Both candidates took the stage smiling and shook hands -- the only opportunity they are allowed to approach each other, according to the rules of the debate.
Myanmar has begun opening up to increased foreign investment and a new law passed late last year after months of debate has codified some of the rules for foreign capital.
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Gore had pushed Bush, in violation of the debate's rules barring the candidates from questioning each other, to declare if he would or would not support the bipartisan patients' bill of rights that now languishes in Congress -- the so-called Dingell-Norwood bill.
But some countries objected to this loosening of the rules, splitting the council so after four years of negotiations and three decades of debate, the proposal is dead.
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Referring to a House of Lords debate taking place on Wednesday over controversial rules which could open the NHS up to more competition, Mr Burnham said peers were being asked "to call a halt to David Cameron's mad dash to privatise the NHS".
The voting session had started with fellow Conservative Nirj Deva - who stood against Mr Schulz in the presidential election - claiming that the president had ignored the rules of procedure by offering a contribution to the previous day's debate on the EU summit.
Mr McArthur was leading a debate about the tightening of enforcement of cross-compliance rules for farmers, particularly in the Highlands and Islands.
Speakers today need to forget the rules they learned in public speaking classes of the last century, or in debate classes, and focus instead on having a conversation with their audiences.
In the debate over the controversial rules, Bloomberg administration officials acknowledged many underlying causes of weight gain.
But under Senate rules, a simple majority vote would have opened the measure to up to 30 hours of debate, which would have meant inspecting the details.
Behind the scenes, moderates were feverishly working to try to hammer out a compromise to avoid the "nuclear option, " which would end Democratic filibusters of Bush's nominees by changing Senate rules rather than mustering 60 votes to end debate.
As part of efforts to expedite the House vote, the Rules Committee crafted a narrow plan for floor debate that winnowed about 30 proposed amendments down to six, including three aimed at the controversial core of the bill: the big increase in spending without specific offsets, which must be decided in conference.
Even though the Democrats command a majority of 55 votes, Senate rules in this case require them to come up with 60 to end debate.
Ordinarily, debate and voting on an amendment might take two legislative days, but under the rules of the reconciliation bill the senators were to dispatch the amendments one after another, as in a hot-dog-eating contest, with a minute of debate for each side.
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