If you compare the closing argument of majority counsel and the majority report filed by the committee and the trial brief filed by the House and the presentation of the managers last week, you will begin to understand what has happened here.

CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement

This weakens the argument that the majority of cancers grow within benign cysts, and that women found to have these cysts should have them removed.

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The argument goes that more majority voting is needed, because few decisions requiring unanimity will survive 27 potential vetoes.

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Unless we assume that entrepreneurs are crazy, the fact that the probability of windfall profits is vanishingly small for the vast majority of ventures only adds to this argument.

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The plans will be debated and voted on in Parliament, but ministers hope they will win the argument with a pro-nuclear majority in the Commons.

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Experts are saying that it looks like the majority of the court is willing to hear argument that says, I want to raise this as a civil rights claim at the trial level.

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But that is a poor and even frivolous argument for renouncing the views of a majority of British economists on the desirability of Britain joining the euro.

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He hopes that within a decade the Republicans can win the argument, the presidency and a controlling majority of both houses of Congress, whereupon the drowning can commence.

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Let's look now at how the majority counsel for the committee put it in his closing argument to the Judiciary Committee.

CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement

At the conclusion of the debate MPs rejected Labour's argument by 317 votes to 239, a government majority of 78.

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The argument that Obama's slender re-election majority is better than Bush's rests on demographics--on the observation that the Democrats do better among racial and ethnic minorities and unmarried women, population subgroups that are increasing as a share of the electorate.

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And a new national poll suggests why a majority of voters didn't seem to buy McCain's argument.

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Well, again, I'll let the majority counsel for the Judiciary Committee tell you in his own words during his closing argument.

CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement