And that was the debate we had and that's the debate we're continuing to have.
Tuesday's debate could be a dress rehearsal for the coming debate over embryonic stem cell research.
We can take idiosyncratic positions in this debate because it is inherently an idiosyncratic debate.
Did he learn something from the health care debate that he plans to use in this debate?
The debate over software patents does not unite Silicon Valley the way the debate over SOPA does.
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In some ways, indeed, the constitutional debate has become a way of avoiding a debate over enlargement.
It is a debate that is not unusual as cities across America debate new urban planning models.
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At the end of a debate, people retire to their respective corners and prepare for the next debate.
Unlike the first Presidential Debate, the Vice Presidential debate had two active, engaged opponents who actually showed up.
There is no debate about how horrible these problems are, but there is much debate about their causes.
But the debate over the extent of voter fraud is just as controversial as a voter ID debate.
Look at the debate in Germany, look at the debate in Italy, look at the debate in France.
Then peers turn to their annual International Women's Day debate, followed by a debate on developments in the Commonwealth.
The debate followed a previous debate on the same issue in 2002, which led to similar proposals being shelved.
But what was clearly missing from this debate was a contribution by any figure able to ignite the debate.
Since we are in the middle of debate season, you might be interested in his observations on a Reagan-Mondale debate.
You keep saying that you expect to begin a debate, and you say you expect a formal debate to begin.
That was the theme of first post-debate debate and affected the second meeting, when Mr Gore, overcompensating, pulled his punches.
Unfortunately for him, he was facing the Obama of the second debate, not the fumbling one in the first debate.
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Just one note, it takes 60 votes to end debate, but only 51 votes to pass after debate is over.
"We have been involved in the fox hunting debate and I think angling is part of the same debate, " he said.
If a public debate about the morality of suicide were to develop out of the euthanasia debate, how might it proceed?
The Thatcher debate has been swapped with a government debate on public sector procurement which will now take place on Wednesday afternoon.
He also confirmed Backbench Business Committee debate on metal theft on 7 February, as well as an opposition debate on bankers' pay.
The healthcare debate gave Republicans a chance to capture the narrative, spin the entire debate into one about fiscal ruin and deficits.
Live blogging the First Presidential Debate was so much fun that I'm signing on to live blog the Vice Presidential Debate, too.
We might debate which goals to set, or how to set them, but who would debate whether to set goals at all?
The best known television debate was the Kennedy Nixon debate of 1960.
Her place was taken in the debate by Finnish Green Satu Hassi, who opened the debate by raising concerns about a potential loophole.
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