The tax extenders bill is struggling and the Senate voted 56-40 Thursday night to close debate on the bill.
Unanimous Republican opposition so far means Senate Democrats need all 60 votes in their caucus to close debate on the sweeping health care bill.
President Ricardo Lagos hopes that the talks will allow Chile to close its debate about the dictatorship.
The signatories said that the attempt to change the law was to effectively close down the recently-opened Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast - the first private clinic to offer legal abortions in Northern Ireland - and was also an attempt to close down debate on abortion.
The signatories said that the attempt to change the law was to effectively close down the recently opened Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast - the first private clinic to offer legal abortions in Northern Ireland - and was also an attempt to close down debate on abortion.
"This wasn't like the Brixton or Toxteth riots, " said one minister close to the debate.
As one person close to the debate said to me this past week, the NCGA and RFA have their heads in the sand on this issue.
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At the close of the debate Monday evening, McCain asked Iowans to keep him in mind, even though he has ignored the state's early role in the presidential nominating season.
There were regular debates before EU summits, there was an annual fisheries debate, a Welsh debate, held close to St David's Day a Scottish debate, a debate on the work of the Public Accounts Committee, an annual fisheries debate, and so on.
The business committee decided that the UUP motion would take precedence and that David Trimble would open and close a four hour debate.
The assumptions underpinning the debate deserve close and sceptical examination.
If renewable power continues its current trajectory, that growth can be expected to continue, which might explain why utilities are paying particularly close attention to the debate on Scottish independence.
We have largely shied away from banks stocks because of the headline driven nature of their moves, but we finally see a compelling area for a trade at a time when the regulation debate seems close to a conclusion.
As a close observer of the debate over defense spending now consuming this Committee, its House counterpart and countless other organizations and forums in Washington and elsewhere, I have the unsettling sensation that I am witnessing a binge by people determined to count the proverbial chickens before they are hatched.
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Al Sharpton, both of whom have been regulars throughout the debate and in close contact with Martin's family.
Having said this, were not sure our opinion even matters, because we suspect the chances of anything of substance resulting from this, the next budget debate is pretty close to zero.
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"The money dried up -- and it dried up right after the Cleveland debate, and we never could get it back, " a source close to Walker said of the August 6 debate.
As the debate draws to a close, speaker Nancy Pelosi praised Democrats for maneuvering through the complications.
Heads of government are not close enough to most issues to debate them properly, so they often rubber-stamp agreements reached by officials.
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It took until the first debate for Romney to close this gap.
At the close of these two days of debate, representatives from the IGC Member States adopted recommendations concerning the direction the Programme will take for the next two years.
Mr Garnier, who on Monday led a parliamentary debate about plans to close the units, said he welcomed the review but said ECMO and heart surgery were inextricably linked.
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The key question is whether Mr Cheney's remarks are a sign that the administration is close to resolving its own internal debate over precisely when and how to confront Saddam Hussein, and whether that will involve a full-scale military assault.
Proposing the motion, the UUP's Robin Swann said it was a disgrace that members had to debate this motion, so close had the salmon come to extinction.
Gerald Steinberg, a strategic analyst at Bar-Ilan University, says there is debate in Israel about exactly how close Iran is to achieving nuclear capability.
There was JewishDoc1000, the private-practice cardiologist who hated cruise-ship travel, and LawMan2346, an attorney who was very close to his family and a former national debate champion.
It is remarkable that so close to the ratification of the Constitution, a debate existed already about the intent of the Founders, with each side claiming Constitutional legitimacy.
Schools nationwide are lengthening school hours, piling homework on burdened kids and cramming technology into classrooms with the goal of improving test scores as politicians intensify the debate with educators demanding measures be taken to close the knowledge gap between the United States, Asia and Europe.
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The Welsh government said she was trying to encourage a debate and there were no specific proposals on how close takeaways should be allowed to school gates.
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