In short, there were bipartisan deals to be made because genuine cross-party overlap existed on many issues, and many lawmakers were responding to genuine cross-party constituencies.
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That strategy must be pragmatic, durable and cross party lines.
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Such a creed, known as laïcité, enjoys cross-party political consensus.
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The cross-party talks seem likely to wind down next week.
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The possibility of cross-party agreement seems more remote than ever.
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Make America Dinner Again helps people host cross-party dinner parties.
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The effect on cross-party relationships has been insidious and toxic.
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Such shows of cross-party amity in Washington have grown rare.
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The Democratic Party contained many conservatives willing to cross party lines.
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But contempt for another seasonal staple appears to cross party lines.
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The votes prompted moderates in both parties to cross party lines.
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It's a reminder that these differences may increasingly cross party lines.
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He said Mr. Emmett was a centrist politician with cross-party appeal.
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She will instead try to develop a plan with cross-party support.
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But don't expect them to take the cross-party collaboration too far.
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They could accept the defeat of priorities that don't have cross-party appeal.
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Wednesday's vote will show whether her views have garnered enough cross-party consensus.
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Cross-party co-operation in a hung Parliament has become a key factor.
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Offering MPs free votes could foster cross-party support for a new approach.
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As cross-party divides go, Collins is the lowest of low-hanging fruit.
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To defeat a filibuster, they would need eight Democrats to cross party lines.
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What if voters this year cross party lines in larger numbers than usual?
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The cross-party cooperation that enabled the bailouts did not survive Obama's inauguration.
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Convincing 20 of them to cross party lines would be a tall order.
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These problems cross party lines, harm all taxpayers, and undermine confidence in government.
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Carper was the only Democrat still in the Senate to cross party lines.
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Mr. Macri has also been maneuvering to gather cross-party support in the Senate.
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The Utah Republican was the only senator to cross party lines in Wednesday's vote.
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MPs (Members of parliament) are probably not satisfied with cross-party talks so far.
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This People's Vote group makes a valiant effort to present itself as cross-party.
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Another anti-Brexit dream is of a cross-party group of MPs stopping it.
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He has been a staunch advocate of cross-party cooperation in running his city.
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Even so, climate could yet enter the political mainstream and win cross-party appeal.
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But it will hardly help engender the cross-party collaboration she says she seeks.
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A cross-party commission collapsed in 2011, but not before agreeing on 60 articles.
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At its finest, this involves crafting arguments that lure voters to cross party lines.
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If at any point a cross-party compromise seemed possible, those days are over.
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But that would require cross-party cooperation and would surely rip apart her party.
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They are not willing to cross party lines and vote for the centre-left.
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Three times Michelle Obama and George W. Bush proved friendship can cross party lines
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The question now is whether Democratic voters will cross party lines for Mr. Daugherty.
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"She explained about the cross-party talks and made the point that, while such cross-party talks are a normal part of democratic life in most member states, it was not the case in the United Kingdom," said one participant at the meeting.
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And it comes after the failure of cross-party talks designed to break the impasse.
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He was clearly the most likely Democratic senator to cross party lines in the trial.
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All the main pro-European Union groups came together to support this cross-party cause.
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Bob Corker was the only lawmaker to cross party lines, joining the Democrats in opposition.
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Public unrest has simmered throughout January, with a cross-party group of legislators boycotting parliament.
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He's getting women to cross party lines, sometimes for the first time in their lives.
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Partisan control of Congress will mean less, since there will be more cross-party coalitions.
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Beneath these shifting positions at the top was a significant cross-party swapping of voters.
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With the parties closely matched, however, the opportunity to build winning cross-party coalitions still existed — and so that opportunity would be seized by outsider factions in both parties, through a form of cross-party organizing that got the wincingly awkward name of transpartisanship.
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He called on Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to "open the door" to cross-party cooperation.
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In reality he may well need to seek a cross-party coalition in order to govern.
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"We are hoping to see the results of the cross-party talks this week," he said.
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And once again, we will be ready to work cross-party on amendments to do that.
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And inspire us to cross party lines to work together and show the world America's heart.
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Cross-party relationships that had survived the Bush or Obama presidencies were faltering now under Trump.
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A cross-party group of Members of Parliament are mobilising to prevent a no-deal exit.
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A cross-party, cross-denominational convention thereafter should be convened and the constitution confirmed by plebiscite.
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Pro-EU MPs are discussing the possibility of forming a cross-party government of national unity.
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A decision to hear from witnesses would require only four Republicans to cross party lines, however.
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Will any Democrats or Republicans cross party lines in the upcoming full House vote on impeachment?
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They only wanted surrogates with cross-party appeal, like former NBA star Charles Barkley — and Biden.
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The political framework is stable with a cross-party consensus on key issues, especially financial strategy.
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So I took the difficult decision to try to reach a cross-party deal on Brexit.
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"We will work on a cross-party basis to block a 'no-deal' outcome," he said.
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It has also made it more difficult to build a cross-party consensus for the beauty agenda.
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The cross-party coalition the prime minister stitched together to fight for NAFTA is beginning to fray.
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Such a mayoralty demands a chief-executive-mayor with a strong personal mandate and cross-party reach.
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Yet Clinton wins with men, gets more cross-party appeal than Trump, and bests him among independents.
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AFTER MORE than a month of cross-party talks, pressure to reach a deal should be mounting.
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Considering Trump's shaky relationship with the House majority, the cross-party guest list is seen as surprising.
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Last but by no means least, McCain was a broadly popular figure with considerable cross-party appeal.
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Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) was the only lawmaker to cross party lines, joining the Democrats in opposition.
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Biden recalled working briefly with Corker in the Senate and praised his ability to cross party lines.
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There are cross-party alliances in place intended to stop the BJP, but some are looking fragile.
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A source familiar with the cross-party talks said that number was higher than their own estimates.
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Health care isn't the only sector of criminal-justice reform in which cross-party coalitions have formed.
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Richard Hanna became the first Republican Congress member to cross party lines and endorse Clinton for president.
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However, it is a triumph of Tory party unity, not a successful product of cross-party negotiation.
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That's the number of Republicans that signaled they'll cross party lines; you need 20 in the Senate.
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The cross-party group of lawmakers won a vote yesterday to seize control of the parliamentary agenda.
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Lofven said he would not resign and called for cross-party cooperation to resolve the political impasse.
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He was a Democrat for most of his career, so he counts as a cross-party pick.
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That will make both parties more internally diverse and therefore create space for new cross-party coalitions.
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But in other ways, it is a stunning demonstration of the public's thirst for cross-party co-operation.
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In April, More United established the first, permanent network of MPs committed to working cross-party in Parliament.
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Speaking to the BBC, Ashdown called it a "political startup" that wants to create a cross-party movement.
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"The findings in the report are disgraceful," Nicky Morgan, chair of the cross-party Treasury Select Committee, said.
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It comes after the Halifax MP sent her a cross-party letter of solidarity from female MPs. pic.twitter.
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For the demonstrators on the front lines, they sought a humanity and dignity that might cross party lines.
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After cross-party talks, he announced an immediate boost to pensions and health-care coverage by the state.
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The cross-party parliamentary committee has the power to decide whether to report the petition to the legislature.
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Under the circumstances, he's done bafflingly little in the way of good-faith effort at cross-party dealmaking.
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One could imagine a very different kind of outsider businessman-turned-president governing as a cross-party dealmaker.
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The two leading cross-party candidates are Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, and Sajid Javid, the home secretary.
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This month in Michigan several bills sponsored by Mr Filler passed its assembly, with broad cross-party support.
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Republicans can only afford for two senators to cross party lines if they hope to pass the bill.
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Interestingly, trade policy also became much less polarized in the 1920s, with cross-party coalitions on tariff issues.
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"Let's see what happens after this legislation has gone through," Corbyn told reporters Tuesday after cross-party talks.
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And even before the Covid-19 outbreak, there was cross-party agreement that Britain needs more capital spending.
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In recent years, cross-party coalitions in the states have started to make progress on criminal justice reform.
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But voters often cross party lines in general elections, splitting tickets and electing as many Republicans as Democrats.
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Both the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee and the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee have launched inquiries.
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Pecresse said that for the first time there is cross-party consensus on the need to attract business.
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For Mr. Pierce, however, the consensus is rooted in a cross-party thirst for a return to normalcy.
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Mr. Trump's remark drew cross-party scorn in France, and a sharp rebuke from the French Foreign Ministry.
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It is absolutely true there used to be more cross-party socializing and hobnobbing than there is now.
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The prime minister has said he will start cross-party talks to tackle the growing social-care crisis.
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In March this year, an influential cross-party group of politicians published a report on unaccompanied child migrants.
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Only about 10 percent of voters are "pure independents," meaning they frequently cross party lines in federal elections.
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How we got here: On Monday, cross-party lawmakers unveiled a bill that would give Johnson until Oct.
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These patterns of cross-party similarity continue as we move down the list of topics important to independents.
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Voters are willingly engaging in this process, united around one thing: a cross-party distaste for the Republican candidate.
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Should talks between the parties prove inconclusive, the president could attempt to nominate a technocratic or cross-party government.
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Most important, Mr Trump's disregard for the truth cuts into what remains of the basis for cross-party agreement.
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It's true that some of Trump's stated policies have the same kind of cross-party appeal that Brexit did.
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If cross-party opposition defeats her plans, the risk becomes real that Brexit will become "no deal" by default.
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In London, the head of Britain's cross-party Media parliamentary committee also wrote to Zuckerberg asking for more information.
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Voters' choices broken out by party provide an interesting window into areas where Trump might hold cross-party appeal.
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Dawn newspaper, which bore much of the brunt of the pre-election media crackdown, urged a cross-party reconciliation.
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The British government rejected proposals from a cross-party committee on how to tackle fashion's footprint, prompting an outcry.
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"These cross-party talks cannot be about cosmetic changes to her already rejected deal," he said in a statement.
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She played up issues like child care and equal pay that polling showed had cross-party, cross-gender support.
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For decades now, a formidable, cross-party caucus has kept generous federal support flowing to Brazilian agriculture, including bioenergy.
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A Boy Scout leader willing to cross party lines to revive his blue-collar town in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
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He said there was "quite a lot of cross-party support for the idea," even among pro-unionist MPs.
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A handful of senators who sometimes cross party lines will hold the key votes, with 51 needed for confirmation.
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The aim is to foster cross-party co-operation on specific issues that are chosen and funded by the public.
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One explanation is that cross-party Brexit talks - and hopes for a breakthrough - remain the main driver for the currency.
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The swift response and cross-party support for the new laws have drawn significant reaction in the U.S. where Sen.
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And in a pro-Labour Party city like London, it helped turn Johnson into a candidate with cross-party appeal.
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The government's proposed framework included bilateral meetings between the central and regional administrations as well as a cross-party coordinator.
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There's been growing support for a second referendum — it has cross-party support in Parliament, but not quite a majority.
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The cross-party body of MPs recommended that the RSPCA should stop conducting its own prosecutions in animal-welfare cases.
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This is why a cross-party group of parliamentarians in Parliament have formed an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hydrogen.
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Mitt Romney, the only Republican to cross party lines and vote to convict the president on one article of impeachment.
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Cross-party initiatives like Paddy Ashdown's "More United", which helped rally support for Ms Olney in Richmond, are sprouting up.
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He plans instead to negotiate issue by issue with cross-party interest groups, such as evangelicals, security hardliners and farmers.
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The cross-party ticket would feature Kasich at the top with Hickenlooper as his running mate, according to the report.
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This led some to conclude that a cross-party deal between Labour and the Conservatives is looking even more unlikely.
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Officials say his reputation for honesty and cross-party appeal will be vital if he hopes to defeat Lopez Obrador.
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They've carried their cross-party friendship into a class they taught together last fall at the University of South Carolina.
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The cross-party commission investigating banking crises said in a statement it had voted unanimously to call Ghizzoni to speak.
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She doesn't exactly owe them, but — unlike in the Obama administration — cross-party lines of communication will be wide open.
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Another potential wild card: It's also possible that Republicans could cross party lines to cast a vote for Pelosi. Rep.
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Brexit has left Britain distracted and divided, with neither the capacity nor the cross-party camaraderie to campaign against independence.
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It also continues the surprising cross-party theme of white dressing, after Melania Trump's and Hillary Clinton's at the conventions.
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Cross-party cooperation is rare in Britain, where the left-right political divide often creates a tribal atmosphere in parliament.
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Some MPs are arguing for a cross-party commission or committee to try to achieve consensus on the way ahead.
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The one most mentioned is "Common Market 2.0," put forward by a cross-party group of Tory and Labour lawmakers.
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Such a vote could lead to a government of national unity (gnu) backed by a cross-party majority of MPs.
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She's been doing cross-party talks to try and figure something out, and they haven't been going all that well.
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Cross-party support is growing for a referendum on the Brexit deal, a Lib Dem demand ever since the first referendum.
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How it works: The EU wants to see May making visible progress on cobbling together cross-party support for a deal.
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Kuczynski, on the other hand, could see the cross-party alliance that defended him this week evaporate going forward, said Chlimper.
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But he admits to frustration at the "relentless grind" of fundraising, and a lack of colleagues open to cross-party deals.
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The last time it happened was in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan won cross-party support in Congress for comprehensive reform.
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Some could even be rolled back (although the Climate Change Act received cross-party support when it passed eight years ago).
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At the same time, while cross-party cooperation is essential for achieving outcomes, neither side has an incentive to do so.
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They cross party lines in state legislatures to ensure ballot access laws are virtually impregnable, thwarting outsiders from challenging their fiefdoms.
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The erosion of the longstanding, broad, cross-party consensus on trade is a big deal, and perhaps a very inflationary one.
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In addition, as the two parties have diverged from one another, there is less opportunity for cross-party pairing to occur.
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By contrast, the FCA proposal was put forward by a cross-party parliamentary committee, including four lawmakers from Osborne's Conservative Party.
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The meeting kept open lines of communication, even if it did not yield any obvious sign of a cross-party consensus.
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The filter bubble isn't just a reflection of society's polarization and cross-party hostility — it's also a major cause of them.
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For ethanol's supporters, it means increasing party polarization threatens to undermine the cross-party regional alliances that now drive biofuel policy.
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Do three or four (or more) Republicans decide to cross party lines and start working with Democrats on a bipartisan bill?
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In other words, Trump voters were about four times more likely than Clinton voters to cross party lines on abortion rights.
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This means the cross-party group backed by London mayor Boris Johnson can spend up to £7 million of public funds.
