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

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.

In honor of International Human Rights Day, she joined a bipartisan group of 11 House Members that issued a letter to Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung calling for the release of two U. S. citizens arrested by the Government of Vietnam.

The U. S. Senate passed the final version of the legislation by unanimous consent on September 29, 2010 and the House passed it with a bipartisan vote of 254-152 on November 18, 2010.

The House passed its version of the Financial Services Act of 1999 on July 1, 1999, by a bipartisan vote of 343-86 ( Republicans 205 – 16 ; Democrats 138 – 69 ; Independent 0 – 1 ), two months after the Senate had already passed its version of the bill on May 6 by a much-narrower 54 – 44 vote along basically-partisan lines ( 53 Republicans and 1 Democrat in favor ; 44 Democrats opposed ).

On July 1, 1999, the House of Representatives passed ( in a bipartisan 343-86 vote ) a bill ( H. R.

The bill garnered overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress with a 408 – 3 vote in the House, with 21 not voting, and a unanimous vote in the Senate.

In 2011, a bipartisan group of Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives called on the Academy to organize a national committee, prepare a report, and recommend concrete, actionable steps to ensure the nation ’ s excellence in the humanities and the social sciences.

Even though the bill had unanimously passed the Senate with bipartisan support, she persuaded enough Republicans in the House to vote against the bill so that it did not receive the required two-thirds majority.

Ready evidence is found on March 20, 2008, when the invitation to testify in support of environmental legislation by Democrat House Majority Leader Rep. Rocky Adkins, and, on the same day, a rare invitation to speak from the Senate floor was afforded by Republican Senate Majority Leader Senator David L. Williams of Cumberland County as part of the Senate ’ s unanimously passed bipartisan resolution honoring Rogers for his service.

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.

While the minority party will offer amendments during committee consideration, appropriations bills often get significant bipartisan support, both in committee and on the House floor.

He thinks of himself as a " Progressive Democrat " and has said that " I am especially proud that, during the 1990s, I led the bipartisan effort to eliminate the state sales tax on groceries ; and that, in 2009, I was a primary House sponsor of the Racial Justice Act.

Thompson is the founding Member of the bipartisan Gulf Coast Recovery & Rebuilding Caucus in the House of Representatives.

In mid-December resolutions in the Senate called for the establishment of an independent bipartisan commission ; the White House preferred a joint inquiry by the Congressional Intelligence Committees if there were to be any investigation at all.

The bipartisan Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission Act of 2009 ( sponsored by Rep. Engle ) was passed by the House on December 8, 2009 ; it would have taken a fresh look at the United States ' counter-narcotics efforts both at home and abroad.

A co-founder and co-chair of the House Oceans Caucus, Greenwood was the author of comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to preserve, protect, and research ocean resources.

After the 9 / 11 Commission published its findings, Maloney co-founded the bipartisan House 9 / 11 Commission Caucus and helped write and secure the enactment into law of many of its recommendations to reform the nation's intelligence agencies Congressional Quarterly wrote in its annual guide, 2006 Politics in America: " In the 108th Congress, Maloney reached out beyond her usual roles as a liberal gadfly and persistent Bush administration critic, helping win enactment of a sweeping bill to reorganize U. S. intelligence operations.

It is a bipartisan, bicameral body, composed of the lower Washington House of Representatives, composed of 98 Representatives, and the upper Washington State Senate, with 49 Senators.

The bill passed the House with bipartisan support.

De Priest took the House restaurant issue to a special bipartisan House committee.

A second proposal, for 47 seats with 19 in the country, was adopted with bipartisan support in the House of Assembly, but encountered opposition in the Legislative Council.

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

Coleman is also on the National Advisory Council for the U. S. Global Leadership Coalition, a bipartisan committee that promotes international engagement, and which includes every living former U. S. Secretary of State.

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.

Allison chaired the 1884 – 1886 Allison Commission, a bipartisan joint congressional committee " among the first to explore the question of whether federal intervention politicizes scientific research.

And on December 23, 2011 Becerra was appointed to serve on a bicameral conference committee to find bipartisan solutions on the middle class tax cuts, unemployment insurance, and the Medicare physician payment rate.

The makeup of the League's executive committee was designed to demonstrate its bipartisan nature.

With the support of all 15 Republicans in the chamber, and six dissenting Democrats, Wilder won the vote 21 – 15 and then proceeded to organize the Senate on a " bipartisan " basis, awarding a majority of the committee chairmanships to his Democratic loyalists with the remainder going to the Republicans.

