The Senate's version of the Whistleblower Protection Act ( S. 274 ), which has significant bipartisan support, was approved by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on June 13, 2007.

With colleagues Norman Mineta, Leon Panetta and Dick Gephardt, he was part of “ The Gang of Four ” on the House Budget Committee challenging the budget process with bipartisan budget ideas, and developing a high technology and alternative budget in 1982.

On September 11, 1998, the Senate Banking Committee approved a bipartisan bill with unanimous Democratic member support that, like the House-passed bill, would have repealed Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32.

Ultimately the CIA, the US military, and their contract employees tortured untold thousands at Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and secret black site prisons scatttered around the globe, according to a bipartisan U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee report.

Prime Minister Andrew Fisher accepted the idea in 1910, and the following year Parliament established a bipartisan committee of six political leaders — the Historic Memorials Committee.

As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he asserted that " politics stops at the water's edge ," and cooperated with the Truman administration in forging bipartisan support.

The effort urged a bipartisan 12-member Joint Congressional Committee on Deficit Reduction ( Super Committee ) with finding an additional $ 1. 5 trillion in deficit reduction by November 23rd.

He is also a member of the Constitution Project's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee.

This bipartisan, widely-supported legislation has twice been approved by the Senate Finance Committee.

Kentucky state biographer Amy Witherbee commented on Rogers service, “ Rogers ' multiple roles on the Appropriations Committee have honed his skills as a bipartisan negotiator, and his economically challenged district often prompts him to stray from hard-line conservative stances.

In March 2003, Rogers ' ability to work through the bipartisan tangles of the Appropriations Committee won him the chairmanship on the subcommittee designated to control funding for the new Department of Homeland Security ,” noted Witherbee.

Pelosi appointed him to the 12-member bipartisan Committee on Deficit Reduction with a mandate for finding major budget reductions by late 2011.

Delahunt was a member of the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee ; Judiciary Committee ; and also served as co-chair of the bipartisan Coast Guard Caucus, House Older Americans Caucus, and the Congressional Working Group on Cuba.

He is also a member of the Constitution Project's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee.

This same year, Fulani and former National Alliance editor Jacqueline Salit formed the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, an organization dedicated to bringing various independent groups together to challenge the bipartisan nature of American politics.

As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he asserted that " politics stops at the water's edge " and cooperated with the Truman administration in forging bipartisan support.

The Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf ( CPSG ) was a " bipartisan group whose members are prominent in U. S. international policy circles ....

On Thursday, September 22, Roberts ' nomination was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by a bipartisan vote of 13-5.

He is currently a member of the Constitution Project's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee.

The Committee continues to operate in a bipartisan manner, passing almost all of its legislation out of the Committee unanimously.

The House Ethics Committee, in a bipartisan letter, stated the travel was permissible under House ethics rules.

Wyden voted against the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, a Republican effort to restrict the number of class actions suits against businesses and the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, a bipartisan change in bankruptcy law designed to make it more difficult to file for bankruptcy and to make those in bankruptcy pay more of their debts.

Laffoon's bipartisan alliance also passed a governmental reorganization bill that reduced the number of state commissions and departments from 69 to 24, cutting several jobs from the state payroll.

Slater was able to muster bipartisan support in congress for his projects including:

Various proposals have been put forth for tax simplification in the United States, including the FairTax and various flat tax plans and bipartisan tax reform proposals.

In that position, he cooperated with the Truman administration in forging bipartisan support for the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO, including presenting the critical Vandenberg resolution.

In this capacity, Shaw coordinated activities by the delegation including bipartisan delegation meetings.

Cisneros has also been author, editor or collaborator in several books, including Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation, a project with the late former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp ; Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy was presented the Common Purpose Award for demonstrating the potential of bipartisan cooperation ; and Casa y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design, a publication that took the first-ever look at the growing and increasingly prosperous U. S. Latino community and its housing needs, was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal in the category of best business book of 2006.

Voter-conscious Illinois Democrats and Whigs ( including Abraham Lincoln ) passed a bipartisan city-state charter for Nauvoo in 1840.

He passed this budget with bipartisan support, gaining praise from members of both parties, including the ranking Democrat on the budget committee.