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A cross-party group of British MPs (members of parliament) introduced a bill for the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.
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One scenario would see him try to engineer a cross-party deal to create a government with a clearly defined policy program.
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An aide said the 64-year-old leader, who has been in power for just eight months, would seek cross-party talks.
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Romney, the GOP nominee for president in 2012 and the former governor of Massachusetts, was the only senator to cross party lines.
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Then, only 5 percent of Republicans, and only 4 percent of Democrats, said they would be upset by the cross-party union.
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In 2013 Mr Barzani won cross-party support for a two-year extension of his second presidential term, before succumbing to hubris.
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Since he won by a large margin, including strong cross-party support, Sir Lindsay can expect to be confirmed after the election.
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A similar cross-party panel tried for two years to reconcile differences on some of the most divisive issues in modern Turkey.
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In recent weeks, May has moved to a cross-party approach and started holding talks with opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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The projection on the White Cliffs of Dover comes ahead of continued cross-party talks, the British government's new approach to Brexit.
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Louisiana has been plagued for years by budget deficits, and Edwards was more than willing to cross party lines to negotiate cuts.
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In his statement Saturday, McCain did not reveal who he would vote for, but maintained that he would not cross party lines.
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Instead, 52 Republicans in the Senate will be looking for eight Democrats to cross party lines and help them break the filibuster.
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He did, however, cross party lines last week to vote in favor of the unsuccessful attempt to allow additional witnesses to testify.
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What do the French call the cross-party, anti-far right alliance that always emerges when the National Front approaches executive power?
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Nonetheless, the Liberal Democrats&apos mission to lead a cross-party, anti-Brexit movement did not produce the results the party wanted.
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That was the central complaint in an open letter signed by a cross-party alliance of senior German lawmakers earlier this year.
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But Collins acknowledged there's a particular pressure that comes when all eyes are on you to see if you'll cross party lines.
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When they insist on tougher immigration enforcement, they know they're speaking to and for the cross-party coalition responsible for Trump's victory.
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One other area that some have suggested could gather cross-party majority is for the U.K. to remain within the EU's Customs Union.
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Polls are beginning to show him neck-and-neck with Emmanuel Macron, an independent centre-left candidate who is capturing cross-party enthusiasm.
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Corbyn wants a pledge from May to block a no-deal Brexit before joining cross-party talks, but May describes this as impossible.
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Some two-dozen Tory rebels have indicated that they are ready to join any cross-party efforts to stop a no-deal Brexit.
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The issue of Britain's nuclear capability has been fiercely debated for decades — with cross-party representation on the both sides of the argument.
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"But, even if cross-party agreement can be reached, infrastructure spending carries a long lifespan from planning to return on investment," she added.
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He said that the purchase of the data would likely take place this month and that the move had received cross-party support.
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The current policy was criticized by a cross-party committee of lawmakers who said it was "inherently unsustainable" and unfair on younger generations.
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Three long years later, however, the Conservatives were too fractured to function and May had to commit herself to a cross-party compromise.
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"We expect only incremental changes from "Plan A" given cross-party talks have fallen flat," analysts at TD Securities wrote in a note.
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The Environmental Audit Committee -- a cross-party panel of UK lawmakers -- found that Britain is unprepared for increasingly common periods of extreme heat.
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On Monday, she promised to create a cross-party body to investigate complaints of misconduct, something some female lawmakers have sought for years.
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The cross-party amendment that was backed on Saturday tried to reduce the odds of a no deal, but it could still happen.
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Republicans are hoping that enough Democrats will cross party lines to support the bill now that McConnell has promised to address their issues.
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"We have a target for 2020 and we think we are going to meet it," Jones told a cross-party group of lawmakers.
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Mike Lee of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine were the only two lawmakers to cross party lines and oppose the rules change.
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It's the result of truly distinct beliefs about policy issues, and perhaps in that regard the reluctance to cross party lines is rational.
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In 2018, even angels and devils will cross party lines to prevent the coming of the End Times—on the small screen, at least.
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Nowhere more so than in 2008, when, post–Crisis, he abandoned the cozy cross–party consensus on matching spending to argue for belt–tightening.
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Following the EU referendum of 2016, no genuine effort was made to build a cross party, let alone a national consensus to deliver Brexit.
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Sterling has weakened more than 1% this month as cross-party Brexit talks have yielded little and left May vulnerable to a leadership challenge.
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It might be tempting to think that women are willing to cross party lines on this front, but the poll didn't bear this out.
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Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi are not officially merged but all three carmakers operate a partnership under a complex arrangement of cross-party share ownership.
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"We are confident in the decades-long, cross-party consensus on light-touch Internet regulation — one that helped America's digital economy thrive," Pai said.
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The U.K.'s political future looks as uncertain as ever with cross-party talks over Brexit still bearing no compromise ahead of crucial decisions.
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Problems with the bidding process were partly to blame for the demise of the contract, rail experts told the cross-party Transport Select Committee.
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Even so, left-wing voters despise Sarkozy and it is not obvious how easily he would create a cross-party front to defeat her.
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Two moderate GOP members said they expect eight or nine Republicans to cross party lines and vote with Democrats on the individual funding bills.
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The Greens have stood aside for Berger as part of an anti-Brexit electoral pact brokered by the cross-party Unite to Remain group.
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"It's all such a perfect storm," said Simon Edwards, director of the County Councils Network, a cross-party group that represents England's local authorities.
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But breaking up the echo chambers that prevent cross-party discussion about market-based solutions to climate change, for example, might be more successful.
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But that crisis reflects the interaction between polarized parties and our weird political system, which requires high levels of cross-party consensus to function.
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And maybe, just maybe, there are enough Republican senators who really do care about America's fundamental values to cross party lines in their defense.
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At least 24 Republicans would have to cross party lines and endorse the discharge petition with all Democrats in order to move it forward.
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Going door to door, Mr. Brown said, some voters he met voiced frustration with Mr. Brownback, but were still reluctant to cross party lines.
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The minute details of alternatives to the "backstop", the ebbs and flows of cross-party and intra-party alliances, and parliamentary procedures dominate discussions.
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"The government must reconsider the use of high interest rates on student loans," Nicky Morgan, the Conservative chair of the cross-party committee, said.
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Republicans are banking on a unified base to defeat red-state Democratic senators who have specialized in getting cross-party votes in the past.
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It added that it has obtained appropriate protections in support of the guarantee and that the deal was approved by Scotlands cross-party finance committee.
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The incumbent, Sergio Mattarella, could appoint a caretaker prime minister at the head of either a cross-party government or one made up of technocrats.
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Although it is theoretically possible for a future Democratic president to assemble cross-party majorities to pass legislation, continued partisan trench-warfare seems more likely.
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Once again, the biggest question is whether he delegates policymaking to more traditional Republicans or pursues less conventional ideas that might even cross party lines.
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Crispin Blunt, a Tory MP and co-chair of a cross-party group on drug reform, thinks cannabis ought to become a schedule 4 drug.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May's talks with opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has not moved much as cross-party talks broke up without an agreement.
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She has put moderate Republicans in her transition team (and will probably do so in her cabinet) while celebrating cross-party collaboration of years past.
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Regional parties dominated the other two states, Telangana and Mizoram, as if to underscore the importance of cross-party alliances in next year's general election.
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The new law, which enjoyed cross-party support from 70 lawmakers, blocks all exploration, extraction and processing of metals, whether in open pits or underground.
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But analysts say Aoun and Hariri, 46, face a formidable task to win the cross-party support needed to make a new administration a success.
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Measures to beef up the country's laws against abusive partners won cross-party support when Theresa May's government proposed them in the summer of 2017.
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The explicit aim is to give candidates an incentive to woo broad coalitions that cross party lines, rather than merely fire up hard-core partisans.
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One answer is that British politics does not easily lend itself to cross-party consensus on anything, let alone an issue as controversial as Brexit.
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Amid claims that victims feel unable to complain, Mrs May is setting up a cross-party grievance procedure and launching a support service for staff.
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At least until the AHCA, GOP officials seemed to see the cost of bucking their new president by building cross-party power as too high.
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This principal proposition is shared by a broad cross-party coalition and, despite protests from the fringes, an overwhelming majority of citizens in her country.
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Cooper said her new proposal, which has cross-party support, would press for a vote on an amendment creating time for her bill on Feb.
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However leaked details on a possible compromise have angered Labour's negotiators, and lawmakers from both sides have expressed their opposition to a cross-party deal.
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Martin raised the prospect of a more protracted delay on Monday by calling for a cross-party deal on reforming parliament before any coalition talks.
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Building a cross-party legislative alliance House and Senate members have sometimes resisted their party's direction by systematically allying with legislators from the other party.
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It added that it has "obtained appropriate protections in support of the guarantee" and that the deal was approved by Scotland's cross-party finance committee.
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But on Tuesday, the Pilger family plans to cross party lines to do something they once considered unthinkable — voting to elect a Democrat to Congress.
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She failed because, rather than seeking cross-party consensus, she tried to placate her own hard right and prevent voters from abandoning the party — again.
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Whatever the outcome of cross-party talks, Mr. Corbyn's apparent hope that Brexit would eventually fade away in favor of domestic issues looks increasingly misguided.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has expressed willingness to head up a "caretaker" cross-party government, while veteran Conservative backbencher Ken Clarke has also been touted.
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In Parliament, a growing cross-party band of members is seeking to amend the Criminal Finances Bill, now making its way through the legislative process.
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So some analysts want a credible, possibly cross-party, commitment to establish a fund that would disburse several hundred billion euros over the next decade.
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More disasters struck the longer the cross-party bickering dragged on, jacking up the legislation's overall price tag and further complicating the task of enactment.
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In the Cities of London & Westminster, for example, Chuka Umunna failed to get the cross-party support he needed to take it from the Conservatives.
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The cross-party group is chaired by Labour MP Gisela Stuart, who chaired the official "Vote Leave" campaign in the run-up to the referendum.
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"The public will not forgive the government if an extension is sought and agreed under the pretence of efforts to secure cross-party compromise," he said.
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As in 2014 they largely failed to form cross-party alliances, allowing the BJP to win numerous three-way races with a mere plurality of votes.
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She continued to rule out the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, about the only thing that would likely command a cross-party majority in Parliament.
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The prime minister offered cross-party talks after MPs rejected her deal by a majority of 22, with more than a third of Conservatives rebelling. bit.
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Lee Hardman, MUFG's currency analyst based in London said "optimism" over a "cross-party deal to break the impasse" had extended the move higher in sterling.
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A cross-party committee of MPs, as well as the industry itself, said this week that an abrupt departure in two years' time could be disastrous.
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Representatives from the ruling Conservatives and the main opposition Labour party are currently in talks to see if a cross-party deal can break the deadlock.
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It also counts positions such as trade envoys for exotic emerging markets, which are often dished out to loyal backbenchers, despite supposedly being cross-party positions.
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I believe that a cross-party majority consensus in the House of Commons can be built around access to the single market and a customs union.
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But Bew is optimistic that this is a moment when there is genuine cross-party support for "doing something different," as Scotland decided to in 2005.
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Sterling also slipped to its lowest levels in two weeks on concerns that the British parliament will fail to reach a cross-party deal on Brexit.
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Despite apparent overtures from both sides, there is little serious hope of cross-party co-operation this time, because Democrats would extract too high a price.
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"The fraud at HBOS Reading was a shocking crime that destroyed lives and livelihoods," Nicky Morgan, chair of the cross-party Treasury Committee, said on Thursday.
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He became the only senator to cross party lines in Trump's trial after all Senate Democrats voted to convict and remove the president on Wednesday afternoon.
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Getting things done requires leadership and an ability to cross party lines and build the trust that is required to solve our nation's most serious challenges.
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Several of the split-ticket voters on whom Manchin relies were at the town hall, expressing appreciation that the senator is willing to cross party lines.
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At its noblest, this involves finding arguments or candidates so reasonable or appealing that they can lure voters out of partisan trenches to cross party lines.
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The shortcomings of counter-terrorism operations, however, were underlined on July 5th by a cross-party parliamentary inquiry into the attacks in Paris on November 13th.
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The outcome of the election might force her to seek a cross-party political consensus to agree on how the U.K. will leave the European Union.
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But she didn't, opting instead to pursue a vision of Brexit which was a "Conservative party project" rather than a cross-party policy goal, Rutter said.
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The mechanisms of that resistance have varied, from building cross-party alliances in Congress to mounting an independent presidential campaign or even starting a new party.
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Clinton and her top supporters have been making a similar cross-party pitch in private since before the Democratic nomination fight even came to its conclusion.
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Rep. Bob Dold has become the the first Republican lawmaker to cross party lines and back equal rights legislation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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She now has cross-party support and has been working with MPs in parliament, including Wera Hobhouse MP, to work on drafting a piece of legislation.
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In her biggest cross-party promise, von der Leyen offered to help allow the EU parliament the right to propose new legislation - currently the Commission's prerogative.
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"The UK will miss its 2020 renewable energy targets without major policy improvements," said Angus MacNeil, chair of the cross-party Energy and Climate Change Committee.
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Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative head of parliament's cross-party Treasury Committee, said the panel's members would need time to consider its response to the surprise revelation.
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Even though a majority of MPs might oppose a no-deal Brexit, they'll have to cross party lines, or join up with opponents to do so.
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These electoral coalitions didn't used to undermine the prevailing cross-party consensus, for secular politics and progressive social policies, but this has changed in recent years.
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When the fascist Arrow Cross party seized power that fall, about 70,000 were gathered in a small area comprising 162 apartment buildings, surrounded by wooden planks.
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Kirk registers to lobby MORE (Ill.), a moderate facing a tough reelection this year, was the only Republican to cross party lines to support it. Sen.
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All of that is true because enough people in Washington in 1999 had the courage to cross party lines in support of our national security. Rep.
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The report comes two months after a cross-party group of lawmakers called for a raft of measures to overhaul online casinos and protect vulnerable people.
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" Jo Swinson, a lawmaker from the centrist Liberal Democrats who supported the amendment on abortion, said the government's decision showed "the power of cross-party pressure.
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"If you have consistent policymaking and cross-party consensus, it's perfectly possible to get richer and cleaner at the same time," said ECIU director Richard Black.
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Several disagreed with the precedent the declaration would set for a president's use of executive power, and opted to cross party lines to express their opposition.
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"This is a time when I believe we must all come together, and even cross party lines," Scott told reporters at a news conference in Tallahassee.
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"Rejecting No-deal-Brexit by a large cross-party majority will unite millions in the UK & in Europe," he added in a tweet addressed to the British.
