support over three years.

The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.

And quite frankly, if we look at the makeup of the House and the Senate and the White House, if we don't have bipartisan help, it's almost impossible to see any program that benefits workers.

The Commission did a careful review of the role of the courts in serving children in foster care, and it issued a series of recommendations. We are grateful for this report and relied on many of their recommendations in crafting this legislation. As always, we hope to forge bipartisan consensus on ways to move this bill forward.