1.   But some senators said that a partisan split over witnesses was inevitable.

2.   But the brief numerical bipartisanship of the House vote only masked the enduring partisan split.

3.   House members are scheduled tomorrow to take up the airline security legislation, which has been delayed by a partisan split about whether security employees should become federal workers.

4.   Indeed, Alexander Hamilton foresaw the kind of partisan split engulfing the Congress today on impeachment.

5.   Republican committee member Lamar Smith, of Texas, conceded that there was a strong partisan split on the committee about what to release.

6.   So we avoided a partisan split on process.

7.   The report reopened partisan splits on a committee that spent much of Thursday morning approving bipartisan legislation by voice votes.

8.   The question of how serious the partisan split is is not settled.

9.   The tight partisan split in Congress could also raise the temperature in the studios.

10.   Part of his reason for making broad suggestions was to avoid presenting Democrats with demands that might cause a partisan split, Republican officials said.