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"We need a commission," he said, stating a need to push for patients, cross-party politicians, policymakers and medical practitioners to come together to define health care.
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Corbyn and May held six weeks of cross-party talks in a bid to break an impasse over Brexit but those ended without any agreement on Friday.
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Sterling has weakened more than 1% this month as deadlocked cross-party talks expose deep political divisions over how, when and even if Brexit should take place.
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Ultimately, only Democrats will be able to claim a "bipartisan vote," having convinced Romney to cross party lines and vote to convict Trump on the first article.
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Sterling has weakened more than 87.353% this month as deadlocked cross-party talks expose deep political divisions over how, when and even if Brexit should take place.
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A cross-party group of MPs is now trying out a variety of ways to force the government to take a no-deal Brexit off the table.
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Their biggest accomplishments were cross-party in nature: leading the wartime coalition for Churchill, passing the 1867 Reform Act with the support of radical Liberals for Disraeli.
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The industry has come under fire from both sides of the aisle, and the network said it would not hesitate to cross party lines to defend innovation.
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Should they lose either chamber it could force cross-party compromise, but more probably will prevent all but the most anodyne or most essential laws being passed.
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In protest at the current mood, a march against anti-Semitism on February 19th drew a cross-party collection of politicians and some 20,000 people in Paris.
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The cross-party Work and Pensions Committee on Tuesday launched an investigation into the impact of BHS's failure on the industry levy funded Pension Protection Fund (PPF).
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Last month a cross-party commission was set up in parliament to investigate the banking scandals, though it is unlikely to complete its work before the election.
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The vote will be a test of center-right President Mauricio Macri's ability to garner cross-party support for his reform package to revive the struggling economy.
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That means Democrats are hoping to convince two Republican senators, Maine Senator Susan Collins and Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, to cross party lines and oppose Kavanaugh's nomination.
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The theories cross party lines and have been pushed by conservatives who want to see the Clintons taken down, and liberals who want Trump's administration held accountable.
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It depends on whether lawmakers can find the courage to cross party lines and make the hard choices needed to tackle the deficit that affects us all.
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By the time she sought cross-party talks with Labour in April 2019, the parliamentary divisions were too deep and May's credibility with opposition parties too low.
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The motion demanded that either the process of leaving the EU be extended or that the SNP seeks cross-party political consensus for a second Brexit vote.
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A cross-party parliamentary committee in Stockholm is currently reviewing central bank legislation to examine whether banks should be forced to provide cash services for their customers.
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This amendment, tabled by the former cabinet minister and Labour Party politician Yvette Cooper, is gathering wide cross-party support and has a good chance of success.
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The banks have already faced a grilling in recent months by cross-party parliamentary committees over scandals including providing misleading financial advice, insurance fraud and rate-rigging.
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Hurd represents a swing district and has a reputation as a moderate Republican who is willing to cross party lines to criticize the President in certain instances.
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This is especially the case, as it required a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament and cross-party consensus for passage as a constitutional amendment.
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The party wants to build a cross-party coalition to scrap Trident, whose nuclear weapons have been based in Scotland&aposs River Clyde for half a century.
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Cross-party cooperation enabled that legislative hustle, resulting in a 415-2 passage vote Wednesday in the House and a 33-1 vote in the Senate. Sen.
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Mitt Romney of Utah, the other Republican who voted for witnesses, appears to be the only Republican remaining who could cross party lines to convict the President.
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In a sign of Louisiana's Republican bent — and of Edwards's cross-party appeal — voters easily re-elected the top two Republican incumbents on the ballot on Saturday.
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U. campaigners are urging voters to cross party lines in the June 8 elections to try to restrict the scale of Prime Minister Theresa May's probable victory.
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Britain's cross-party Treasury Select Committee of lawmakers on Thursday said it is launching an inquiry into digital currencies, as well as the underlying distributed ledger technology.
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In Maine, House Speaker Sara Gideon (D) wanted to encourage cross-party cooperation, so she ended the practice of having an aisle dividing Democratic and Republican members.
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Johnson was thwarted by a cross-party group of politicians on Saturday who voted on an amendment which postponed the "meaningful vote" on his new divorce deal.
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The body of cross-party politicians said given the concerns, U.K. negotiators should secure a "near frictionless" trade deal for the sector to avoid disruptive border delays.
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There is also broad cross-party opposition to an outright ban on gun ownership (93% of Republicans, 87% of independents and 83% of Democrats oppose that idea).
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Cross-party efforts to protect the Speaker from an attempted overthrow are already underway and MPs from Duddridge's own Tory party have publicly declared support for him.
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Here the 2008 Climate Change Act was passed with cross-party support, with only five of the more than 600 members of the House of Commons voting against.
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A cross-party committee said the British government should "lead by example" by resettling and employing refugees, especially those forcibly uprooted from their homes in sub-Saharan Africa.
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What began as a specific set of complaints from motorists in the countryside has mutated into a catch-all for France's grievances, which sometimes cross party political divides.
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A cross-party parliamentary committee called on the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to look into a merger that would reduce Britain's Big Six energy companies to five.
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Meaning, whether Democrat or Republican, glasses can help politicians increase the odds a member of the opposite party will support them and their success in cross-party elections.
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Instead, for the immediate future, both parties will likely have corporatist and populist wings, and businesses' successes will come from careful building and nurturing of cross-party coalitions.
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Cross-party tributes have been made to a 'rising star' in British politics, while a local man Thomas Mair, aged 52, has been arrested over the MP's murder.
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"As Ofcom considers how to improve Britain's broadband, it should feel emboldened to know it has cross-party political support to be radical," Chief Executive Dido Harding said.
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Nevertheless, a government can also deliver this on a cross-party basis, finding the majority support for a referendum on the deal stretching across political parties in Westminster.
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Without shared positions on issues such as privatisation, liberalisation and fiscal policy, a cross-party coalition could find it hard to agree on the economic reforms Italy needs.
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He is distrusted by the hard-right, who call him a backer of "amnesty" because he once worked with a cross-party group of senators on immigration reform.
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Ryan was visiting Britain with a cross-party delegation of lawmakers as part of a trip to reassure European allies of U.S. commitment to the NATO military alliance.
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Her message was that country is more important than party, and that Republicans should cross party lines to vote for the former secretary of State and against Trump.
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Spelman is an alto in the Parliament Choir, a cross-party choral society that rehearses every Monday night in the ornate, gilded chapel in the bowels of Westminster.
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It was a reminder that, in today's divided politics, it is hard to find anything like the cross-party alliances McCain made with Democrats such as former Sens.
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The issue will come to a head Thursday as a cross-party group of U.K. lawmakers has successfully scheduled a debate and vote in the House of Commons.
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It seems likely to decrease the gap between liberals and conservatives about basic facts and to diffuse some of the cross-party animosity that is so prevalent today.
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A cross-party group of MPs wrote to Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay calling for the government to release analysis of how Johnson's deal would affect the UK economy.
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The AKP, founded by Erdogan more than a decade ago, has broad cross-party support for overhauling the constitution, which dates back to an era of military coups.
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Theresa May has indicated her willingness to work with Labour to break the Brexit impasse, offering fresh concessions on workers' rights and calling for further cross-party talks.
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Regardless of his shakier polling these days, rising partisanship and the parties' firmer ideological grip means fewer voters cross party lines, making landslides a thing of the past.
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He has kept his powder dry on the Gorsuch nomination so far, declining to signal whether he'd support a filibuster or cross party lines to help break one.
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These discussions have included Unite To Remain, the cross-party group set up by independent MP Heidi Allen, which is working on arranging electoral pacts across the country.
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When Clinton served in the Senate, she was a member of this group of female senators and has personal relations with many of them that cross party lines.
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OTTAWA — What was supposed to be a historic display of swift action and cross-party collaboration on Tuesday afternoon staggered across the finish line at 5:51 a.m.
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The converse is also true: Despite Trump's theory of how endorsements work, none of the senators who've endorsed him were willing to cross party lines on his behalf.
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The plan was introduced by the current Social Democrat-Green coalition and has received cross-party support from main opposition party the Moderates, as well as the Liberals.
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Last week a group of cross-party MPs involved in the taxi all-party parliamentary group (APPG) yesterday called for TfL to revoke Uber's licence over safety concerns.
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It had long seemed possible that a cross-party consensus for a softer Brexit existed within the House of Commons, but that proved not to be the case.
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What to watch: Parliament returns from recess next week, where its first order of business will be staging a cross-party rebellion to stop a no-deal Brexit.
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was thwarted by a cross-party group of politicians in Parliament who voted to postpone the "meaningful vote" on his new Brexit deal.
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In Britain, political loyalties run deep, making it hard to organize campaigns that cross party lines, even when parties have internal divisions over issues like the Europe Union.
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Given the combination of rising polarization, Trump's unprecedentedly low approval ratings, and Trump's unique personal attributes, an unprecedented lack of cross-party support is probably to be expected.
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One of the (many) criticisms May has faced during this whole years-long Brexit negotiation debacle has been her apparent unwillingness to build cross-party support for Brexit.
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His problem with Comey is that he wasn't enough of a Trump loyalist, but traditionally FBI directors are people with a reputation for independence and cross-party appeal.
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So Britain needs to reach a cross-party agreement on the basic principles of Brexit, and then find a way to make the consensus stick, whoever is in power.
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In April, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Refugees, which consists of cross-party members of parliament, urged the interior ministry to extend the period to 50 days.
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Lebanon's parliament approved the new law on 16 June 2017, following cabinet approval of a cross-party agreement to adopt proportional representation and reduce the number of electoral districts.
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Just click on the linked titles (which are in no particular order) to find out more: Full Fact have a cross-party board and a conflict of interest policy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's cross-party Treasury Select Committee of lawmakers on Thursday said it is launching an inquiry into digital currencies, as well as the underlying distributed ledger technology.
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Fortunately, such a body—cross-party, decentralised and united by its commitment to an effective, energetic British role in Europe—will already exist on June 24th: the Remain campaign.
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It says -- like Schumer did on that Thursday afternoon in July 2016 -- that those same voters will cross party lines to back a responsible alternative to the irresponsible Trump.
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Republicans had never expected to be competing for a Senate seat in ruby-red Tennessee, but Bredesen's cross-party appeal and Trump's sagging popularity have made the race competitive.
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Rather than try and seek cross-party consensus, the prime minister opted to try and court Tory MPs who had opposed her deal by pledging to replace the backstop.
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"We are confident in the decades-long, cross-party consensus on light-touch Internet regulation — one that helped America's digital economy thrive," he said, according to his prepared remarks.
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Many of the votes are thought to have been cast by Republicans displeased by Mr. Moore but unwilling to cross party lines, and who wanted to register a protest.
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After weeks of criticizing Republican leaders for failing to pass legislation, Mr. Trump signaled that he was willing to cross party lines to score some much-desired legislative victories.
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Under the current party splits, the chamber's supermajority threshold on the filibuster would require either seven Democrats or 13 Republicans to cross party lines on any immigration bill. Sen.
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As Republicans rallied behind President Trump, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, the party's 2012 presidential nominee, joined Democrats in voting to convict, the only senator to cross party lines.
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The Times MPs will begin a cross-party attempt to stop a Brexiteer prime minister such as Boris Johnson taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal. bit.
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Speaking about the recent US legislation, which allows ISP to sell their customers web history to advertisers, Berners-Lee said there should have been cross-party opposition to the bill.
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The idea, he declared, was to "unblock" France, build cross-party support for reform among those willing to forego party dogma, and bring fresh faces and new thinking into politics.
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As skepticism grew over a cross-party deal, the pound has embarked on nine straight sessions of losses versus the euro, marking the longest unbroken run of losses this century.
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Thunberg has been invited by a cross-party group of politicians to attend a French parliament committee meeting and will watch a plenary session from the public gallery on Tuesday.
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That was brought home a day later when MPs voted against leaving the European Union with no deal, on a motion proposed by cross-party backbenchers rather than the government.
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And few public servants possess the skills and cross-party support to navigate through these months with a promise of clear answers, free of politicization, endless leaks and fruitless drama.
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Until now, Mr Hollande's hard-line security policy has drawn broad cross-party support, which will only grow after police foiled an apparent terror attempt in Paris on January 7th.
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Working late into Monday night, MPs (Members of Parliament) voted to pass an amendment proposed by a cross-party group of lawmakers in the hope of finding a Brexit solution.
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In the Senate, the cross-party bill faced more opposition from the left than it had in the House, where over four in five Democrats backed it on June 9th.
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Common ground may be hard to see, but there is reason to hope that members of the next Congress can cross party lines to tackle an increasingly unstable global environment.
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Below are the amendments which have been put forward: This has been proposed by a cross-party group of lawmakers, led by Oliver Letwin, a member of May's Conservative Party.
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The FTSE 250 advanced 0.5%, though gains were limited by steep drops in gambling firms after a cross-party group of UK lawmakers called for measures to overhaul online casinos.
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And given the tribal nature of modern politics, it's unlikely a sizable number of Republican voters are poised to cross party lines to deliver this crucial seat to a Democrat.
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The agreement, which was brokered by a cross-party group called Unite to Remain, does not cover Labour, which will stand candidates in all seats at the December 12 election.
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If these voters decide to stay home because of the sexual misconduct accusations — these conservatives are highly unlikely to cross party lines — it would greatly complicate the Republican's electoral math.
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Over the next few months, we'll get a torrent of news about how the presidential candidates are using their campaigns to try to convince moderate voters to cross party lines.
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For any Republican to win, he or she would need a considerable number of city voters to cross party lines, given that Democrats hold a six-to-one registration advantage.
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Notably, the poll further showed cross-party support for Menendez to resign if convicted, with 77% of Democrats, 90% of Republicans and 88% of independents saying he should step down.
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No lawmaker is expected to cross party lines, and House Democratic leaders are eyeing a final vote to impeach the president for high crimes and misdemeanors as early as Tuesday.
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There is also cross-party consensus regarding Russia as America's pre-eminent adversary, as evident in the maintenance of economic sanctions for Moscow's attack on Ukraine and the U.S. elections.
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"Voters don't normally choose more moderate candidates when given the chance to cross party lines, because it turns out 'moderates' aren't that moderate," says UC Berkeley political science Doug Ahler.
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On the back-end of politics, this sort of cross-party working has the potential to pass legislation in a way that might be harder under the current bare-knuckle system.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A proposal to stop sales of new combustion-engine cars by 2030 has gained cross-party support in Germany's Bundesrat, the country's upper house of parliament, Der Spiegel reported.
