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...order for Clinton to succeed and forge workable relationships with Congress, he will need to collaborate with Republicans and form bipartisan coalitions--something which, so far, he has been reluctant...
...programs Shapiro would gut are those that defray airlines' costs to expand terminals and payments to farmers whose commodities sell below set prices. To ensure that Congress doesn't pick and choose -- a process in which the strongest special interests would see their favored scams survive -- Shapiro wants a bipartisan commission whose recommendations Congress would have to accept "in toto or not at all. Spreading the pain, like the military base-closing committee did," he says, "is the best way to guarantee that the job is done right...
Asked how he would change if re-elected, Kennedy sold himself as a consensus builder who had recently "fashioned bipartisan coalitions," something that happens in Congress "when we're at out best...
Education is not so much a matter of party politics as a matter of leadership, Kennedy spokesperson Jim P. Manley said. "Senator Kennedy has worked in a bipartisan fashion with both Democrats and Representatives on the Labor Committee," he said...
Exasperated after the close of a Congress paralyzed by frequent Republican filibusters, a few Senate alumni have risen to take action -- and exact pledges of reform. Action, Not Gridlock, a bipartisan group, led by former Sens. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), wrote to this year's Senate candidates asking them to announce their support for a ban on filibusters. "Senators are elected to make decisions, not to block decision-making," it reads. Senate offices began kicking around the idea today, although no official responses emerged...