The latest proposal from the New York Democrat is much simpler and looks a lot like the health care system Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing for California.
In such a system, a Republican and a Democrat might face off in the general election, or two Republicans or two Democrats.
In an influential strategy memo he wrote in 1994, Kristol warned of an undertow toward a national health care system and told Republican lawmakers to resist the tide.
Reform that brings accountability to our immigration system cannot pass without Republican votes.
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"The Republican insurance-based model institutes a system of government insurance guarantees to provide certainty to investors, " Cantor said.
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The other alternative, which is often the one that is presented by our Republican colleagues, is to essentially voucherize the system.
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As Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, he had just spent several sleepless and chaotic weeks immersed in the complexities of the crisis, and had been working closely with his Republican predecessor at Treasury to save the financial system.
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The 1876 contest was between two respected men, Samuel Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York, who had broken up the Tammany Hall corruption system, and Rutherford Hayes, the Republican governor of Ohio.
What this measure really does is provide an alternative to the plan proposed by Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican, that would have replaced the current Medicare system into one where the government funded private insurers.
"The hearings that we had will forever be a part of the record, as far as any discussion of our system in the future, " the Tennessee Republican said.
Newt Gingrich, one of the leading US Republican presidential candidates, has said Virginia's electoral system is flawed, after failing to qualify for the primary ballot in his home state.
And a growing number seem to be suspicious of any federal involvement at all in infrastructure investments, despite the fact that it was a Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, who created the interstate highway system in the 1950s with large dollops of federal cash.
In the 1998 primary for the governor's race, Dan Lungren, the Republican, easily won his party's nomination under the new system.
"Having to defend the free-market capitalist system is a very good place to be in a Republican primary, " said Kevin Madden, a Romney adviser and former spokesman.
With the near collapse of the financial system in 2008, the Bush administration, with the Republican party in control of both houses of Congress, took aggressive, unprecedented action.
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They're designed to counter Republican denunciations that the legislation is a government takeover of the health care system that will drain the federal treasury.
Marco Rubio, a tea party-backed conservative considered a rising star in the Republican party, said the goal was to create a "modern immigration system" that treated everyone fairly -- both the undocumented and those waiting to come to America legally.
He has appointed a bipartisan commission to investigate the military health-care system, to be headed by Bob Dole, a former Republican presidential nominee and veteran of the second world war, and Donna Shalala, who was health secretary under Bill Clinton.
It is a sad indictment of Republican short-sightedness that all discussion of creating the flatter, simpler tax system that the party is supposed to favour has given way to squabbling over a grab-bag of politically-appealing goodies.
Capuano supports "patients' rights" health care legislation and a single-payer system, although he concedes the latter is a tough sell in a Republican-led Congress.
Jeffrey Bell, a Republican consultant who works with Hispanic groups, says the momentum behind reforming the immigration system will make a bill "unstoppable" if the Senate and House pass bills and then confer to meld the two.
But instead of saving money by shifting costs to seniors, like the congressional Republican plan proposes, our approach would lower the cost of health care throughout the entire system.
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Almost every Republican opposes such an option, claiming it would destroy the current private-insurance-based system.
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It is sad that Republican politicians, who a year ago were lambasting the distorting complexities of America's tax system, are now embracing an agreement that worsens the mess.
The scholars will "help us look at some of the questions that have arisen, in regard to soft money, with regard to independent expenditures, with regard to whether or not this is a matter of changing the system, or it's simply a matter of enforcement, " the Tennessee Republican said.
If you believe our educational system should be held accountable for the progress of our children - then you are a Republican!
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Republican-controlled legislatures had been reluctant to touch public pensions in general and the public safety pension system in particular, knowing that its beneficiaries leaned on strong public support.
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While railing against an expanding federal government harming small business in one breath, does it make sense for some Republican presidential candidates, for example, to call for requiring all employers to use an electronic verification system (E-Verify) every time someone in the country is hired?
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Republican lawmakers said Friday they agreed with the enhancements, but said the administration was wrong to freeze the system in 2009.
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For decades, policy wonks on the Republican fringes had talked about turning Social Security, the government safety-net program for retirees, into a system of private investment accounts.
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