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...bureaucrats" is a partisan guess in an unreleased report by the Republican staff of the Senate Budget Committee. His biggest-spender-since-L.B.J. charge is more substantive. It is based on analysis by Carol Cox Wait of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan watchdog group. Wait compared the inflation-adjusted costs of various programs over the past 35 years to arrive at her conclusions. She concluded what she did about Gore, but she also concluded this: Bush's own spending plan would amount to the second largest increase since L.B.J...
Bush argued that he would change the tone of Washington through his leadership and make both parties work together, which he said has not happened during the Clinton-Gore administration. He bragged about his reputation in Texas governing circles as a bipartisan consensus-maker...
...first 2000 presidential debate reaffirmed the wisdom of the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates in requiring that the candidates address each other in a formal setting. Although evasive answers and vague generalities were legion, the debate effectively exposed the two major candidates' often-inscrutable differences and ability to think on their feet. We hope that future debates will at least maintain last night's albeit inconsistent sophistication and breadth...
...ticket to the debate, but the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) had already decided that the Green Party candidate would never get through security...
...before. In the spring of 1996, as Clinton was running for re-election against Bob Dole, gasoline prices shot up 20% in some states. Dole proposed repealing Clinton's 1993 gas-tax increase, and three days later the President responded. He seized on an obscure part of a bipartisan deficit-reduction bill and spun it as a relief measure for motorists. On a campaign trip to Florida, a state he had lost in 1992, the President announced that he had ordered the sale of 12 million bbl. from the SPR because the "rise in the price of gasoline...affects...