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The British parliament's cross-party Treasury Committee criticized the 4,300 pound figure for being unrealistically precise, and for potentially misleading households into thinking their disposable income would fall by 4,300 pounds.
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To explain why democracy feels gridlocked, Mr Kasich points to partisans who now consume political news like a "hobby", and who use primary elections to punish legislators who cross party lines.
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Speaking on BBC Radio Friday, the chair of a cross-party committee designed to probe the Brexit process said a failure of talks meant a second vote would be more likely.
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Mr Meade's cross-party background buttresses Mr López Obrador's claim that there is no difference between the big parties, and that only he can rescue Mexico from the "mafia of power".
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The newspaper claimed Corbyn was prepared to join a cross-party effort to make Blair stand trial as war criminal at the International Criminal Court, citing unnamed officials in Corbyn's office.
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While overall roll-off is understandably lower in US House races, with their higher spending and visibility, the gap between cross-party and same-party runoffs is pretty similar across races.
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Requirements should be stringent and breaches should carry substantial financial penalties, as is the case when it comes to preventing money-laundering and protecting personal data, the cross-party committee said.
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The U.K.'s political future looks as uncertain as ever this week with cross-party talks over Brexit still bearing no compromise ahead of crucial decisions that need to be made.
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CNN's first four town halls performed exceptionally well relative to regular programming, with the fourth on Tuesday – an intriguing cross-party debate on the future of ObamaCare between polar opposites Sen.
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As long as there were conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans willing to cross party lines, it was possible to create bipartisan bills and have much of the lawmaking accomplished in committee.
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While the Hastert rule prevents a minority faction of Republicans from working with Democrats to form a cross-party alliance, the Tea Party and Freedom Caucus folks further enforce ideological discipline.
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Chuka Umunna, an opposition Labour leader of a cross-party parliamentary group seeking closer EU ties, called Tuesday's report "the latest Project Fantasy document from advocates of an ultra-hard Brexit".
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Earlier this month, the leader of the small, center-right Liberal Party called for the Sweden Democrats to be allowed to take part in cross-party discussions led by the government.
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Lib Dem MP Heidi Allen has already launched a cross-party organisation called Unite to Remain which is in talks with pro-Remain parties about work together at the next election.
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The main opposition Labour Party and a cross-party group of senior lawmakers have put forward amendments to block May's EU withdrawal deal and to rule out a no-deal Brexit.
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It was neoconservatives who fired the first shots in the GOP establishment's war on Trump's foreign policy, and largely neoconservatives who have declared they will cross party lines to oppose him.
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Saturday, at 10 am, in front of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC, two Christian faith leaders will spearhead a thousands-strong interfaith cross-party rebuke to that theology.
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This starts with embracing the "high expectations" and values he ascribes to the country's historical and intellectual founders, and recognizing that real cross-party discourse can strengthen and protect American democracy.
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Even if some cross-party agreement can be reached, it looks unlikely to be approved by Parliament before Britain's immediate fate is decided at a meeting in Brussels next Wednesday. Mrs.
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May's cross-party initiative threatens to drag him into the Brexit maelstrom, threatening to tear apart the Labour Party, which, like the Conservatives, is internally divided on the stay/leave issue.
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Cross-party cooperation goes so profoundly against the grain, in Britain's old, tribal Parliament, that Wednesday had a slightly unreal feeling, as if the laws of physics had been suspended. Mrs.
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The British Parliament's cross-party Treasury Committee on Friday wrote to Finance Minister Sajid Javid urging him to publish updated economic forecasts in the event that Johnson's deal passes on Saturday.
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The report, published by the cross-party House of Lords, said post-Brexit, Britain's energy trading outside of Europe's Internal Energy Market will likely be less efficient than the current arrangements.
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The allegations cross party and state lines, targeting some of the most powerful men in state government, from Kentucky's House Speaker to the chairmen of prominent committees in Florida and Minnesota.
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But the reality is that after three attempts to secure parliamentary agreement, we will not leave the European Union unless we have a deal that can command wider cross-party support.
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The ruling AK Party, founded by President Tayyip Erdogan more than a decade ago, has broad cross-party support for overhauling the constitution, which dates back to an era of military coups.
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Schulz has cross-party support in parliament for his efforts to strengthen its legislative role but opponents complain that his double act with Juncker makes the parliament seem soft on the executive.
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The cross-party report said that if the CMA opts for only operational separation, it should be reviewed after three years to see if it ends cross-subsidies and improved audit quality.
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He was a Republican point man on the cross-party "Gang of Eight" immigration bill to extend a citizenship path to 11 million people, and pushed back against runaway hatred of Obama.
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Although Yu says the bill is unlikely to pass soon, she has cross-party support and believes marriage equality will be realized by the end of Tsai's term -- which runs until 2020.
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Earlier this month a cross-party group of MPs wrote to TfL arguing that Uber is an "unfit and improper operator", and accusing it of not doing enough to protect passenger safety.
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Since Ryan started advising me we've achieved so much: we've nailed the complex legal argument and had it verified by various experts, we've been to parliament, and we've secured cross-party support.
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Gabbard, who identifies as a progressive on most issues, has attracted cross-party attention — including from right-wing outlets like Breitbart and Fox News — as a result of her anti-war message.
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Currently Kyrgyzstan has 23 women among its 120 MPs, all of whom are members of a cross-party group founded in 2011 credited with putting women and girls on the legislative agenda.
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UBS Global Wealth Management said it foresees a long extension to Brexit, because it doubted May's attempt to build a cross-party consensus would succeed and expected the pound to remain volatile.
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As a result, the plebiscite is non-binding, but the government says a "yes" vote will lead to a conscience vote on the issue in Parliament, where politicians can cross party lines.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must commit to projects to capture, store and use carbon dioxide emissions to meet its climate targets, a report from a cross-party group of lawmakers said on Thursday.
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However, a cross-party group of lawmakers, who support a "soft Brexit" have demanded a greater say for parliament in negotiations and say they might try to pass amendments that guarantee this.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's support for oil and gas exploration in the Arctic is incompatible with its international climate change commitments, a report from a cross-party group of lawmakers said on Thursday.
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The Centre and Liberals have said they do not want to split the Alliance, but that they would look for some kind of cross-party arrangement if it ends up being smaller.
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I wonder if there are some states where Democratic and Republican Party leaders would be willing to host cross-party conversations — not in the heat of the electoral cycle, but after it.
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Labour's Brexit pointman, Keir Starmer, told The Guardian newspaper that any cross-party deal lacking a confirmatory referendum would not pass parliament as about 150 Labour lawmakers would oppose such a deal.
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None have the liabilities of Mr. Moore, who motivated a surge of black Democratic voters while prompting some Alabama Republicans to cross party lines and others to stay home from the polls.
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Having Parliament state its preferences could allow some form of cross-party consensus to emerge in favor of a form of Brexit that keeps closer ties to the European Union than Mrs.
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But he cautioned that politics could have an impact on sterling this week if a cross-party and non-binding technical vote on Brexit on Thursday threatened Prime Minister Theresa May's leadership.
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People are now much more reluctant to cross party lines when it comes to finding mates, and whether the person is a Trump supporter is something you need to find out ASAP.
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Republicans are likely to invest heavily in Washington, Nevada and New Mexico, all states where Democrats narrowly control both chambers, and in Alaska, where a cross-party coalition controls the state House.
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Bookmakers Ladbrokes Coral and William Hill fell 7.3 percent and 8.7 percent respectively after The Times reported a cross-party group of MPs would demand on Thursday stricter controls on betting machines.
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Cross-party applause for the president on such a night is normally a pro forma affair, overlooked in the sea of stirring words penned by a speechwriter and recited from a teleprompter.
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The critical report by the cross-party Committee on Exiting the European Union, agreed unanimously and published on Sunday, will help lawmakers decide how to vote, said the committee's chairman Hilary Benn.
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There could be a left-right cross-party coalition forming around, say, economic development in areas hit hard by the decline of the coal industry or one advocating stronger supports for Social Security.
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Mr. Kasich, whose second-place showing in New Hampshire was fueled by support from independents, is hoping to replicate such cross-party appeal in South Carolina but faces a far stiffer test here.
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In October of that year, when the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross party took power in Hungary, thousands of Jews from Budapest were murdered on the banks of the Danube, according to Yad Vashem.
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Sterling hit a four-month low after cross-party Brexit talks collapsed and concern grew about the impact Prime Minister Theresa May's likely resignation would have on Britain's exit from the European Union.
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TLP has lined up the required £1.3bn of private finance, a manufacturing supply chain and cross-party support in the Welsh Assembly, which likes the look of the jobs that it could bring.
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May's spokesperson has confirmed that her administration has "talked about entering new cross-party talks" with Labour, and it seems the only way Brexit happens is if it's softer than its current form.
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The franchising model, also part of the reason for delays on a contract in the London area, has come under fire recently with a cross-party parliamentary committee calling it "broken" in April.
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Liberal senator Dean Smith has proposed a cross-party marriage equality bill, which has been praised by the Prime Minister as a good starting point, with ample discrimination protection for same-sex couples.
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The Senate has slated a meeting of its cross-party steering committee for April 28 to examine the matter after accusations by politicians that Oudea misled senators when giving testimony in April 2012.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Political paralysis persists in Spain 10 days into the new minority government's mandate as it has been unable even to convene urgent cross-party talks on a budget for next year.
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In a series of votes on Wednesday evening a cross-party group of lawmakers will attempt to push through legislation to stop a no-deal Brexit, the biggest downside risk for the pound.
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A cross-party parliamentary committee last month recommended that the state legislate to allow terminations with no restrictions up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy, a more liberal position than some had anticipated.
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While the political turmoil has led to an unprecedented level of cross-party cooperation, many in Johnson's Conservative Party and others would still find it difficult to vote for a Corbyn-led administration.
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Such votes could be forced on the government on Wednesday if the proposal to take control of the business in parliament, put forward by the cross-party group of lawmakers, passes on Monday.
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Opposition groupings expressed guarded approval of the military's actions, with the caveat that there should be a cross-party process of democratization, free elections and an end to the flouting of human rights.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British government's Clean Growth Strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not be enough to meet legally binding climate change targets, a committee of cross-party lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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A cross-party group of lawmakers have also submitted a similar amendment, blocking May's deal and ruling out a "no-deal" Brexit, and then giving parliament a greater say over what happens next.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A senior British lawmaker leading a review of the world's top accounting firms said on Thursday there is cross-party consensus for change, calling the approach of the "Big Four" complacent.
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The short version of the implication is that most likely this will reduce polarization, because it splits the parties on economic issues and thus creates a whole new set of cross-party coalitions.
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The pound's bounce came after a British cross-party alliance defeated Prime Minister Boris Johnson in an effort to block a "no-deal" Brexit, leading the premier to push for a snap election.
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The pound's strengthening back to about $1.20 came after a cross-party alliance defeated Johnson in an effort to block a "no-deal" Brexit, leading the premier to push for a snap election.
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His fundraising efforts have been less than spectacular, but he told me he thinks he has a shot, particularly with Democrats whom he hopes will cross party lines to vote against Trump twice.
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But there is no indication that an effective cross-party revolt will emerge in favor of an alternative, softer Brexit deal, as some in Brussels were hoping — or at least not in time.
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The online statement also said Chen Bo, local Red Cross Party member, and Gao Qin, vice chair and party secretary of the local Red Cross, received warnings and penalties to a lesser degree.
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House Democrats' drive to impeach the president has not helped either, intensifying the cross-party divide and sucking up time leaders could be spending on the quest to lock down a funding deal.
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Naomi Long, leader of the centrist non sectarian Alliance Party will be Justice Minister, and in a show of cross party support, Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey was elected as Speaker with DUP backing.
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British bookmakers Ladbrokes Coral and William Hill fell 2.7 percent and 6 percent respectively after The Times reported a cross-party group of lawmakers would demand on Thursday stricter controls on betting machines.
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Tracey Crouch will take on the role and lead a cross-party group, honoring a recommendation made in a report on the 2016 murder of Jo Cox MP by a right-wing extremist.
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"The more polarized the political landscape, the less possibility there is for cross-party dialogue," Ben-Ghiat said, "and initiatives of the type that one needs to safeguard democracy and limit executive overreach."
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Earlier this month, a cross-party group of lawmakers called for a raft of measures to overhaul online casinos including banning the use of credit cards and limiting maximum stakes in online gambling.
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In the most recent election, workers showed how powerfully they can upend political prognostications when they want to — and how much they are willing to cross party lines to get what they want.
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Earlier this month, a cross-party group of lawmakers called for a raft of measures to overhaul online casinos including banning the use of credit cards and limiting maximum stakes in online gambling.
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The couple are donating $10 million to the With Honor Fund, a so-called super PAC that supports military veterans running for Congress who vow to take a cross-party approach to governing.
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Shortly after securing the votes needed to avoid a general election, May urged other party leaders to hold cross-party talks in an effort to break the current deadlock on a Brexit divorce deal.
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In May 2017, an analysis of its legislative output showed that, since that January, it had introduced a higher ratio of bills with cross-party support than any Congress since the 2005-6 session.
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"Sterling rallied following the defeat of the withdrawal agreement due to strong cross-party support to prevent a no deal from occurring on 29 March," analysts at ANZ Research wrote in a morning note.
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They could also be joined by disaffected pro-Remain MPs from the governing Conservative party — including those who have been involved in cross-party efforts with Umunna to push for a second EU referendum.
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Two other bills aimed at creating a more consistent and comprehensive replacement for the government's outdated broadband coverage maps are making their way through the house and senate respectively with similar cross-party support.
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"I take it very seriously and I will be pushing it forward with absolute energy," Stewart, 46, told an inquiry led by the cross-party International Development Committee (IDC), which scrutinizes Britain's aid department.
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During a forum, Arrington had previously said she supported Trump's lifting the ban on offshore drilling in the United States, which was enough for two Republican mayors to cross party lines and endorse Cunningham.
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Pashinyan, who was the only candidate for the post, had called on individual lawmakers to cross party lines and support him after the ruling Republican Party said that it would not vote for him.
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Nicholas Watt, political editor of the BBC Newsnight programme, said he understood that the cross-party search for a solution would end soon, after Conservative officials gave up on the phase of the talks.
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Nicholas Watt, political editor of the BBC Newsnight program, said he understood that the cross-party search for a solution would end soon, after Conservative officials gave up on the phase of the talks.
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The main sticking-point in the cross-party talks is the question of a customs union with the EU. Labour wants Britain to remain in one permanently, but this is anathema to Tory Brexiteers.
