Just take a look at the past 45 years. The ones that get passed are bipartisan. If it advances the personal interests of politicians and their money contributors it gets passed. If it suppresses the freedom of the common man/proleteriat in hopes of shoring up their elitist positions, then it gets passed. Anything else is what gets headlines and bickering for years and years, turning into decades of inaction. Mind you, the 1994 AWB was NOT debated very long. Jon