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We had hoped the hearings would be finished by the end of the year. However, we have tremendous confidence in Sen. Specter, who handled Chief Justice Roberts' confirmation process so well. We are encouraged by the bipartisan momentum that has set the vote on the Senate floor for January 20th. Dana Perino
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The 9/11 Commission Report underscores the need for an all-out, comprehensive and bipartisan effort to defeat terrorism and improve homeland security. Jim Ramstad
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The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems. Marsha Blackburn
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The president called for a bipartisan commission on Social Security in his State of the Union address, which I recommended he do last year -- but if he were serious about it, he would have left Social Security privatization out of his budget. Charles Schumer
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The problem with congressional perks is that both parties love them. The congressional perk caucus is bipartisan and strong.
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We are in a situation where we need strong bipartisan support in the United States to try to deal with these problems, ... Our highest priority is to make sure a weapon of mass destruction is not used here or anywhere. Richard Gephardt
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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.
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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, George Allen
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There's strong bipartisan concern that this growing trade deficit with China is a serious problem. Robert Scott
bipartisan coalition power
Don't underestimate the power of our bipartisan coalition in the House,
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This congress has tried to work in a bipartisan way, ... We need good faith efforts and results, not roadblocks. Kay Granger
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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. Tim Phillips
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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. Sam Brownback
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You start out with pick a few good simple things to get done, build trust, build that bipartisan feeling if you can, Dennis Hastert
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There's a clear consensus that we should give (undocumented workers) a path to citizenship. There's bipartisan support.
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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. Harold Ford, Jr.
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The Bush administration must appoint a special prosecutor to examine these abuses, and Congress should set up an independent, bipartisan panel to investigate.
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The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out George Carlin
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We felt very strongly that we needed a more bipartisan approach.
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We are trying to work through the concerns that have been raised and trying to reach a bipartisan consensus. Andrew Gray
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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. Larry Craig
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The fact that you have now questioned my sincerity ... is regrettable but does not in any way diminish my deep respect for you nor my willingness to find a bipartisan solution to this problem. Barack Obama
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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. Tom Daschle
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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.
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It's pretty obvious that we showed fiscal restraint here in Nevada when we had a $300 million bipartisan tax rebate,
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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.
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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. Jo Bonner
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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.
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There's a very decisive bipartisan flavor to this vote, Arlen Specter
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Instead of leading the country to bipartisan comprehensive reform, ... he runs more of a danger of putting gasoline on the fire.
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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 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. Ann Kirkpatrick
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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. Gene Sperling