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The AK Party has broad cross-party support for overhauling Turkey's constitution, which dates back to an era of military coups, but there are wide divergences over what a new charter should look like.
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Rajoy, who will head a minority government with the weakest mandate in Spain's modern history, is working on a new cabinet that must build cross-party support to pass reforms in a hostile parliament.
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A cross-party committee has listed more than 3,700 suggested changes for debate in parliament, ranging from minor tweaks to more radical changes including removing a clause that blocks Suu Kyi from the presidency.
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Britain is set to enforce greater transparency in tax havens after a minister for the U.K. government announced Tuesday it would not oppose a legal amendment proposed by a cross-party alliance of lawmakers.
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MILAN, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Shares in British gambling companies fell sharply on Monday after a cross-party group of lawmakers called for a raft of measures to overhaul online casinos and protect vulnerable people.
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Even as Trump's approval flagged across the country, he remained popular among a wide swath of Missourians — and McCaskill needed to persuade a share of his supporters to cross party lines and back her.
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While the political turmoil of the last year has led to an unprecedented level of cross-party cooperation, many in Johnson's Conservative Party and others would still find it difficult to vote for Corbyn.
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A cross-party commission charged with drafting a new constitution collapsed last month after the main opposition pulled out over attempts by the AKP to change Turkey from a parliamentary to a presidential system.
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If the PD initiative ultimately failed, he said his group would not back any mooted attempt to create a cross-party government of technocrats — a mechanism used by previous presidents to overcome political crises.
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On Wednesday, A Scottish judge rejected an attempt by a cross-party group of lawmakers to block Johnson's move to suspend parliament, saying the case was essentially a political matter for politicians to settle.
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Under the cross-party deal, the government has said it will cut income taxes for top earners from the start of next year, increase climate taxes and take steps to deregulate the labor market.
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The binding option - A cross-party group of lawmakers, led by the Labour Party's Yvette Cooper, are proposing a plan that would give parliament the legal power to force May to seek an extension.
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There aren't a lot of democratic institutions anywhere in the world that give individual members or small groups the opportunity to raise new ideas, challenge an old consensus, or form durable cross-party coalitions.
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So — significantly, and as was also evident in the US Senate and Congress — Facebook was taking flak from both left and right of political spectrum, implying broad, cross-party support for regulating these algorithmic platforms.
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Gallup notes, however, that while Bush is the least popular candidate among Republican respondents, Donald Trump actually has the lowest net favorability among a cross-party sampling of Americans: -26 for Trump, -13 for Bush.
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Diaz, the chief of the Andalusia region - a Socialist stronghold and Spain's most populous autonomous community - already has a track record of reaching cross-party compromises at local level and could take a different path.
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For those who have healthy skepticism of the potential bipartisan consensus on this issue, consider the cross-party coalition currently at work in the Senate to pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017.
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Vulnerable red-state Democrats like Joe Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp, and Joe Donnelly — all of whom voted in favor of Justice Neil Gorsuch's confirmation last year — are among the senators who might cross party lines again.
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Policymaking will likely become more complex and require broader cross-party agreements and discipline with eurosceptic and anti-establishment groups estimated to have increased their weight, said analysts from Deutsche Bank research in a note.
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We know that women are more likely than men to back legislation that helps American families; they are also more likely to collaborate and seek compromise, forging personal and professional relationships that cross party lines.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will replace its top electoral officials, a cross-party parliamentary committee said on Tuesday, granting victory to the opposition which had branded them biased and led protests for them to be sacked.
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The cross-party vote was technical and non-binding but shows the deep divisions over Brexit across the Houses of Parliament and adds to speculation that Prime Minister Theresa May's leadership could come under threat.
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But cross-party gangs of Remainer MPs are planning to add amendments to legislation, forcing the government to try to maintain membership of Euratom, for instance, which governs the transit of radioactive material in Europe.
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Many opposition members of parliament, and more moderate members of her party, say May focused too much on appeasing hardline Conservative eurosceptics and ought to have held cross-party discussions quickly to involve more sides.
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But the most promising is to agree as part of a cross-party deal to put the outcome to a confirmatory referendum, an idea that lost by only 12 votes in the Commons this week.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling dived to a four-month low on Friday after cross-party Brexit talks collapsed and concern grew about the impact Prime Minister Theresa May's likely resignation would have on Britain's EU divorce.
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A cross-party group of members of Parliament has succeeded in getting pardons for thousands of other men, both living and dead, who still have criminal convictions on their records because of their sexual orientation.
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Martin raised the prospect of a more protracted delay on Monday by calling for a cross-party deal on reforming parliament before any coalition talks, a process he said could take more than a month.
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Under a separate cross-party proposal, parliament would choose between leaving the EU without a deal or stopping Brexit altogether if they were the only two options left, Jo Maugham, a lawyer and campaigner, said.
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Among the people whose names have been mentioned as possible successors to Gauck are Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, 73, and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, 60, although both might struggle to win cross-party support.
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British government bond yields rose as much as seven basis points as investors reduced their holdings of safe assets following May's announcement she was seeking cross-party talks to resolve the political impasse over Brexit.
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If cross-party mind-reading was a chore in the past, it confronts many partisans in 2016 with a nearly impossible conundrum: like asking vegans to order for the steak-lovers at the next table.
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It is a far bleaker appeal than Ronald Reagan's message of American exceptionalism and Mr. Clinton's promise to restore "the forgotten middle class," both of which inspired white working-class voters to cross party lines.
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In the heart of Trump country, the moderate Edwards cobbled together enough cross-party support with his focus on bipartisan, state-specific issues to defeat Republican businessman Eddie Rispone, getting about 51% of the vote.
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"This government has no mandate for No Deal, and the 2016 EU referendum provided no mandate for No Deal," Corbyn said in the letter to other opposition party leaders, and high profile cross-party politicians.
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A cross-party group of lawmakers, led by the Labour Party's Yvette Cooper, will propose a plan that would give parliament the legal power to force May to seek an extension to the negotiating period.
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Carmen Calvo, a Socialist party lawmaker who is participating in cross-party talks on the crisis, told Spanish broadcaster RTVE that the opposition would back the Spanish government in calling for fresh elections in January.
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Prime Minister Theresa May sought to rekindle cross-party talks about her Brexit deal yesterday, just days before Britain is due to leave the E.U. without a deal, Benjamin Mueller of the NYT reports: • Mrs.
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Johnson was thwarted by a cross-party group of politicians who voted to postpone the "meaningful vote" on his new divorce deal and force him to ask Brussels for an extension to the current Oct.
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May, who has offered to quit if parliament accepts her Brexit deal, opened cross-party talks with the Labour Party more than a month ago after parliament rejected her European Union withdrawal deal three times.
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The 2015 debate over whether to approve trade negotiating authority for President Obama to finish the TPP negotiations featured searching hearings, in-depth committee consideration, numerous floor amendments, and creative compromises through cross-party alliances.
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May, who has offered to quit if MPs accept her Brexit deal, opened cross-party talks with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party more than a month ago after parliament rejected her European Union withdrawal deal three times.
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To remove a president from office requires 67 Senate votes, meaning it would need to be a fully bipartisan undertaking, and there's just no evidence that anything like a cross-party anti-Trump consensus is emerging.
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Emerging democratic groups tell me they are all too familiar with unaccountable government, corruption at the highest levels, abusing judicial power to go after political rivals, and pliant legislators unable or unwilling to cross party heads.
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Sterling rose further as traders welcomed news that Britain's May would begin cross-party talks with the opposition Labour party as a signal that Britain will end up with a "softer" exit from the European Union.
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Cross-party talks between two leaders notoriously reluctant to compromise may well fail, but if that happens Mrs May has offered to be bound by whatever solution MPs themselves support in further rounds of Commons voting.
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"As we approach Christmas there are thousands of children in temporary accommodation — a salutary reminder of the human cost of policy failure," opposition politician Meg Hillier, who chairs the cross-party committee, said in a statement.
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Cat Smith is currently trying to get cross-party support from pro-choice MPs in the House of Commons to move the conversation on around the decriminalisation of abortion and the overall reform of existing legislation.
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Its director, Will Straw, says it is a broad cross-party group akin to the Better Together group that won the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, but intent on making a more positive and patriotic case.
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But the APPG on fair business banking, a cross-party group of lawmakers, said that while widening the FOS' remit was a good first step, but the government must now introduce a complementary Financial Services Tribunal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling was little changed on Monday after a newspaper report suggested the British parliament might still reach a cross-party deal on Brexit, though doubts about such an agreement kept the currency from gaining.
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Demonstrators held a cross-party "Republic and Democracy" rally in Istanbul's central Taksim Square in a spirit of unity following the failed coup, in which at least 246 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured.
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Even the Koch brothers' network is making noises that it's now open to building cross-party coalitions to enact items on its agenda, recognizing the limits of solely siding with a Trump-addled, demographically-challenged GOP.
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UBS Global Wealth Management said it foresees a long extension to Article 50 as it expects May's attempt to build a cross-party consensus to be unlikely to succeed and expected the pound to remain volatile.
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The cross-party committee of members of Britain's parliament said the deal could reduce competition and affect consumers as together with Centrica's British Gas, the combined company would control more than half of the UK market.
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It follows Corbyn's cross-party call to back him in leading a "strictly time-limited" government that would extend Article 50 before calling a general election, which he would need a majority of MPs to support.
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Her failure to strike a cross-party compromise lies in no small part with the Labour leader, who, as May noted in January, was quicker to meet with paramilitary groups than with his own prime minister.
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The new approach to pot policy in the UK — one that's as lucrative as it is radical — has gained the support of a cross-party collection of British politicians, including former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
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The bill, which enjoys some cross-party support between conservatives and centrists, will now pass to the floor of the upper house of Congress for discussion and possible approval late on Wednesday or on Thursday morning.
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In practical terms, it means that next year, in order to get attention, an individual Democratic Senator will either need to be in leadership, willing to cross party lines on key issues, or running for president.
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Jakli said not all of the order's members collaborated with the Nazis, and some of them were even in conflict with the Arrow Cross Party, the group that would go on to commit the Hungarian Holocaust.
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Demonstrators held a cross-party "Republic and Democracy" rally in Istanbul's central Taksim Square in a spirit of unity following the failed coup, in which at least 28 people were killed and more than 81,230 injured.
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Demonstrators held a cross-party "Republic and Democracy" rally in Istanbul's central Taksim Square in a spirit of unity following the failed coup, in which at least 234 people were killed and more than 256,19803 injured.
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ET. The Senate is poised to acquit Trump, as a conviction would require a two-thirds majority, but there still is some uncertainty over the margin of the vote — and whether any senators cross party lines.
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But it's the first time the group has been able to use its new political influence, at national and local level, to break the political consensus over gender violence, which has traditionally had cross-party support.
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Instead, she faced the resistance of a Democratic white political power structure in Georgia, that felt Democrats could not win unless the candidate was a moderate who could softly convince white Republicans to cross party lines.
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This week Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, produced six tests for judging if Labour should support the final deal, while a cross-party group under the auspices of Open Britain came up with ten points.
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Once elected—not knowing that she had only a year to live—she determined to grab the problem by the throat, establishing a cross-party Commission on Loneliness to "turbo-charge" society's response to an "unseen epidemic".
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ANTI-FEMINISM And Vox, with its openly anti-feminist stance, has set about challenging the reforms of recent years, mostly passed with cross-party backing, that have attempted to boost gender equality and stem violence against women.
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The ruling coalition and part of the opposition say the vote should be held in April 2018 and on Monday their agreement was ratified by delegates at cross-party talks in the capital, one party leader said.
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They have less than a month before parliamentary elections in which to persuade those not naturally drawn to Mr Macron to support his cross-party vision in the national interest, rather than obstruct it for partisan gain.
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Invited by a cross-party group of politicians, Thunberg and several other children spoke to a French parliamentary committee meeting and later watched from the public gallery as parliament voted on a controversial EU-Canada trade agreement.
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In 2016, a cross-party group of U.K. politicians called upon the government to legalize medical cannabis, stating that there was a sound evidence base that revealed cannabis could be effective for a number of chronic conditions.
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Carter did, eventually, get some significant legislation passed later in his presidency — but it tended to be legislation with broad cross-party support, like the Bayh-Dole Act reforming government-funded research, or the Airline Deregulation Act.
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While the parliament's backing is not binding on European governments, it represents a sign of cross-party political support for the European Union to pursue its most ambitious defense plan in decades after years of spending cuts.
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Kevin Hollinrake, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking, said the cross-party group would use public interest laws to publish the so-called 'Project Lord Turnbull Report', unless Lloyds itself publishes first.
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Renzi's Democratic Party (PD) pushed for the creation of a broad, cross-party coalition, but most other parties were opposed to such a government, the PD Senate leader Luigi Zanda said after meeting the head of state.
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It was deemed by the Electoral Commission to have broader cross-party support than its main rival, Grassroots Out, which relied heavily on UKIP's leader, Nigel Farage and the financial backing of Arron Banks, a wealthy businessman.
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ROME, Jan 30 (Reuters) - A cross-party parliamentary commission set up to look into the collapse of 10 Italian banks in the past two years has failed to agree on joint findings, political sources said on Tuesday.
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To form a new parliamentary majority with cross-party backing, Letwin said lawmakers would first have to agree a strategy for Brexit, revealing the divisions that have hampered pro-EU politicians since they lost the 2016 referendum.
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ROME (Reuters) - A cross-party parliamentary commission set up to look into the collapse of 10 Italian banks in the past two years has failed to agree on joint findings, with parties presenting their own conflicting conclusions.
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The cross-party committee's recommendations are not binding and the final wording of the planned referendum to change some of the world's strictest abortion laws will be down to the government and require the support of parliament.
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AMID AMERICA'S fractious political landscape, where cross-party trust is all but absent and bombast seems the currency of the day, concern is growing that wariness about foreign influence from Russia and China is morphing into paranoia.
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Below is what the next few days may hold: - Talks with the opposition Labour Party on agreeing a cross-party plan for the type of Brexit the country wants are likely to continue over the coming days.
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Rajoy's immediate opposition in the national parliament lacks the numbers to force him out through a no-confidence vote, but without cross-party support on Catalonia, he may be forced to call a snap national election himself.
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Coffman, for one, can proudly say he was not among those who voted for that unpopular action; he was among 15 Republican Nays, and I thank him for his willingness to cross party lines in this matter.
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That gives opposition parties the potential numbers to veto unpopular policies or even undo previous reforms such as the most recent labour market overhaul, though in practice the latter would require hard-to-reach cross-party agreements.