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

He wants to create a bipartisan committee on public education and give school districts more local control.

In 1963, Lieutenant Governor Shafer had chaired a bipartisan committee to explore constitutional reforms.

The bill was reported favorably by the full committee, and on March 14, 2007, the House passed the bill in an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 333-93.

A bipartisan committee of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly had recommended a constitution and that it should be further considered by an elected Constitutional Assembly.

Then House Speaker Dennis Hastert appointed a bipartisan search committee made up of 18 congressional members to recommend a new chaplain to him, but when that committee reportedly recommended Catholic priest Timothy O ' Brien ( selected by secret ballot after consideration of more than 50 applicants and nominees for the position ), Hastert chose Presbyterian minister Charles Parker Wright instead.

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.

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.

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.

In 1996, bipartisan legislation for voluntary spending limits which rewards those who bare soft money is killed by a Republican filibuster.

Moderation of the spoils system at the federal level came with the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883, which created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.

Since its founding in 1975, the National Italian American Foundation ( NIAF ) has worked closely with the bicameral and bipartisan Italian American Congressional Delegation, which is led by co-chairs Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey and Rep. Pat Tiberi of Ohio.

In 2006 Sununu sponsored the bipartisan New England Wilderness Act which added tens of thousand of acres of land to federally protected forests.

The 1994 election also marked the end of the Conservative Coalition, a bipartisan coalition of conservative Republicans and Democrats ( often referred to as " boll weevil Democrats " for their association with the U. S. South ), which had often managed to control Congressional outcomes since the New Deal era.

Subsequent to the 2006 midterm election, in which the Democratic Party gained control of both houses of Congress, Landrieu announced ( along with Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine ) the formation of the " Common Ground Coalition ", a group of moderate senators of both parties, with the goal of finding bipartisan consensus on legislative matters.

In September 2008, Coleman joined the bipartisan Gang of 20, which was seeking a bipartisan solution to the American energy crisis.

In 2005, Coleman successfully led a bipartisan coalition of 34 Senators in securing a renewable fuels package as part of the 2005 Energy Policy Act, which included new standards for renewable fuels and an extension of tax credits for biodiesel, small ethanol producers and wind and livestock waste.

Until 1993, New Zealand's first-past-the-post electoral system, like that of the United States, imposed strong centralizing and bipartisan pressures on its political configurations, which disadvantaged minor parties.

He is also the Republican leader of the Gang of 10, a bipartisan group which has worked to create a compromise surrounding the energy policy of the United States.

Although he continued to vote with the conservative coalition against Roosevelt's domestic proposals, Vandenberg gradually abandoned his isolationism to become an architect of a bipartisan foreign policy, which he defined as a consensus developed by consultation between the President, the State Department, and congressional leaders from both parties, especially those in the Senate.

The bipartisan Committee runs a number of projects, including US Budget Watch ( www. usbudgetwatch. org ), a project funded by Pew Charitable Trusts which reports on important fiscal issues relating to the 2008 election and continuing after that.

The Clinton presidency also saw the passage and signing of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 which was a bipartisan measure expressing support for regime change in Iraq.

Their bipartisan teamwork produced the state's first income tax and paved the way for the state's 1969 constitutional convention, which created the fourth and current Illinois Constitution.

The significance of this election was broader than merely a change of partisan rule ; new issues, such as the environment, Aboriginal affairs, abortion, multiculturalism, and a broader acceptance of state spending, resulted from the Whitlam government, which in many respects created a bipartisan consensus on major issues of social policy.

As one of his first initiatives in Congress, he created the bipartisan caucus on the United States Coast Guard, which he co-chaired with two other Coast Guard veterans, Reps. Howard Coble ( R-NC ) and Gene Taylor ( D-MS ).

U. S. Representative Lee assented and they were subsequently elected to serve as Co-Chairs throughout the 109th Congress and the 110th Congress, leadership positions from which they spearheaded congressional opposition to the U. S. military invasion and occupation of Iraq and built subsequent bipartisan support for the complete withdrawal of all U. S. troops from that country.

This campaign culminated in a bipartisan amendment, which became part of the Equality Act 2010.

* Launching a bipartisan initiative in Massachusetts to fight child hunger which helped lead to an expansion of school breakfast and lunch programs.