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The most recent precedent was the bipartisan agreement reached earlier this year on another fiscal issue that threatened to disrupt the normal functioning of government: the absence of a formally approved budget for this year.
Most observers expect a one-step process for bipartisan agreement before August 2.
Rather, the problem is rooted in the period from the 1930’s to the 1970’s, when bipartisan majorities enacted – or supported the expansion of – the popular Social Security and Medicare programs, which provide, respectively, pensions and health care to senior citizens.
That approach has continued on a bipartisan basis in the US, and polls show that it retains broad acceptance in Japan.
It would be far better to develop a bipartisan legislative plan aimed at removing the temptation to shift corporate headquarters in the first place.
If Obama is looking for an opportunity to negotiate a bipartisan deal that would strengthen the US economy and increase employment, he should seriously consider such a package of reforms.
Such factors have given rise to rare bipartisan support for deepening US ties with India since the early 1990s.
Most importantly, there has been a bipartisan (and global) effort to depoliticize monetary policy.
And there is bipartisan opposition to a value-added tax, with Democrats fearing its regressive consequences and Republicans dreading its revenue-generating effectiveness.
Whatever the merits and shortcomings of various proposals, these divisions suppressed the bipartisan aspects of the political process and emphasized its zero-sum dimension.
This effort requires persistence and a long official attention span, which in turn presupposes bipartisan support.
The US political system’s persistently low approval ratings stem in part from the fact that it seems to reward obstructionism rather than constructive bipartisan action.
Competing on Corporate TaxBERKELEY – Corporate tax reform has emerged as an area of potential bipartisan action in the United States Congress over the next few months.
The pro-growth rationale for a sizable reduction in the US rate has garnered bipartisan support – a rarity in today's Congress.
There is also bipartisan agreement that the foregone revenues from a rate reduction should be covered mainly by broadening the tax base – the same approach adopted in the 1986 tax reform.
Barack Obama has outlined four conditions that ought to be imposed: an upside for the taxpayers as well as a downside; a bipartisan board to oversee the process; help for homeowners as well as the holders of the mortgages; and some limits on the compensation of those who benefit from taxpayers’ money.
Bipartisan support for such a measure surfaced when Senators Charles Schumer (a liberal Democrat from New York) and Lindsey Graham (a conservative Republican from South Carolina) introduced the first Chinese currency bill.
Yet a few years ago, with bipartisan support, it reached the recommended 0.7% level – more than three times the proportion of gross national income spent by the US.
Moreover, China’s expanding military has become a source of bipartisan concern in US national-security circles, even though its defense spending is still but a fraction of America’s (a point often lost amid all the hand-wringing).
Nonetheless, the Warren-McCain bill is unlikely to be enacted soon, if only because President Barack Obama’s administration is preoccupied with keeping the government open and paying its bills, while bipartisan agreement on what day of the week it is, let alone on further financial reform, cannot be guaranteed.
But both parties like the idea of testing rival strategies in the real world, as evidenced by bipartisan support in Congress for a new federal fund to support pay-for-performance projects on a wide range of social problems, including health care, child care, and job training.
Although congressional Republicans have so far refused to allow for a judge-supervised bankruptcy process, bipartisan agreement remains possible.
US-led China bashing – a bipartisan blame game that reached new heights in the 2012 political cycle – remains a real threat.
He was happy to make deals with Democrats – to put himself at the head not just of the Republican Party but of the bipartisan Progressive coalition, trying either to yoke the two forces together or to tack back and forth between them to achieve legislative and policy goals.
Obama broadly follows Ronald Reagan’s (second-term) security policy, George H.W. Bush’s spending policy, Bill Clinton’s tax policy, the bipartisan Squam Lake Group’s financial-regulatory policy, Perry’s immigration policy, John McCain’s climate-change policy, and Mitt Romney’s health-care policy (at least when Romney was governor of Massachusetts).
His victory shattered a century-and-a-half of cozy bipartisan misrule.
The Treasury, on the other hand, is under pressure to produce tax cuts that have bipartisan support, which means putting money into the pockets of people who go out and spend, here and now.
Talk of impeachment has become ubiquitous, but impeachment shouldn’t be attempted – and cannot be politically viable – unless it has a bipartisan basis rooted in the center of the two parties, as was the case with Nixon.
Having already enacted the Countering American Adversaries Through Sanctions Act last year, a bipartisan congressional coalition will soon approve even more severe sanctions, most likely hitting Russian sovereign debt and state-owned financial institutions.
Obama can count on at least some bipartisan support at home for the initiative against Kony: a bill requiring US action against the LRA was signed into law in May 2010, with support from Democrats and Republicans in both houses of Congress.
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