The bill, however, was immediately shot down by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans.

He himself won the post three years ago by assembling a coalition of Democrats and dissident Republicans.

The Union party was a coalition of both Republicans and Democrats.

The budget deal was brought down by an unusual coalition of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats.

A coalition of moderate and conservative Republicans came out in support of the proposal.

He formed a coalition of Democrats and Republicans, with both white and black supporters.

I crossed party lines in 1994 and built a coalition of Republicans that passed the crime bill.

The measure was defeated when a coalition of conservative Democrats and Republicans voted against it.

First, it was written by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats.

During the 1880s, a coalition of black Republicans and white Populists held power for several years in the state legislature.