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The Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, and the Greens have made a decision brokered by cross-party group Unite to Remain to give each other's candidates a clear run against candidates from other parties in December's general election.
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Below is what the next few days may hold: - Talks with the opposition Labour Party on agreeing a cross-party plan for the type of Brexit the country wants are likely to continue over the coming days.
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There has been little parliamentary opposition in Mexico to trying to safeguard market access to United States, by far Mexico's top export destination, and the trade deal was approved with overwhelming cross-party support in the Senate.
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Proponents of limiting the impeachment inquiry argue that the Ukraine case makes for a fresher, simpler case to make to voters, but also that it could create space for national security-minded Republicans to cross party lines.
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Since House and Senate lawmakers have already left town for their Memorial Day recess, the objection likely causes a 10-day holdup in delivering aid that has already been delayed for five months amid cross-party sparring.
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After two weeks of public testimony and depositions, Democrats were unable to persuade Representative Will Hurd of Texas, a moderate Republican that many Democrats had hoped would cross party lines and come out in favor of impeachment.
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While Macron has pushed for a multi-speed Europe in which France and Germany lead the way, there is a cross-party consensus in Berlin that any reform push should include a broad swathe of EU members.
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Yaresko has been touted as a possible replacement, but the chances of that happening had appeared to fade last week after cross-party talks failed to achieve a breakthrough on how they would form a new government.
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"Mrs Litvinenko is extremely disappointed with the prime minister's hollow reasoning and politically opportunistic decision to maintain his refusal to publish the ISC report, notwithstanding the cross-party and public demand for this action," the statement said.
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A survey in August by polling firm Mitofsky showed the cross-party alliance coming first in a presidential vote with nearly 22 percent support, a few points ahead of the PRI or Lopez Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (MORENA).
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CCC Chief Executive Chris Stark told journalists the law could be in place before international climate talks in Chile at the end of the year since there is cross-party consensus in Britain on the need to act.
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Senior members of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Downing Street team want to legalize cannabis, as a cross-party group of MPs predicted that the UK will allow recreational use of the drug within 5 to 10 years.
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He promised to be a dealmaker, but his impulse to belittle his opponents and the miasma of scandal and leaks surrounding Russia's role in the campaign have made the chances of cross-party co-operation even more remote.
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Since 2016, the discomfort of cross-party dialogue has only grown: In October this year 53% of Americans said it was "stressful and frustrating" to have political conversations with those they disagree with, up from 46% in 2016.
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After a complaint presented by a group of cross-party lawmakers, parliamentary speaker John Bercow said he believed it could be argued that a contempt had been committed because of the failure to release the full legal advice.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - If British Prime Minister Theresa May wants a cross-party compromise on Brexit the first thing she needs to do is to extend the March 29 time limit, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Wednesday.
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The cross-party Treasury Committee said on Thursday it would also scrutinise the scale and nature of economic crimes faced by consumers, such as scams, how effectively financial companies can combat them and how secure customer data is.
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CCC Chief Executive Chris Stark told journalists the law could be in place before international climate talks in Chile at the end of the year since there was cross-party consensus in Britain on the need to act.
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On Monday, lawmakers who have tried to grab control of the process will attempt to agree on an alternative Brexit plan that could command majority cross-party support in parliament, something largely unheard-of in Britain's political system.
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At the other end of the European blue-chip index, GVC Holdings slumped over 11% as shares in British gambling companies were hit by calls from a cross-party coalition of lawmakers to tighten rules on online casinos.
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Stephen Kinnock, the Labour MP for Aberavon, previously indicated that he was willing to vote for a Conservative deal but said on Tuesday that the prime minister should table an alternative proposal that could win cross-party backing.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, called on Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday to set up a cross-party commission to "draw much of the poison" from the debate over Britain's decision to exit the European Union.
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"None of this guarantees Britain won't bumble out of the EU sans deal, especially given the frothing fury May's cross-party olive branch has caused among the hard right of her Tory party," said Spreadex Analyst Connor Campbell.
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The debate in Congress is the first major political test of President Mauricio Macri's ability to garner cross-party support for his economic reform package, the success of which hinges on ending the festering 14-year debt battle.
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Trump's previous Fed nominees have been supported by at least a handful of Democrats, but it's highly unlikely that any will cross party lines to vote for Moore, a sharp break from the president's previous, more conventional choices.
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Bill NelsonClarence (Bill) William NelsonAl Franken says he 'absolutely' regrets resigning Democrats target Florida Hispanics in 2020 Poll: Six Democrats lead Trump in Florida match-ups MORE (Fla.) — has vowed to cross party lines and vote for him.
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"Right up until yesterday it could be argued that the UK had run out of time to forge that consensus.... There are cross-party talks to try to find that, and that may take some time," he added.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK On Friday the 15th of January, the Home Affairs Committee, a cross-party group of MPs, announced that it will hold an inquiry into how sex work is treated in legislation.
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Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat leader, who will be attending the cross-party talks, has said that Corbyn should drop the idea of trying to become a temporary caretaker prime minister if parliament forced Johnson's government to collapse.
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The BBC says Grayling, a member of the cross-party anti-EU campaign Vote Leave, will argue the terms of Britain's revised membership will not reduce the extent to which the EU "governs" the lives of British people.
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"I think, the government thinks, we absolutely must leave the European Union ... that means we need to get a deal over the line," May said in a new video, explaining why she was now pursuing cross-party talks.
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Kevin Hollinrake, chair of the cross-party parliamentary group for fair business banking, said his group had been offered a seat on the new complaints service's steering committee, but he planned to reject this unless his concerns were addressed.
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A cross-party report by parliament's Communities and Local Government Committee said more than half of all new homes were built by the eight largest firms, meaning the country is overly reliant on a small number of commercial providers.
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Some MPs hoping to block no-deal are discussing the formation of a cross-party "government of national unity" to replace Mr Johnson's, with the express purpose of asking for another Brexit extension to allow time for an election.
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Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen cautiously backed Tusk but expressed doubt whether May's attempt for a cross-party compromise on Brexit, something EU officials have said May should have pursued three years ago, was to be taken seriously.
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Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has consequently accused the prime minister of "running down the clock" until the late March deadline, with what he termed her "pretense" of continuing to work on cross-party initiatives to break the deadlock.
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Still for some, Tuesday's vote and May's pledge to seek cross-party support for another draft agreement fueled optimism that Britain will avoid a painful exit at the end of March, potentially reinvigorating the UK market's appeal for investors.
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BREXIT ROLLER COASTER Sterling rose further as traders welcomed news that Britain's May would begin cross-party talks with the opposition Labour party as a signal that Britain will end up with a "softer" exit from the European Union.
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"Despite the switch to a cross-party approach, the risk of an election remains high because the path towards a successful 'meaningful vote' is treacherous, due to the deep divisions within both parties," Andrew Goodwin at Oxford Economics said.
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May's Conservatives need the support of the Protestant DUP's 10 lawmakers to have a majority in parliament, and some have called for the government to take a cross-party approach to Brexit given May's weakened position following the election.
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The upper parliamentary chamber backed a cross-party amendment to a trade bill, calling for the government to take all steps to enable the United Kingdom to participate in a new EU customs union after it leaves the bloc.
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The law, which drew cross-party support, removes words including as "husband", "wife", "mother" and "father" from the Marriage Act and replaces them with the gender-neutral "spouse", "parent who gave birth" and "parent who did not give birth".
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He also said he intends to scrap negotiations with opposition party leaders in favour of talks with cross-party caucuses — such as law-and-order hardliners, farmers and evangelicals, also referred to as the "bullets, beef and Bible" bloc.
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We need: Above all, members of the House and Senate who served in the military should form a bipartisan, bicameral congressional caucus devoted to forging principled cross-party compromise and consensus to solve the nation's growing roster of challenges.
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Led by lawmaker Hilary Benn, a cross-party group have put forward a proposal which would take control of the parliamentary agenda on March 20 with the aim of forcing a discussion of Brexit options at a later date.
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Still, Mr. Rajoy has won significant cross-party backing for his strategy in Catalonia, said Luis Garicano, a leading member of the center-right Ciudadanos party that has been a staunch ally of Mr. Rajoy in opposing Catalan secessionism.
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was thwarted by a cross-party group of politicians who voted to postpone the "meaningful vote" on his new divorce deal and force him to ask Brussels for an extension to the current Oct.
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May's fragile government in Parliament, trying to build a cross-party alliance of lawmakers to amend Brexit legislation to ward off any prospect of a "cliff edge" or "no deal Brexit," where Britain crashes out without a trade agreement.
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In Britain, Parliament has rejected May's divorce deal three times and failed to back an alternative, risking a chaotic no-deal Brexit as soon as April 20193, although May on Tuesday announced cross-party talks to break the impasse.
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One senior Lib Dem source told BI that the party would be prepared to stand aside in seats which TIG MPs would have a better chance of winning, claiming "there are conversations to be had" about cross-party cooperation.
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The Scottish Court of Session has accepted a petition from the cross-party group of seven MPs, excluding British Prime Minister Theresa May's ruling Conservatives, to determine whether Brexit can be stopped if Britain, acting alone, decides to reverse the process.
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Zavala, 50, said she quit the PAN because the party base had been subordinated to the interests of its leadership, which has forged a cross-party alliance for the election with the center-left opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
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May's cross-party effort by no means lifts the fog of uncertainty over the pound but offers a glimmer of hope to investors who are worried Britain might crash out of the EU without a withdrawal deal on April. 12.
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While May's demand for a Brexit extension from EU officials or seeking cross-party talks with the opposition may not yield a solution, analysts said her comments indicated a softening approach compared to her strong comments on lawmakers last month.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) will not take part in a cross-party commission to draft a new constitution without the main opposition CHP, which pulled out late on Tuesday, its representative on the panel said on Wednesday.
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"If they manage to achieve cross-party support for a deal, likely a 'softer Brexit' sort of a deal – this could potentially be very good news for UK assets," said Russel Silberston, Co-Head of Multi Asset at Investec Asset Management.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, called on Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday to set up a cross-party commission to "draw much of the poison" from the debate over Britain's decision to exit the European Union.
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Nikki da Costa of the Cicero Group consultancy, previously Mrs May's director of legislative affairs, says controlling Parliament is now all but impossible thanks to a cocktail of "no party discipline, extensive cross-party collaboration and the unpredictability of the Speaker".
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Earlier this month a cross-party group of MPs wrote to TfL urging it to strip the company of its license to operate in the UK capital, arguing the company has not shown itself to be a "fit and proper operator".
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British Prime Minister Theresa May said late on Tuesday that she intended to seek a further delay to Brexit, after announcing that she would start talks with Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to get cross-party support for an exit deal.
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In Britain a cross-party amendment to the government's finance bill designed to reduce the chances of crashing out of the EU without a deal passed by 303 to 296 votes, the first defeat on a budget measure since 1978.
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ON OCTOBER 25th the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Bipartisan Health Care Stabilisation Act, the cross-party effort by two senators, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Patty Murray of Washington, to shore up troubled health-insurance markets.
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The cross-party Treasury Select Committee had given the Financial Conduct Authority a deadline of Friday to either publish the report, which details RBS's much-criticised treatment of small business customers, or provide a copy to the committee of politicians.
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A cross-party committee led by an ally of Mr Temer is considering measures to limit the use of plea bargaining, for example by setting a minimum jail sentence for people who admit guilt in exchange for testimony against others.
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The government is unable to track progress in its fight against slavery as it does not know how much money it is spending, and lacks the data or strategies to understand the crime, said the cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
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The track record of left-winger Pedro Sanchez, ousted as Socialist leader in October and re-elected to the post on Sunday, points to less cooperation with the government on major cross-party issues including labour reform and budget spending.
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The Times British Prime Minister Theresa May halted the cross-party approach to Brexit last night as she told her cabinet that she would focus on securing changes from Brussels designed to win over rebel Conservatives and the DUP. bit.
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"If they manage to achieve cross-party support for a deal, likely a 'softer Brexit' sort of a deal this could potentially be very good news for UK assets," said Russel Silberston, Co-Head of Multi Asset at Investec Asset Management.
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"Brexit talks will of course dominate the market mood and this morning, amid talk of a cross-party plot to ensure the UK negotiates for a 'softer' Brexit, there's an excuse for some short-covering," said Societe Generale analyst Kit Juckes.
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She explains that 70 percent of the population, and 61 percent of Roman Catholics, now support abortion on request, and that there is broad cross-party support for decriminalizing abortion up to 24 weeks from MPs of all political parties.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday stepped up calls for Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to agree a cross-party deal to leave the European Union, following poor results for both parties in local elections on Thursday.
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A recent Pew poll found that just 17 percentage points separate liberal Democrats from conservative Republicans in their support for expanding nuclear power — views that are even closer than those for wind power, often cited for its cross-party appeal.
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Ensuring that our defense agencies will have access to a community of entrepreneurs and innovators into the future, and that the Defense Industrial Base will be able to continue to keep our economy strong are issues that cross party lines.
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MADRID (Reuters) - A cross-party group of British lawmakers recommended on Tuesday that brands and retailers in the fashion industry should pay a penny per garment to fund better clothing waste collection following an eight-month inquiry into the sector.
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A cross-party group of 75 MPs and peers, led by SNP MP Joanna Cherry, brought the case in Scotland, while Gina Miller was supported by John Major, the former Conservative prime minister, and Labour's shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British government plans to transfer shale oil and gas exploration planning decisions from local authorities to the national level will be a backward step and harm local democracy, a cross-party committee of UK lawmakers warned on Thursday.
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"It is better to have robust carbon pricing across Europe rather than paddling in our own canoe," Paul Hallas, Regulation and Strategy Director, Centrica, told members of Britain's cross-party Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee earlier this week.
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Di Maio says that if the center-right bloc is unable to form a government and 5-Star is the largest party, President Sergio Mattarella must give him a mandate to try to win cross-party support for his program.
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LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - Britain should force large companies and assets owners such as pension funds to report their exposure to climate risks by 2022 at the latest, a cross-party group of lawmakers said in a report published on Monday.
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Decent public transport takes long-term cross-party will; consensus politics require multiparty systems free of interference from large-scale corporate interest; effective labor relations are only possible if trade unions remain strong and are integrated into the decision-making process.
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British lawmakers are currently embroiled in a historic battle over the prospect of a no-deal Brexit, with a cross-party coalition seeking legislation to block Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking Britain out without a new withdrawal agreement on October 23.
