11.   But more often, people did not seem to view the oil price as a partisan issue.

12.   But some pundits believe it is no longer a partisan issue.

13.   But taxes are not necessarily a partisan issue here.

14.   But this is not a partisan issue.

15.   But you all recognize that this is not a partisan issue, that it is a moral obligation for our country.

16.   Clinton said that he agreed that the bill should not be a partisan issue.

17.   He said gun control was not a partisan issue.

18.   If Bush drifts into these sharply partisan issues, we will wind up marching in place the next four years.

19.   In Missouri, Democratic and Republican party officials saw the term-limits debate evolving as a fundamentally partisan issue.

20.   In Washington, Collins plays an unobtrusive but meticulous role, speaking on select topics but rarely joining the boisterous debates on partisan issues.