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The bipartisan Workplace Religious Freedom Act ( WRFA ) was introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Rick Santorum ( R-Pennsylvania ) and Senator John Kerry ( D-Massachusetts ) on March 17, 2005, and in the House of Representatives by Representatives Mark Souder ( R-IN ), Carolyn McCarthy ( D-NY ), Bobby Jindal ( R-LA ), and Anthony Weiner ( D-NY ).
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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 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.
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.
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 ( 15 U. S. C §§ 41-58, as amended ) started the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ), a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the president of the United States for seven-year terms.
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 ).
He also supported the bipartisan Clean Energy Stimulus Act of 2008 that provides tax incentives for the development of clean and renewable energy sources.
In 2006 Sununu sponsored the bipartisan New England Wilderness Act which added tens of thousand of acres of land to federally protected forests.
In September 2008, Sununu became one of twenty senators ( ten Democrats and ten Republicans ) co-sponsoring a bipartisan energy bill, the New Energy Reform Act of 2008.
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.
The bipartisan 2006 Deficit Reduction Act and other measures have sought to reduce the amount of money claimed by the government and to ensure that more funds are accessible by children and families, noting that more obligors ( paying parents ) are willing to pay child support when their children directly benefit from payments.
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.
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.
The bipartisan Conservative coalition in Congress passed anti-union legislation over liberal opposition, most notably the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
Eric Alva and a bipartisan group of representatives to Capitol Hill to reintroduce the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, legislation that would repeal the Pentagon's " don't ask, don't tell " policy regarding gay service members.
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.
Upton voted against passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( PPACA ) and has since voted in favor of its complete repeal, stating that the law ignored the will of the people and that a bill that important should not have been passed without strong bipartisan support.
This campaign culminated in a bipartisan amendment, which became part of the Equality Act 2010.
Wilkinson's hopes were manifested with the passage of the bipartisan Innocence Protection Act in 2004.
George W. Bush | President Bush signing the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act at Hamilton High School ( Hamilton, Ohio ) | Hamilton H. S.
The FOIA amendments were a small part of the bipartisan Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.
Landmark laws enacted, with huge bipartisan majorities and many times with the help of the business community, include the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988, the 1988 Fair Housing Act Amendments, the Japanese American Civil Liberties Act of 1988, and the 1982 Voting Rights Act Extension.
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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.
Jamaica's current Constitution was drafted in 1962 by a bipartisan joint committee of the Jamaican legislature.
The initial power-sharing agreement was effective until 1974 ; nonetheless, with modifications, the Liberal – Conservative bipartisan system lasted until 1990.
In response to the ruling, a grassroots, bipartisan group called Move to Amend was created to garner support for a constitutional amendment overturning corporate personhood and declaring that money is not speech.
A National Cultural Center, suggested during the Franklin Roosevelt Administration and created by a bipartisan law signed by Dwight Eisenhower, was transformed into the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a living memorial to the assassinated president.
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.
During the 1960s, he was a leading member of a bipartisan group of establishment elders known as The Wise Men, who initially supported the Vietnam War, but then turned against it at a critical meeting with President Lyndon Johnson in March 1968.
The cost estimate for the entire plan was $ 7. 8 billion, and in a bipartisan show of cooperation, CERP was voted through Congress with an overwhelming margin.
Pryor was a member of the bipartisan Gang of 14 formed in 2005 to forge a compromise on the use of the Senate filibuster.
In 2004, the Citizens ' Debate Commission ( CDC ) was formed with the stated mission of returning control of the debates to an independent nonpartisan body rather than a bipartisan body.
In September 2008, Coleman joined the bipartisan Gang of 20, which was seeking a bipartisan solution to the American energy crisis.
He failed in early campaigns for state office from his heavily Republican home county but finally was elected to the state senate in 1898, indicating his growing bipartisan appeal.
In 1969, Brooke was a leader of the bipartisan coalition that defeated the Senate confirmation of the President's nominee to the Supreme Court, Clement Haynsworth.
During the 1950s, his method of urging bipartisan support was to yell across at Republicans that President Dwight D. Eisenhower would never have got anything done without Democratic help.
Although administered as a private organization, its funding mostly comes from a governmental appropriation by Congress but was created by The Democracy Program as a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation.
While the United States threatened intervention if he was removed through revolution, a bipartisan coalition came together to remove him from the presidency.
In 1992, Holbrooke was also a member of the Carnegie Commission on America and a Changing World and Chairman and principal author of the bipartisan Commission on Government and Renewal, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation and the Peterson Institute.
Additionally, Holbrooke was an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy.
However, the effort was unable to gain bipartisan support.
On May 23, 2005, Chafee was one of 14 bipartisan senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats ' use of the judicial filibuster, forestalling the Republican leadership's implementation of the so-called " nuclear option ".
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