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The two men have a unique opportunity to push a legislative agenda as presidential candidates. This is, after all, the first time two sitting U.S. senators have faced off against each other in a head-to-head contest for president. It would be very difficult for other members of Congress to oppose legislation backed by their party's standard-bearers.
There's precedent for McCain and Obama to work together. After all, they already have cooperated on legislation to create a database of federal spending information. Light had a couple of specific suggestions for new measures the candidates could promote that would presumably benefit either of them if elected: reducing the number of political appointees and streamlining the appointments process.
The question is, what other agenda items could the two candidates join forces to support?
Maybe we can help answer that right here on GovernmentExecutive.com. So let's open the issue for discussion. Use the comments section below to make specific suggestions about management reform legislation you think McCain and Obama should support. But before we begin, one note on ground rules: Let's try to keep this focused on the issues, not on the respective merits of the candidates.
