The Senate earlier began the third straight day of heated debate over Owen's nomination.
The UK is currently involved in a heated debate over a bill to allow unmarried couples, both homosexual and heterosexual, to adopt.
These efforts have come more into the open, lately, in the heated debate over Spain's deficit plans, and the publication of the latest IMF Fiscal Monitor.
Madrid (CNN) -- The heated debate over potential Catalan independence from Spain took a new turn Wednesday when the Catalan regional parliament approved a declaration alluding to sovereign rights.
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And it follows a heated debate over whether commanders should be stripped of the authority to overturn military jury verdicts, such as one officer did in a recent sexual assault conviction.
American senators are caught up in a heated debate over a wide-ranging reform bill, a key part of which covers over-the-counter derivatives, especially CDSs, which many see as having exacerbated the crisis.
Congressional Republicans and Democrats are engaged in a heated debate over which Americans deserve not to have their taxes raised, with both claiming that some form of tax cut will stimulate the economy.
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The actor has been at the center of a heated debate over tax exiles as France's Socialist government proposes a hefty tax on the rich, but he has denied that he accepted the passport to escape the tax man.
This round-up of today's main media stories includes heated debate in Scotland over journalists' job cuts at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail.
The device makers' effort is running into a heated debate among physicians over whether drug therapies to prevent stroke have surpassed stents or carotid artery surgery as the best treatment for many patients with artery blockage in the neck.
There has been a heated debate at the camp over whether to accept Australia's offer to take some of its members.
Colombia's de-certification came in the wake of a heated debate within the administration over whether to penalize the world's largest supplier of cocaine.
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The figures are based on hospital and mortuary records and are seen as significant given the heated and highly politicised debate over the human cost of the war in Iraq, our correspondent says.
The search continues, and the debate often has been heated, especially over a potential link to vaccines, though that has been widely discredited.
President BUSH: Over the past few months, the debate over this bill has been heated and the questions raised can seem complex.
And there's a heated debate this year, according to international newspapers, over whether to honor Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.
Heated debate by committee members on Thursday showed the partisan divide over gun legislation, as well as the challenge supporters face in getting any substantive measures through Congress.
The debate over whether to hold the race had grown heated Friday.
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Many people have come forward with suggestions for new lyrics - including one offering from the Spartak Moscow coach - and over the last few months the anthem has become the subject of a heated national debate.
Meanwhile, as the debate over personal security for US Congressmen - who typically have little or none - heated up in Washington DC, the US Senate sergeant-at-arms told US television he opposed lawmakers arming themselves against potential threats.
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The country is divided over the best way to educate them, with bilingual programs gathering steam but also provoking a sometimes heated debate with those who favor an English-only approach.
Australia is in the throes of a heated political debate on a question as old as European settlement there: the competition between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians over access to land.
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