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.
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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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.
"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.
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.
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.
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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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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This points to a less obvious consequence of Mr Modi's triumph: a subtle shifting of the terms of India's political debate, in which an ugly extreme moves ominously close to the centre.
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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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As the book winds to a close, Johnson gets at his real passion: banishing stupidity from the political economy and increasing the level of rational debate.
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