Word: bipartisanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Church's influence is also challenged by a new unity among the committee's Republicans. For the first time, they have decided to form a minority staff of their own. The Republicans think that Carters foreign policy is weak and confused and that bipartisanship−not much in evidence for a long time−is useless. At a meeting of some 100 top G.O.P. officeholders earlier this month in Easton, Md., bipartisanship in foreign policy was dismissed as both a myth and out of date. Republican opposition to Carter places Church in the awkward political position of seeming...
...Republican Tidewater Conference, hyperbole crept into the resolutions ("Decay of American influence and the decline of American military power"); but there was a fact of Government life underlying what Senator Howard Baker characterized as the abandonment of "traditional bipartisanship in foreign policy." As the likelihood of a bruising and even bloody debate over the SALT 11 treaty approaches, politicians and technicians in both parties who support the treaty by itself are now questioning SALT II because of perceived Soviet advances around the world, and the U.S. failure to counter them successfully. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for one, believes...
...bipartisanship was reflected in House votes for heavy defense spending. The House authorized $26.5 billion for research, development and purchase of new military weapons in fiscal 1976, up 27% from the spending for the current fiscal year and only modestly lower than Ford's original request. Congressmen also overwhelmingly rejected a proposed 70,000-man reduction in the 416,500 U.S. troops stationed overseas. Said Illinois Democratic Representative Abner Mikva: "I'd love to get our troops out of South Korea, but not this year. This year I'm afraid it would be perceived by the North...
...Peter Rodino's committee had eased after it had irrevocably cast the die of impeachment on July 27 by approving Article I, which charged Nixon with obstruction of justice in the Watergate coverup. Yet there were spirited exchanges last week as the committee's deliberations resumed. The bipartisanship reached its peak as seven Republicans joined all 21 Democrats to approve Article II, which accused Nixon of abusing the powers of his office and failing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Illinois Republican Robert McClory supported the article, adding his name to the six other Republicans...
...degree of bipartisanship in the Judiciary Committee vote was larger than had been expected, and it effectively rebutted the increasingly shrill claims from White House officials that the impeachment inquiry was a highly partisan "witch hunt" and that the committee amounted to "a kangaroo court." The range of Republican support for impeachment, embracing the Midwest's Harold Froehlich and Tom Railsback, the South's M. Caldwell Butler, the East's Hamilton Fish and New England's William Cohen, may well influence wavering Republicans when the full House acts on the committee's recommendation. The influential roles played in the committee...