Just because there's a bipartisan consensus on an idea, such as tax cuts, doesn't mean it makes sense.

"We now have the opportunity to build a bipartisan consensus to fight and win the war," he wrote.

It was the sound of an emerging bipartisan consensus for health care reform.

Government Senate leaders said after the meeting that there was an emerging bipartisan consensus.

One result, they say, could be a bipartisan consensus behind foreign assistance for the first time since the cold war.

For almost 40 years, America has maintained a bipartisan consensus on foreign policy.

We've met almost every single week and built a bipartisan consensus that is helping America win this war.

I always thought we'd have a bipartisan consensus to do what had to be done.

A20 There was little bipartisan consensus at a hearing on perjury.

But it has taken that long for the debate on the issue to mature and a bipartisan consensus to form.