"I won't spend my effort trying to pass partisan legislation unrelated to economic growth.
QUESTION FROM RAG: The filibuster prevents a simple majority from ramming through highly partisan legislation.
She will be back, and with her the Democrats have the 11 votes they need to block partisan legislation — and one insurance vote just to make sure.
"How can the polls be neck and neck," the playwright Arthur Miller lamented during the 2004 election, "when I don't know one Bush supporter?" Gerrymandering — the redrawing of political districts by partisan legislation from above — partly accounts for increasing polarization.
These minority-decided switches in power might not matter were it not for the partisan legislation that each successive minority British government since 1964 has felt itself mandated to whip through the lobbies.This mountain of minority-mandated legislation has grown remorselessly.
In the House of Representatives, for example, the Republican chief whip, Tom DeLay, has dubbed the Kosovo campaign "Clinton's war", as if it were a piece of partisan legislation rather than a NATO action.And inside the administration there are exceptions to the general picture.
