Overhauling the health care system is the president's top domestic priority, but the initial proposals to reach Congress last week received a rocky reception.

CNN: Obama toughens his talk on Iran

It will be Obama's second speech to the full legislature since he took office in January, and the setting and rarity of such an event highlighted the importance the president places on his top domestic priority: overhauling the nation's ailing health care system.

CNN: Dueling bus tours crisscross political landscape

In conversations, whether with government ministers, UN officials or tribal chiefs, we posed the question: Is domestic violence a priority?

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Will foreign plants, such as those located in the Southern U.S, be a priority when the Japanese domestic economy needs a sharp boost?

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Arabs and Muslims have become a foreign-policy issue, an argument on the domestic agenda, a law-enforcement priority, and a point of well-meaning concern.

NPR: Many Arab-Americans Still Perceived As A 'Problem'

In 1997-1998, Vietnam turned inward and gave priority to the mobilization of domestic capital to make up for the loss of East Asian trade and investment.

CNN: Vietnam and the Crisis

Our priority would be to ensure our domestic base remains strong.

WSJ: Maybank Spreads Its Arms Across Southeast Asia

"President Bush has, in effect, made the promotion of a Soviet commercial space launch capability a higher priority than the creation of a viable domestic capability, " said Frank J.

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Nottinghamshire's new deputy police and crime commissioner says her priority is to do more to support victims of domestic abuse.

BBC: Deputy PCC Chris Cutland: More help for victims of abuse

It is one of the most powerful instruments, perhaps the most powerful instrument, that China has at its disposal in the near term to both counter inflationary pressures, which is a very high priority for them, and also to shift to domestic, demand-led growth.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The most common is the amount of money we spend--indeed, the priority we make of it--as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product.

CNN: Thompson's November 13, 2007, speech to The Citadel

This was the product of a robust dialogue with the HIV community and other members of the public and identifies a small set of priority action steps for moving the Nation forward in responding to the domestic HIV epidemic.

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