In 1971 a bipartisan congressional group, including Senators Ted Kennedy, William A. Steiger, and Walter Mondale, proposed a national, independent Legal Services Corporation ; at the same time, administration officials such as Attorney General John N. Mitchell and chief domestic advisor John Ehrlichman were proposing their own somewhat similar solution.

The bipartisan alliance succeeded in enacting several measures to benefit education, including establishing a Council on Public Higher Education, extending the school year to six " or more " months, and mandating school attendance until age sixteen.

VVAF ’ s Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign ( NTRC ) educates and mobilizes key constituencies to advance US public policy on a bipartisan basis that reduces the threats posed by nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

His most notable achievement was the successful effort to build strong bipartisan support in the United States Congress for passage of more than US $ 4 billion in U. S. assistance programs for Colombia.

In May 2009, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, wrote a report for the Manhattan Institute on bipartisan health care reform based on Forging a New Plan For Health Care: Principles and Priorities for Sustainable Reform.

As director of the NEC, Sperling, who had played a key role in the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act, was a key negotiator of the 1997 bipartisan Balanced Budget Act .. Sperling was also a principal negotiator with then-Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers of the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

The most recent version, re-introduced on May 6, 2009, drew bipartisan support from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as the endorsements of Amnesty International, Google, Human Rights Watch, Reporters without Borders,

A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.

From the start, it was clear that bipartisan support would be essential to success in the war effort, and any manner of compromise alienated factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions in the Union Army.

This action had bipartisan support, and proved quite popular with the public.

Thousand Days War ( 1899 – 1902 ) cost an estimated 100, 000 lives, and up to 300, 000 people died during " La Violencia " ( The Violence ) of the late 1940s and 1950s, a bipartisan confrontation which erupted after the assassination of Liberal popular candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.

NATO did not initially have strong bipartisan support in Congress at the time he assumed his command ; Eisenhower unhesitatingly advised the participating European nations that it would be incumbent upon them to demonstrate their own commitment of troops and equipment to the NATO force before it would come from a war weary United States.

The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Court or passing any considerable legislation ; it abolished many of the relief programs when unemployment diminished during World War II.

Once in office, the new president showed signs of reneging on some of his pledges, especially those related to the appointment of a bipartisan cabinet.

Jamaica's current Constitution was drafted in 1962 by a bipartisan joint committee of the Jamaican legislature.

Lynch enjoys bipartisan support and is the most popular Governor in the states history.

After it became clear Dole would be the nominee, Kemp attempted to form a bipartisan seminar with Felix Rohatyn to produce a fiscal plan that could be endorsed by both parties.

The plan had bipartisan support in Washington, where the Republicans controlled Congress and the Democrats controlled the White House.

Soon after, a bill granting an initial $ 5 billion passed Congress with strong bipartisan support.

* In Israel although it shares a similar agenda with the Sephardic Shas political party, Shas is more bipartisan when it comes to its own issues and non-nationalistic-based with a huge emphasis on Sephardi and Mizrahi Judaism.

The bipartisan House committee in front of which Clemens appeared, citing seven apparent inconsistencies in Clemens ' testimony, recommended that the Justice Department investigate whether Clemens lied under oath about using performance-enhancing drugs.

The initial power-sharing agreement was effective until 1974 ; nonetheless, with modifications, the Liberal – Conservative bipartisan system lasted until 1990.

The sixteen-year extension of the bipartisan power-sharing agreement permitted the Liberal and Conservative élites to consolidate their socioeconomic control of Colombian society, and to strengthen the military to suppress political reform and radical politics proposing alternative forms of government for Colombia.

The eventual bipartisan 1986 act aimed to be revenue-neutral: while it reduced the top marginal rate, it also partially " cleaned up " the tax base by curbing tax loopholes, preferences, and exceptions, thus raising the effective tax on activities previously specially favored by the code.

* Al Gore makes his biggest speech since he lost his bid for the presidency, and strongly supports President Bush and the bipartisan atmosphere prevailing since the attack.

At the same time the economics of continued possession weighed heavily on the minds of Danish decision makers, and a bipartisan consensus in favor of selling emerged in the Danish parliament.

The bipartisan primary / caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the 6 competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's Democratic contests.

In 1986, several bills were killed in the U. S. Senate by bipartisan maneuvers which did not allow the bills to come up for a vote.