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The Founders were largely nonpartisan, and did not think that political parties would play a role in American politics. However, political parties have long been a major force in American politics, and the nation has alternated between periods of intense party rivalry and partisanship, as well as periods of bipartisanship.
Bipartisanship has been criticized because it can obscure the differences between parties, making voting for candidates based on policies difficult in a democracy. [25] Additionally, the concept of bipartisanship has been criticized as discouraging agreements between more than two parties, thus exercising a tyranny of the majority by forcing ...
As vice president, Biden supported the 2013 bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill, a bill crafted by the Gang of Eight (four Democratic, four Republican senators) that would have created a 13-year pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants with security checks, devoted unprecedented resources to border security, created a new ...
Apr. 30—WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan was named the most bipartisan member of the U.S. Senate, according to the ranking from a nonpartisan organization. The Common Ground Committee said ...
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President Biden signed the stopgap funding bill that will keep the government open until March, punting the thornier issues surrounding the nation’s finances to the incoming administration of ...
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, appointed Kelly H. Rankin, a Republican, as a U.S. federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, appointed Camela C. Theeler, a Republican, as a U.S. federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota.
While even stalwart Biden allies like Delaware Sen. Chris Coons criticized the President for vetoing the badly needed, bipartisan measure to add new judges, Ryan declared it the work of a modern ...