What the voters want is an effort to reach bipartisan agreement on basic issues.

President Clinton urged members of the conference committee to reach a bipartisan agreement.

They said they would continue to press for a bipartisan agreement.

And there has been bipartisan agreement that the role of the government needs to be scaled back.

In the last Congress, she said, there was "broad bipartisan agreement" on such proposals.

There are many issues for which broad bipartisan agreement exists.

The new Congress must identify issues on which bipartisan agreement is possible.

"But considering where we have been in the past, I think we've got a better than even chance at bipartisan agreement here."

Senators at the news conference said that they hoped to reach bipartisan agreement in committee.

We can send the bipartisan agreement to the president today, and he will sign it.