The Treasury Department statement says that the U.S. will support any candidate with broad support.
Obama, with his base solidly on his side, is making policy with broad support among independents.
It passed with broad support in the legislature, but some lawmakers who opposed it vowed at Saturday's rally that they would keep fighting.
Still, the bill flew through the legislature with broad support.
For Manu Bhaskaran, a director at SG Securities Asia in Singapore, the election results are fairly encouraging, with Indonesians voting for moderation and an alliance with broad support likely to arise.
Many have left the country, their hopes shattered after being raised by the drama of a year in which a movement with broad support across the many religious groups had united behind calls for peaceful change, and ended years of domination by neighbouring Syria.
So far, the move to legalise drugs has been a pretty high-brow movement, with little broad support.
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Hard to believe it now, but big programs like Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s, or tax and Social Security reform in the 1980s, passed with broad bipartisan support.
With broad bipartisan support, the Senate also voted 69-30 for a nonbinding amendment offered by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, that called for better enforcement of existing gun laws and underscored the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns.
The strategy that he has been pursuing, with broad international support, has resulted in the most onerous sanctions ever placed on Iran that have had clear effect on the Iranian economy and on the Iranian regime, that have isolated Iran more than it has ever been.
Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal reported a change in the politics surrounding this issue. (See "Tax Break Nears End for Online Shoppers, " July 16.) Hungry for a share of the lost dollars, some governors have dropped opposition to a federal law allowing collections, and now bills with broad bipartisan support are pending in both houses of Congress.
Fortunately, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed an important bill with broad bi-partisan support intended to shape the environment for innovation and growth.
Winning support from panels of experts in competition with hundreds of projects decade after decade, DARE illustrates the commitment of the National Endowment for the Humanities to support projects with broad and lasting significance throughout America.
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The plebiscite legislation, by Alaska Rep. Don Young, has broad bipartisan support, with backing from President Bill Clinton, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt.
As the post makes clear, though, one can still be a "liberal or a progressive with a broad sense of the common good" if you support a guy who blows up little children with cluster bombs, as Barack Obama has in Yemen.
In approaching this research project we developed our own methodology which we believed was sound and for which we found broad support in our discussions with consultants and managers.
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KABUL Afghan opposition leaders urged Washington not to overreact to President Hamid Karzai's allegations of American collusion with the Taliban, saying there is broad support for a continued U.S. role in Afghanistan.
"I feel like he's come up with something that might actually attract broad enough support that it could be acted on and acted on quickly, because it is narrower, it's focused, and it's right now, " Lott, R-Mississippi, said of Roth's plan.
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Implementing the disengagement by agreement with the PA would ensure a smooth transfer of responsibility for the vacated territory, make it easier to prevent attacks during the complex evacuation and provide an opening for continuing diplomatic negotiations aimed at an agreement that would enjoy broad international support in accordance with the roadmap.
"The AL13SE Series provides enterprise customers with capacities up to 900GB that support a broad range of enterprise applications, " said Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing at Toshiba's Storage Products Business Unit.
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Thomas Rosch, who in November had offered up a new, alternate theory on how the agency could proceed with a broad case against Google that found no support among the other four commissioners, in a dissent expressed worry that the FTC had set a bad precedent for future negotiations with other companies.
We still firmly believe that it is time to move forward with these agreements and with TAA and get it done now, because these agreements have broad bipartisan support and there is broad recognition that they will support -- either create or support up to 70, 000 American jobs.
Mr. Netanyahu knows that if he encourages Israel's friends in Congress to support such programs, he will create much good will with the broad-based forces in the United States, led by the top Republicans in Congress, that deem missile defense the gravest U.S. military deficiency.
Though Sunnis appear to be uniting against the insurgency, that has not "translated into broad Sunni Arab support for the Iraqi government or widespread willingness to work with the Shia, " according to the NIE findings.
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We believe that the test vote in the Senate last night, the procedural vote, demonstrates the broad bipartisan support that the agreement enjoys not just in the Senate but with the American people and that we believe that what the Senate will pass, we hope today, will be the framework for what is taken up and agreed quickly by the House of Representatives.
And I was encouraged by those discussions, and I believe there is enough broad consensus that we can come up with a package that can be approved with bipartisan support.
However, it would appear that there is extremely broad-based and enthusiastic support from across the Georgian political spectrum for integration with Western institutions, which is something that people like Mandel ought to cheer.
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The Assembly where support the measure is broad passed a medical marijuana bill in 2007 and 2008, both times with wide margins of support.
Many of these fifteen individuals have enjoyed broad bipartisan support, but have found their confirmation votes delayed for reasons that have nothing to do with their qualifications.
"We reaffirmed our support for the establishment of a broad-based, representative and multi-ethnic government in accordance with the wishes of the Afghan people, " French news agency AFP quoted him as saying.
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