How to Use bipartisan in a Sentence

bipartisan

adjective
  • The bill has bipartisan support.
  • Ohio senators are leading a bipartisan bid to respond to last month’s train derailment in their state, proposing legislation that would subject railroads to new safety rules.
    WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • By the fall of that year, the bipartisan group met regularly, according to a copy of Tester’s office schedule posted to his Senate website.
    Brian Slodysko, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The White House’s best chance to do that would likely come from a bill introduced by a bipartisan group of senators last week that has strong White House support.
    Kevin Collier, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The proposals emerged from the bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
  • And that’s why he’s been working so hard, in a bipartisan way, to -- to make that happen.
    ABC News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Paisley performed the song live for the first time at the bipartisan gathering for 500 kids.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The bill passed in the Assembly with bipartisan support June 1 and moved on to the state Senate before it was put on hold.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • And that is not just for Republicans, but in a bipartisan way, get things done for the country.
    CBS News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • But that didn’t stop a bipartisan grilling at a Senate hearing in June.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The hearing comes as part of a bipartisan effort to clamp down on child safety rules across the internet.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Ten House members ranked among the 100 most bipartisan.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
  • The House has formed a bipartisan study committee to research the issue.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 26 June 2023
  • The bills are backed by powerful business groups, but most of them have seen some bipartisan pushback.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The bipartisan vote came despite objections from dozens of members of the public.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Despite bipartisan support, the bill’s chances may come down to money.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Even with bipartisan backing, the future of the gun shop measure is uncertain.
    John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • This is a bipartisan issue that Congress can and should move quickly to address.
    Brian Hurley and Paul N. Samuels, STAT, 13 May 2024
  • Allred touts being named by the Common Ground Committee as one of the most bipartisan members of Congress.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • But Congress is moving ahead with a potential ban on TikTok, with a bipartisan bill expected to make its way to the House for a vote very soon.
    Matt Novak / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But a Schumer spokesperson said there would be no such meeting with Democrats and that any discussions with the Israeli leader should be bipartisan.
    Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Plus, she’s consistently ranked one of the most bipartisan members of the Senate.
    Laura McGann, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • This bill is one of 13 that were bundled in a bipartisan package to address property crimes.
    Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
  • In part because this was a tax credit and not a government program, there was hope that the credit would be a bipartisan thing going forward.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The bipartisan bill cruised through both the Senate and House with little opposition.
    Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2024
  • The House bill is likely to face obstacles in the Senate, where a bipartisan effort last year to restrict TikTok petered out.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The bipartisan immigration bill in the Senate, while not perfect, could have helped.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
  • In early June, Biden finally spoke in prime time, from behind the Resolute Desk, about the bipartisan debt ceiling deal.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
  • Those drugs are not widely covered by either program, but there’s some bipartisan support in Congress to change that.
    Aleccia Washington, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2024
  • There is broad, bipartisan support among voters for mail-in and early voting, along with other protections such as voter list maintenance and audits, Olson said.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024

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