A good example of this party cooperation is Texas Republican Representative Angie Chen Button’s $1 billion bill for childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Representative Button used ideas from interest groups that wanted free _____________________for working parents. She met with lobbyists who held different views. But because they wanted the same outcome, they worked together. Button’s willingness to adopt different views of those interest groups shows compromise. Because of that, the law was ____________________.

access to childcare services; successfully passed