Category: Bipartisan
2022 and Beyond for The Bipartisan Press
Outlining our goals and direction for 2022 and beyond.
McCarthy’s Select Committee Picks Unite 3 Disparate Congresswomen
There is undoubtedly very little that these three congresswomen agree. But, when it came to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's choices to sit on the new House select committee which will be probing the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol Building, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Republican Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, found themselves in perfect harmony.
Senators Seek To Overhaul Congress’ Role In National Security With Bipartisan Legislation
A group of senators, made up of both Democrats and Republicans, have introduced legislation designed to reclaim Congress’ role in national security matters.
TV Host to Manchin: Why Don’t You Ever Draw Red Lines Against the GOP? You Are the Man with Leverage
In a television interview Sunday, ABC News host Jon Karl turned the tables on Joe Manchin, asking the West Virginian why he never uses that influence as a cudgel against Republicans to fall in line for more of the bipartisanship that Manchin regularly says is his goal.
Biden ‘Didn’t Run on a Promise to Unite the Democratic and Republican Party into One Party in Washington’
Joe Biden's drive for national unity reached what might be realistic limits this week in the US Senate, where the legislative framework for President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package made it into law by the slimmest margin possible -- and with no Republican support.
Treasury Secretary Threatens ‘Severe Consequences’ to Big Businesses That Don’t Return PPP Loans
On Tuesday, the Senate passed a new coronavirus relief bill totaling around $480 billion
Reopening on May 1 Is an ‘Artificial Deadline’
While Donald Trump and others eagerly look toward reopening a US economy currently shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic as early as May 1, others are sounding an alarm that that date might still be too soon given the risks to public health.
Progressives Should Welcome Conservatives to the Climate Change Table: The Planet’s Future May Depend on It
A group of concerned Republicans, co-led by former secretaries of state James Baker and George Shultz, has decided to take climate change seriously and offer what they call a market-oriented solution.
Biden, And Republicans vs. ‘Trumplicans’
What Democrats, be they Joe Biden or anyone else, is why even think that they can pander to the Trumplicans?