IT'S ALMOST AS IF...:

In the last few weeks, several small steps have been taken in Congress to further bipartisanship and promote collaboration: 

- A sizable number of House members actively sought a solution by presenting a bipartisan-supported letter to Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to fix the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate. This measure was debated and passed by Congress where, in the past, it had been "resolved" only by temporary, stop-gap measures.    

- The Iran agreement, another bipartisan effort on behalf of Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and co-sponsor Ben Cardin (D-Md.), also made strides in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hopefully moving both chambers closer to a "teamwork" approach than we haven't seen in years.  

- On Thursday, President Obama signed into law a bipartisan energy-efficiency bill sponsored by Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), as well as No Labels Problem Solver Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.). There also has been bipartisan movement on a revision of the No Child Left Behind law led by Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). 

After years of partisan politics at the expense of real progress for the American people, Congress is beginning to take steps -- together -- toward real change. 

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