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And whatever overtures she makes to Labour, analysts said, she will struggle to guarantee that her successor as prime minister or a future Parliament will not rip up any compromise deal — a major sticking point in the cross-party talks. Mrs.
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" • "And whatever overtures she makes to Labour, analysts said, she will struggle to guarantee that her successor as prime minister or a future Parliament will not rip up any compromise deal — a major sticking point in the cross-party talks.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator said he hoped cross-party crisis talks in London would yield a positive outcome to allow his team to move swiftly in agreeing more ambitions terms on a future British-EU relationship.
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The reason why is very simple: There remains little political incentive for cross-party cooperation, as Lee Drutman explained for Vox: In short, if Joe Biden assumes office in 2021, what incentive will congressional Republicans have to work with him?
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The difficulties of organizing cross-party votes in Britain were laid bare when several relatively pro-European Conservatives resigned from Open Britain, a pro-European group, after it encouraged supporters to try to unseat pro-Brexit lawmakers, mainly from their party.
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Trump Acquitted of Two Impeachment Charges in Near Party-Line Vote As Republicans rallied behind President Trump, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, the party's 2012 presidential nominee, joined Democrats in voting to convict, the only senator to cross party lines.
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When it comes to social care, the tricky subject that sunk Mrs May, this year's Conservative manifesto has no long-term plan other than to "urgently seek a cross-party consensus in order to bring forward the necessary proposal and legislation".
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Trump has governed with essentially zero effort at outreach — no token Democrat in his Cabinet, no reassuring words to those alarmed by his victory, and no effort to prioritize the elements of his agenda that have some cross-party appeal.
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"Once the preparation is done and the event has been delivered ... there is a key period to keep on the pressure," he told a British cross-party group of politicians that studies the links between sporting events, modern slavery and human rights.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal has been dealt with another blow after a House of Commons cross-party business committee report said it could not find even one company that thought the prime minister's deal was better than the status quo.
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"The expectation that May is now set to seek cross-party backing for a new deal is also reassuring for investors, since this suggests an effort will be made to find a compromise with broader appeal," Rabobank strategists said in a note.
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As sterling rose to multi-week highs with lingering hopes of progress in cross-party Brexit talks and ahead of Bank of England interest rate meeting on Thursday, exporter companies bore the brunt as much of their revenue is earned in dollars.
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And the bitter dispute among the three leading Democratic candidates here echoes the national argument: Should the party lean into the progressive movement or entice disaffected Republicans and independent voters to cross party lines by recruiting centrist candidates they'd feel comfortable supporting?
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The heir-apparent to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Rousseff was re-elected by a narrow margin in 2014, but soon a recession and a cross-party corruption scandal put an end to any political goodwill she might have earned.
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Tonight's debate, while substantive in parts, did little to provide comfort to an independent voter looking for a president who is willing to cross party lines to get things done or pursue commonsense reforms across a broad range of domestic policy areas.
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Details: On Wednesday, it edged up just 0.2% during North American trading hours after Parliament approved a cross-party bill to block a no-deal Brexit by a single vote, an outcome many feared could lead to mass instability in Britain and Europe.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's failed coup has opened a "new door of compromise" in politics, the leader of the main secularist opposition told a huge cross-party rally on Sunday, saying politics must now be kept out of the mosques, courthouses and barracks.
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Vulnerable women, mainly from eastern Europe, are being trafficked into England and Wales and forced to have sex with clients in rental homes and hotels, according to an inquiry into so-called pop-up brothels by a cross-party group of politicians.
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Rajoy has offered to sit down with rivals in the coming months to reach a cross-party agreement on education, but on Wednesday he cautioned them not to put an economic recovery at risk by overturning reforms such as a labor market overhaul.
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The cross-party commission has the same investigative powers as the magistrature and the opening of its work comes at a delicate moment for the banking sector, with the mandate of Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco up for renewal in November.
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But the decision on April 6th by Emmanuel Macron, the economy minister, to launch a new cross-party political movement in an effort to get France moving has created an unusual buzz—and prompted much speculation about the minister's own political ambitions.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Miklos Heisler was 17 when the Arrow Cross Party took power in Hungary in the final years of World War Two and began a short reign of terror in which thousands of Jews, previously spared from deportation, were killed in Budapest.
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While amendments are not legally binding - although they exert political pressure on May to change course - a cross-party group of lawmakers hopes to use one to change the rules of parliament to wrest control of the Brexit process from the government.
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EU leaders are not going to give way on the backstop, but there is the potential for movement around the next stage of the process, the future trade deal, which May could use to win cross-party support in the House of Commons.
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Indeed, the era Johnston and Brock remember so fondly was one where it was a lot easier to raise money for your campaign, leaving more time for the type of cross-party socializing they feel Congress requires to function at its best.
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The poll put Meade two points behind a third possible contender, Ricardo Anaya, head of the PAN, assuming the latter runs in a cross-party alliance with the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), as the two parties have proposed.
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It came after Johnson was begrudgingly forced to request an extension to the current October 31 Brexit deadline on Saturday after a cross-party group of lawmakers passed an amendment forcing a delay to a "meaningful" vote on his newly-negotiated divorce deal.
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British Labour Party Member of Parliament Joan Ryan and Conservative Party Member of Parliament Tom Tugendhat have been among those calling for the group's full proscription, including during a parliamentary debate on the issue earlier this year that received cross-party support.
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This is not unlike the story that former Pennsylvania Congressman Jason Altmire tells of how party operatives and primary voters penalize rather than reward members of Congress who cross party lines, even those representing — like Van Drew and Altmire — very purple districts.
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"As one of the world's largest emitters ... his approach to reducing emissions could determine whether we, in the UK and people round the world, experience or avoid the worst impacts of climate change," the letter from the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee said.
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We were not able to agree this as part of our cross-party talks – so it is right that parliament should have the opportunity to resolve this during the passage of the Bill and decide between the government's proposal and a compromise option.
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He vowed to pursue traditional Democratic policy aims, in areas such as education and health care, but also pledged to cross party lines in Washington and partner with Senator Richard C. Shelby, the long-tenured Alabama Republican, to defend the state's interests.
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LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union hopes cross-party talks in London will yield a majority in the House of Commons for the stalled Brexit deal and is willing to grant more time to achieve that, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said.
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In a series of votes on Wednesday evening, a cross-party group of lawmakers approved legislation that would force May to seek a delay to Brexit in order to prevent the risk of leaving without a deal, the biggest downside risk for the pound.
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Smith believes the combination of emboldened party leaders, a more partisan political environment fanned by outside influences on lawmakers and the growing homogeneity of political parties that has seen cross-party coalitions disappear have added up to a moment of fevered confrontation on Capitol Hill.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday she hopes cross-party crisis talks in London to try to break the domestic deadlock over Britain's exit from the European Union can produce a common position by the time EU leaders meet next week.
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Pablo Casado, a PP official, reels off a list of measures on the government's agenda, including laws to boost competitiveness and to make all levels of the state more efficient, as well as seeking cross-party pacts on education and the financing of regional governments.
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Has the onslaught of messages of hate and division during this campaign damaged us so much as a nation that we can't cross party lines to offer healing thoughts and sympathy for a 68-year-old individual who simply pushed herself momentarily beyond her limit?
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The heir to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Rousseff was re-elected by a narrow margin in 2014, but a recession and a cross-party corruption scandal put an end to any political goodwill she might have earned, eventually leading to her ouster.
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However, a cross-party group of lawmakers, who support a "soft Brexit", whereby Britain stays in or remains close to the EU single market, have demanded a greater say for parliament in negotiations and say they might try to pass amendments that guarantee this.
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The resignations at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) are the result of cross-party talks to address grievances voiced at weekly protests that began in April in which at least four people were killed, raising concerns of a return to election-related violence.
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AMENDMENT A - REVOKE ARTICLE 50 This amendment has been proposed by a lawmaker from the Scottish National Party, Angus MacNeil, and wants the government to revoke the Article 50 two-year negotiating period and stay in the EU. It has some cross-party support.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May had to rule out the possibility of a no-deal Brexit before holding cross-party talks on how to take Britain out of the European Union.
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However, the cross-party group, led by Conservative MP Alberto Costa, will ask Barnier in a meeting in Brussels to safeguard the rights of EU nationals in the UK, and British citizens living on the continent, even in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
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With fewer than 10 legislative days left until Thanksgiving, Dearborn, who now serves as executive director for the cross-party Pass USMCA Coalition, said that with impeachment proceedings likely to impact the schedule, the House was running out of time to pass the bipartisan legislation.
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Briefly, the Scottish case was brought by a cross party group of 20183 members of Parliament and a QC on 30th July because of their concern that Parliament might be prorogued to avoid further debate in the lead up to exit day on 31st October.
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He said the delay, which comes after political battles over the formation of the interim government, meant that temporary President Jocelerme Privert would not hand over to an elected successor by May 14, as agreed in a cross-party deal to overcome the crisis.
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Days later, the First Step Act, which implements evidence-based reform to reduce prisoner recidivism rates, passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support — a cross-party victory made possible by Kushner, who extended a willing hand to the other side that readily received it.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs cut its estimate of the likelihood Britain leaves the European Union without a deal on Friday after Prime Minister Theresa May embarked on further cross-party talks to break a deadlock over how, when, and even whether Brexit would happen.
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And though it seems likely that a cross-party parliamentary majority exists for a soft Brexit, one that seeks to avoid economic damage by keeping Britain inside the customs union and close to the single market, she has made no effort to explore that outcome.
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U.K. lawmakers return from summer recess on Tuesday afternoon, with a cross-party group of lawmakers expected to apply for an emergency debate and seize control of the agenda of the House of Commons, in a first effort to stop a no-deal Brexit.
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Britain's influential cross-party Treasury Committee of lawmakers in June 2018 wrote to Dobbs asking when the review would be complete, and Dobbs said at that time it would slip into the second half of 2019, confirming a Reuters story from May that year.
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Britain has simply become much more fiercely divided ideologically, with the cross-party consensus of pro-European neo-liberalism in tatters, along with the now derided "third way" of Mr. Blair, the last Labour leader to win an election, let alone three in a row.
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But at least since the early 1980s, the overriding trend line in both congressional chambers has been increasing ideological cohesion within the parties and widening ideological distance between them, a dynamic that has produced more party-line voting and less cross-party deal-making.
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Briefly, the Scottish case was brought by a cross party group of 75 members of Parliament and a QC on 30th July because of their concern that Parliament might be prorogued to avoid further debate in the lead up to exit day on 20183st October.
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While the issue is one of the few to enjoy broad cross-party support on Capitol Hill and in the White House, just how to spare Americans from unexpected bills became bogged down amid a lobbying and advertising blitz by the health care industry.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A ban on the use of social media for campaign purposes ahead of local elections in Chile in October has been criticized as overly restrictive and prompted a cross-party group of lawmakers to present a motion on Wednesday to have it overturned.
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A cross-party rebel alliance managed to force through a law aimed at stopping Britain leaving the EU without an agreement by requiring Johnson to ask for a three-month extension if he has not been able to strike a deal by Oct. 19.
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A cross-party rebel alliance managed to force through a law aimed at stopping Britain leaving the EU without an agreement by requiring Johnson to ask for a three-month extension if he has not been able to strike a deal by Oct. 19.
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Briefly, the Scottish case was brought by a cross party group of 75 members of Parliament and a QC on 30th July because of their concern that Parliament might be prorogued to avoid further debate in the lead up to exit day on 231st October.
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However, lawmakers on Wednesday defeated a cross-party attempt led by the main Labour opposition to try to block a no-deal exit by seizing control of the parliamentary agenda from the government, prompting sterling to fall to a day's low against the dollar.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party, held cross-party talks with four lawmakers who support a close economic relationship with the European Union and they pledged to work together to break the Brexit impasse, a Labour spokesman said on Tuesday.
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The Joint Committee, a group of 14 cross-party politicians from the House of Commons and House of Lords, is generally in favour of the powers the Bill would solidify, although it raised serious issues with the feasibility and scope of some aspects of the proposed legislation.
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This is the France that feels at ease with Mr Macron, a zealous pro-European who wants to reinforce ties with Germany, keep France part of the global trading system, support the transatlantic alliance and build cross-party support between left and right to "unblock" the economy.
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Many Irish people are familiar with and envious of the UK's NHS and in 2017 a cross-party committee of MPs voted unanimously in favour of Sláintecare ("Sláinte" means "health" in Irish), a detailed plan to introduce free and improved care at all levels of treatment.
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These issues might seem to have nothing in common, but they share key elements: organized advocates who care more about them than about partisan politics, longstanding frameworks where cross-party conversations and organizing can take place, and key supporters in influential factions in one or both parties.
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The heir-apparent to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Rousseff was re-elected by a narrow margin in 2014, but a recession and a cross-party corruption scandal put an end to any political goodwill she might have earned, eventually leading to her ouster.
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The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking, a cross-party group of UK lawmakers who back the idea of a tribunal, said the Financial Services Tribunal is supported by senior lawyers and many banks, despite Walker dismissing the tribunal as simply being popular with politicians.
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Something very strange happened in Congress this week: Five House Democrats helped Republicans block a resolution ending US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen from coming up for a vote this year — and the reasoning behind their decision to cross party lines makes no sense.
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Justin Welby, spiritual head of the Anglican communion of millions of Christians globally, has called for a cross-party commission on Brexit, warning that since Prime Minister Theresa May lost her parliamentary majority there was a temptation for every disagreement to become a vote of confidence.
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A few months after the supposed incident in Dortmund, a broad cross-party coalition in the Bundestag passed a law designed to make the topsy-turvy world of Twitter and Facebook look a little more like the staid pages of Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine.
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"Its blinkered determination to agree the Hinkley deal ... means that for years to come energy consumers will face costs running to many times the original estimate," said Meg Hiller, chair of the cross-party Public Accounts Committee, which published a report on the Hinkley deal on Wednesday.
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" Levine said voters are increasingly unwilling to cross party lines, "and this pattern has only accelerated in this era of negative partisanship in which, if nothing else, many people are voting against the opposing party rather than voting than voting in favor of their own party.
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And while Morgia's father might be pushing him to create options a Republican dog owner could enjoy (like "Nancy Poo-losi") or ones that could cross party lines (like "Vladimir Poo-tin"), Morgia thinks the product he's now selling has found unique success by leaning on Trump.
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George Deukmejian, a two-term California governor who was admired by Republicans and Democrats alike for his willingness to cross party boundaries, and who quietly shepherded the state through a period of rapid growth and sustained prosperity, died on Tuesday at his home in Long Beach, Calif.
