Bipartisan Workshop Aims to End Gridlock
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Minnesota legislators, plagued by enough drama and disagreement for a season's worth of plot lines on a reality TV series, decided they needed group therapy. About 75 senators and representatives voluntarily attended a workshop, "Beyond Bickering and Gridlock," that hoped to answer a question that plagues state lawmakers across the country and members of Congress alike: "Can't we all just get along?"
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What just last year generated legislative deadlock for a deeply divided Congress, has this year sailed through the House of Representatives after just a few hours of modest debate: H.R. 1908, the Patent Reform Act of 2007, has passed the House with at least some measure of bipartisan support.
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A breakthrough on climate change deadlock is being sought in a meeting at the US senate.
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After losing back-to-back presidential elections, Democratic leaders are trying to figure out how to make the party more relevant to mainstream Americans and keep it from slipping into perpetual minority-party status. And the task is daunting, many Democratic consultants and leaders agree.
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Americans foresee "more gridlock" in government if Democrats take over the House and/or the Senate after elections this fall, a CNN poll shows.
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What's up with this bipartisanship fad? Last week it was the Senate majority and minority leaders, Sens. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), all playing nice at the McConnell Center in Louisville. Now we learn that Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) has been cozying up with the very people...
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Gridlock has seized control of Washington, from the White House to the white dome of the U.S. Capitol.
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Members of the legislative black caucus met with a National Rifle Association lobbyist for nearly an hour Monday in an effort to find a solution to the gun violence that has Philadelphia in its throes.
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Envoys mediating in talks on the future of Kosovo presented ideas to Serbia and Kosovo Albanians on Monday aimed at breaking the deadlock over the Albanian demand for the province's independence.
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From aggressive greenhouse-gas limits to new nuclear plants, independent group tries to bridge divisive issues. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, backed by leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, announced legislation Tuesday that would enact
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It is a relief that bipartisanship worked during the special session in solving the stateâs health insurance problem. Both the House and Senate passed the revision of the plan and Gov.
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Group demonstrates possible solutions, but lawmakers also need to act.
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By The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Feb. 5--It's human nature to play for time when big issues need to be resolved. But big issues -- like eminent domain reform -- are what state lawmakers were elected to confront.
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The first thing the new, Democratic-led Senate will do next year is meet in a closed "bipartisan caucus" to help set a more pleasant tone than the relentless backbiting of the Congress now heading home, party leaders said Friday.
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The House federal workforce subcommittee usually operates on bipartisan consensus and voice votes. But not yesterday.
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By JUAN-CARLOS RODRIGUEZ Journal Staff Writer  Neighborhood representatives and public officials traded ideas of how to improve communication and collaboration at an Albuquerque Partnership semiannual planning meeting Thursday morning.