But Daschle warned that the package should not be a vehicle for partisan bickering.
Political tension and partisan bickering were off-the-charts then (Nixon, Vietnam, OPEC), just as now.
But many independents are turned off by the partisan bickering they are seeing in Washington.
Something like the Bowles-Simpson compromise that nearly made it until hyper-partisan bickering sent it down.
We can't let partisan bickering stop us from doing the work we were sent here to do.
Over time, though, it was commonly used to bypass partisan bickering and advance other parts of a president's agenda.
Those talks fell apart in December amid strong partisan bickering on Capitol Hill.
Bill Clinton embodies, for many swing voters, the kind of partisan bickering that they are now eager to leave behind.
He does not want public faith in census statistics to be undermined by partisan bickering over the methods that produced them.
On Tuesday, Starbucks Corporation CEO Howard Schultz called on business leaders to stop funding political campaigns until Congress stops the partisan bickering.
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Economic growth, not partisan bickering, was what brought Great Britain and the world to an unparalleled era of affluence for workers and investors both.
But I hope congressional leaders in both parties can step away from the partisan bickering and join this effort to serve the national interest.
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Promising to end "finger pointin' and partisan bickering" the way Bush believes he has in Texas, the candidate weaved his message of unity throughout.
Of those surveyed, more thought a female president than a male president would be likely to put families ahead of politics and end partisan bickering.
He argues that partisan bickering has for too long handicapped Hungarian politics and that the last vestiges of communist influence need to be rooted out.
It is important to recognize that partisan bickering and political jockeying shape responses to humanitarian crises just as in trade policy, arms control, and immigration politics.
There is no evidence of this yet, but Messrs Hubbard, Lindsey, Bernanke and Feldstein, because of their Republican connections, could all become lightning rods for partisan bickering if they enter broader policy debates.
The administration's reluctance to clearly label that attack terrorism and comments blaming events initially on a response to an anti-Islamic film ignited partisan bickering and an election-year showdown with Republicans over his administration's handling of the matter.
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They include college Republicans and Democrats, and if they reflect opinion polls, they also include the growing segment of young people registered as independents, people who say that partisan bickering is one of the things they don't like about the political parties.
Yet, time and again, we've let partisan and petty bickering stand in the way of progress.
"We need to stop the partisan point scoring and the petty bickering that serves the needs of politicians but not the needs of the American people, " he said in September in Pueblo, Colorado.
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