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While the matter is one of the few to enjoy broad cross-party support on Capitol Hill and in the White House, just how to spare Americans from unexpected bills became bogged down last year amid a lobbying and advertising blitz by the health care industry.
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If Congress comes together this fall across party lines to recognize the true value of raising savings as they discuss tax reform, we have it in our power to turn a potential retirement "crisis" into an engine for growth, hope and perhaps even cross-party trust.
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Operating out of offices strewn with take-away food boxes and filled with young people with laptops, he hopes to draw voters from both left and right with a cross-party pitch for a pro-European, innovation-friendly form of "progressive" politics, to take on conservative populist nationalism.
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A former Socialist economy minister, he is a zealous pro-European who wants to reinforce ties with Germany, to keep France part of the global trading system, to build cross-party support between left and right in order to "unblock" the French economy, and to support the transatlantic alliance.
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He could get some cross-party support, but it is unclear how much political capital he will want to invest in the bill when he is also trying to push through other important measures, said Juan Cruz Díaz, a director at the Cefeidas Group, a political risk analysis firm.
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Paul O'Connor, head of the UK-based multi-asset team at Janus Henderson, warns that if a cross-party Brexit deal is agreed, a change of prime minister would likely follow and a new eurosceptic Conservative leader might trigger more confusion and limit the upside for UK assets.
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Lahren, who holds extreme views on other issues — like transgender rights, gun regulations, and sanctuary cities — shows that in this time of intense political polarization, it is possible to cross party lines and see abortion for what it is; a personal, medical decision between a woman and her doctor.
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AMENDMENT I: FIND ANOTHER WAY - REJECTED 314 to 312 Led by lawmaker Hilary Benn, a cross-party group put forward a proposal which would have taken control of the parliamentary agenda on March 20 with the aim of forcing a discussion of Brexit options at a later date.
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The spiral of vitriol in American politics reached its limits this week as a horrific shooting brought members of Congress together across party lines — and the spirit of bipartisanship remained more than symbolic as a cross-party deal on new sanctions passed the Senate by an overwhelming margin.
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But Hayward and other legislators of all political stripes say a new election would prove highly unpredictable, because for the first time ever in British campaign history political parties might forge cross-party pacts over which constituencies they contest, so as to strengthen their respective positions on Brexit.
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"This clause was approved with a high level of cross-party support, guaranteeing that the Legislative Yuan will complete the high court's order and on May 24 same-sex couples can register without a hitch," the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights said on its Facebook page.
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Government officials on Monday said that Johnson would call for a snap general election on October 14 if a cross-party group of MPs (Members of Parliament), including some rebels from within Johnson's own ruling Conservative Party, succeed with a legislative bill to block a no-deal departure.
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Gary C. Jacobson, a University of California at San Diego political scientist who specializes in Congress, says the hardening alignment between presidential and Senate voting has made it vastly more difficult for senators to display the independence and receptivity to cross-party deal-making that once characterized the body.
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The ruling PML-N party is looking for cross-party support for the reforms, but Abbasi said radical changes would require an integrated approach, including building confidence among tax payers, reducing income taxes and making it less attractive to invest in a real estate sector that attracts black money.
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In recent months, Trump has suggested Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage would form an "unstoppable force" if they formed a cross-party alliance, claimed Corbyn would be "so bad" for Britain and indicated the NHS would, in fact, be "on the table" during prospective trade talks.
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As part of the cross-party discussions the government offered a compromise option of a temporary customs union on goods only, including a UK say in relevant EU trade policy and an ability to change the arrangement, so a future government could move it in its preferred direction.
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With the deadline to pull together a viable Brexit plan rapidly approaching, the government and opposition have failed to agree even to cross-party talks on finding a solution — with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn insisting May must rule out the prospect of a "no deal" Brexit before he'll talk.
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Varadkar enjoyed cross-party support throughout the talks in a bid to avoid the return of border checks between EU-member Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland, which many feel would threaten a 20-year-old peace deal that ended three decades of sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
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The Met Office predicts there is a risk that similarly intense heatwaves will occur every other year by the 2040s and the average number of heat-related deaths in Britain will more than triple to 7,000 a year by the 2050s, the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee said in a report.
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Last month, a report backed by 24.6 cross-party members of parliament said that, despite £1.7 billion ($2.42 billion) of taxpayers' money pumped into the construction of high-speed broadband, 5.7 million people across Britain cannot access 10 megabits per second internet speeds, a target required by the telecoms regulator Ofcom.
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That's why it's been especially exciting to bring techniques like deep canvassing -- a research-backed voter contact method focused on listening and drawing out the person you're talking to -- to key marginal seats where it will be critical to expand the electorate and even convince voters to cross party lines.
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Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (R-Maine) voted with Democrats but was the only GOP member to cross party lines.
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In a tweet, Barnier said he met on Wednesday with a cross-party delegation of Irish parliamentarians to discuss their concerns, of which one is that after Britain leaves the EU in 2019, the land border between Ireland and Northern Ireland will become the new border of the European Union.
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With the chamber divided 53 to 47, they need four Republicans to cross party lines if they want a shot at hearing from officials like John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump's former national security adviser, who are said to have pertinent information about the president's actions toward Ukraine but evaded House investigators.
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Diana Johnson, a Labour member of Parliament who has led the cross-party call for an inquiry, told the House of Commons on Tuesday that the blood contamination scandal was a gross injustice, calling it a "cover-up" on an "industrial scale" that extended to the highest levels of the government.
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An amendment proposed by a cross-party group of lawmakers, led by Oliver Letwin, a member of Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party, seeks to change the rules of parliament on March 27 in order to provide time for lawmakers to debate and vote on alternative ways forward on Brexit.
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Spreadex analyst Connor Campbell said investors were "nervously waiting for China to blast back following last week's aggressive trade war volley from the U.S." Sentiment was also weighed down by Brexit worries, amid a lack of clarity over where cross-party talks were headed and growing calls for Prime Minister Theresa May's departure.
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The details: Members of the U.K. Parliament defeated the government in a 329 to 302 vote on a cross-party Brexit amendment, giving MPs control Wednesday to vote on a series of alternative measures to May's withdrawal deal with the European Union, which she has failed to pass through the House of Commons.
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The cross-party group of MPs have used a motion, called SO24, that gives them time to debate a law that would force the prime minister to seek a Brexit delay if he fails to secure a deal with the European Union by October 31, when the UK is scheduled to leave.
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Read more: Brexit will be delayed until 2020 if MPs vote this week for law to prevent a no-deal exitA bill published on Monday evening by a cross-party group of rebel MPs outlined the details of their plan to prevent Johnson from forcing a no-deal Brexit on October 31.
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A cross-party coalition of Johnson's political opponents moved swiftly to take control of the parliamentary schedule and then passed legislation that seeks to prevent the prime minister from leading the U.K. out of the European Union without a negotiated exit agreement, and which will be signed into the statute books today.
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The political risks for Mr. Golden also underscore how difficult it has become for a lawmaker who is willing to cross party lines on some of the most fraught issues to survive and stake out a role for himself in Congress at a time when partisan loyalty is more expected than ever.
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The British government has insisted that cross-party talks to find a consensus on Theresa May's Brexit plans have been "constructive," despite the refusal of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to engage in discussions with the prime minister unless she categorically rules out the possibility of the U.K. leaving the European Union without a deal.
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Republican Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyYang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' Pence celebrates Trump's acquittal: 'It's over, America' MORE (Utah) was the lone senator to cross party lines, voting to convict Trump for abuse of power.
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Samuel Tombs, the chief U.K. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that his base case scenario remained that MPs would agree on a limited extension of around three months and then will force the prime minister to engage in cross-party talks, leading to an agreement for a Norway-style soft Brexit in the second quarter.
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And the convention speeches were full of cross-party appeals, as Senator Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, offered Republicans "a home" if they felt Mr. Trump did not represent "the party of Lincoln," and former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York urged independents to vote for "a sane, competent person" — Mrs. Clinton.
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Conway, a polling expert who looks around the corners of data to find pathways to victory, and Bannon, who understands the cross-party appeal of the Trump message better than anyone, combined to bring the president's message to bear and destroy the Democrats' so-called impenetrable "blue-wall," winning the White House in the process.
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A 2016 report by think-tank the Adam Smith Institute, backed by several cross-party MPs, said it would not only ensure the drug meets acceptable standards, but remove criminal gangs from the equation, raise up to £1 billion [$1.27 billion] a year for the Treasury, ease criminal justice costs, and protect public health.
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Backed by a crowdfunding appeal, the case has been put together by a cross-party group of Scottish politicians, along with the high-profile barrister Jolyon Maugham QC. The final ruling on whether Article 50 could be canceled without input from the EU's other 27 countries will be granted by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
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He said he was optimistic that a no-deal scenario could be avoided in the future, adding that although no one knew how well London would be prepared for a disorderly Brexit, the fact that cross-party discussions between Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour were being held for the first time was a positive sign.
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If a party radically shifts its policy positions, it can alienate its most ardent supporters, who won't be there the next time the party is blamed for something that goes wrong The story was different in 2003, when UCR and Peronist leaders shifted positions rapidly to address another economic crisis and formed some cross-party coalitions.
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The London studios (some owned by other groups including Warner Bros at Leavesden) have been home to many recent film successes, aided by an innate, non-unionised, English-speaking workforce and expertise favoured by international producers, as well as recent GBP depreciation and the UK's long-standing cross-party supported Film Tax Relief for film-producing companies.
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Scott RigellEdward (Scott) Scott RigellGOP rushes to embrace Trump GOP lawmaker appears in Gary Johnson ad Some in GOP say Trump has gone too far MORE (Va.) and Carlos Curbelo (Fla.), have said they'll refuse to support Trump if he wins the party's nomination — though none would say he'd cross party lines and vote for Clinton.
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Alistair Burt and Justine Greening, two of the 21 Tory MPs who had the party whip removed after rebelling on Brexit, ruled out supporting any temporary government led by an opposition MP.It follows Corbyn's cross-party call to back him in leading a "strictly time-limited" government that would extend Article 50 before calling a general election.
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The London studios (some owned by other groups including Warner Bros at Leavesden) have been home to many recent film successes, aided by an innate, non-unionised, English-speaking workforce and expertise, favoured by international producers, as well as recent GBP depreciation and the UK's long-standing cross-party supported Film Tax Relief for film-producing companies.
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"Bolsonaro will try to stitch up a majority on an ad hoc basis via cross-party interest groups (law and order, evangelical groups and farmers) rather than through a formal coalition of a dozen or so parties as in the past — That system became synonymous with corruption and pork barrel politics that he campaigned against," the EIU's Wood said.
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A funny thing happened in the United States Senate today, as a chorus of cross-party agreement broke out during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on revelations that Wells Fargo employees created hundreds of thousands of fraudulent bank accounts and credit cards in order to meet company targets for cross-selling new products to existing customers.
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Nevertheless, members of Johnson's party that joined last week's cross-party legislative effort to block a so-called "No Deal" were expelled from the Conservative parliamentary ranks, and since that watershed moment two senior members of Johnson's government — one of them his younger brother, Jo — have very publicly resigned their ministerial positions and stepped down as Conservative lawmakers.
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The group operates in memory of Ms. Cox, 41, a Labour Party lawmaker who was shot dead by a right-wing extremist in 2016, and who had been a prominent voice in Parliament on the issue, setting up a cross-party commission that aimed to start a national conversation and establish the scale and impact of loneliness in Britain.
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"The odds of agreement by the end-October deadline may still be below 50%, but the distribution of risks for sterling has improved over the last month due to changes in the UK position on a number of issues and cross-party efforts to prevent no-deal," Goldman Sachs said in a note received on Monday.
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Referring to parliament's rejection of a negotiated withdrawal treaty and raging cross-party debate about preventing a March 29 departure without a deal to cushion businesses and people, Barnier said the House of Commons faced a choice: "There are two possible ways to leave the EU," he told a gathering of business and labour leaders in Brussels.
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Referring to parliament's rejection of a negotiated withdrawal treaty and raging cross-party debate about preventing a March 29 departure without a deal to cushion businesses and people, Barnier said the House of Commons faced a choice: "There are two possible ways to leave the EU," he told a gathering of business and labour leaders in Brussels.
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The DUP's deputy leader, Nigel Dodds, said avoiding future customs checks between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland - which might be required under May's deal - was more important than leaving the EU. On Monday, lawmakers who have tried to grab control of the process will attempt to agree on an alternative Brexit plan that could command majority cross-party support in parliament.
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There is a growing cross-party consensus calling for a 'people's vote' where voters would be given three options on a ballot paper: to either accept the deal, accept no deal and exit on March 29 or remain in the EU. Yet, it is not clear if there is a majority in parliament to vote on a new mandate for a second referendum.
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But opponents to a no-deal Brexit in Parliament are numerous, Kirby continues, and even given the pressure of a smaller legislative window, lawmakers could choose to cross party lines to block an exit without a strategy: The suspension of Parliament is going to make no-deal legislation a lot harder to accomplish, especially since the body remains a fractious bunch.
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The expedition into what many liberals consider enemy territory picked up this week after Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont appeared at a town hall on the network, drawing the biggest television audience of any 2020 Democratic candidate so far — more than 2.5 million people — while pitching himself to Trump-leaning viewers who may be willing to cross party lines next year.
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In a recent paper, "Voter Decision-Making with Polarized Choices," Jon C. Rogowski, a political scientist at Harvard, found that the extremity of Trump's language and stances effectively helps insure continued support from Republican voters: When the candidates are relatively divergent, there is virtually no chance that partisans will cross party lines and vote for the candidate of the opposite party.
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The DUP's deputy leader, Nigel Dodds, said avoiding future customs checks between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland - which might be required under May's deal - was more important than leaving the EU. On Monday, lawmakers who have tried to grab control of the process will attempt to agree on an alternative Brexit plan that could command majority cross-party support in parliament.
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Trump's provocative comments about women and minorities -- including assertions that Mexican immigrants were "rapists," that he could grab women's genitals with impunity and that African Americans had never been worse off than they were last year -- along with his misrepresentation of facts and tendency to boast gave Democrats hope that significant numbers of Republicans, particularly women, would cross party lines and vote for Hillary Clinton.
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On Friday, opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn announced that cross-party talks "have gone as far as they can," saying the two sides could not reach agreement on how to leave the EU. While some lawmakers hoped that the talks would lead to a consensus and an end to the Brexit stalemate, some Tory backbenchers cheered the breakdown in talks, claiming they should have never happened in the first place.
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