There is still time for the conference committee to step back and agree to the Senate's bipartisan approach.
The challenge today is to sort through them and come up with a bipartisan approach.
But others are less hopeful that a bipartisan approach to family policy is workable.
The president has frequently committed himself to a bipartisan approach in government, and now is the time to honor that pledge.
It is important to the nation's future that we take a bipartisan and balanced approach to energy policy.
What we would like to see is a coordinated, bipartisan approach.
We need to put in place processes that encourage bipartisan approaches to common problems.
But a few weeks before an election is probably not the best time for a bipartisan approach.
Without a real bipartisan approach, no progress on the foreign affairs budget will be possible.
But if he and the Republican leadership agree to a sensible, bipartisan approach, there will be one big winner - the public.