They take legislation, they debate it, they work on it, they pass it, and it gets signed into law.
It is a wide-open world right now for Republicans as they debate amongst themselves what the party truly stands for.
Somehow, I don't think at, say, down at the Explorer's Club, they debate regularly about who's the better explorer: Vasco da Gama or Robert Peary?
They debate the choices in taxis and buses, in the subway, in cafes, over breakfast, lunch and dinner, over Twitter and on Facebook, changing their minds between meals.
The issues they debate hardly lack spiritual resonance (why did the Engineers make us, and who made them?), but they're debated so schematically, and punched up so opportunistically (Shaw is sterile, unable to create life herself) that the story seems to have been bolted together by engineering apprentices.
And so MSPs have decided that they will debate the legacy of Margaret Thatcher - but not tomorrow.
They could debate whether kittens are cute or not and that would become one of the stories repeated across the media.
All groups of the left have their own daily newspapers, where they endlessly debate topics like this, of deep interest to their activists and precious little to the average voter.
More, both the President and Congressional leaders would have to agree to and sign on to the same set of financial statements so they can debate policy with the same set of facts.
The novel experience of being able to debate at least some of the things they want to debate has been exhilarating for MPs, and rather disorientating for the party whips.
Republicans, meanwhile, characterized Shays, Meehan and the House Democrats as sore sports, saying they were trying to cut off debate because they did not have enough votes in the closely divided chamber.
Republicans, meanwhile, characterized Shays, Meehan and most of the House Democrats as sore sports, saying they were trying to cut off debate because they did not have enough votes in the closely divided chamber.
The Labour MP for York Central, Hugh Bayley, and the Conservative MP for York Outer, Julian Sturdy said they would press for a Parliamentary debate on how they claim the county "loses out" due to the national funding formula.
Congressional leaders said they expected a debate on Iraq policy to begin almost immediately.
But then after a week or two of this very heated debate they suddenly reached a compromise.
Supporters of the concept said they hoped the debate would continue and marked the beginning of a conversation to improve end-of-life care.
Students feel it really challenges them to think about the world around them, how they learn and debate different points of view.
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But Central American leaders, whose countries suffer some of the highest murder rates in the world, say they plan to debate the issue further.
But they ended the debate on Monday with questions still unanswered and many cardinals predicting a drawn-out election that will further expose the church's divisions.
They can also give persuasive force and focus to the arguments of jurors as they discuss and debate the issue of Simpson's guilt or innocence.
Ministers say they want a debate on what makes a violent crime because some of the offences currently classed as violent do not involve injuries.
President Bush has already asked that they keep the debate civil.
If the film lives up to these trailers, then zombie fans should find a lot to love, even as they no doubt debate the changes to the story.
But this work will be harder still if leading Democrats remain unwilling to lay their cards on the table and give the American people the debate they deserve.
While political analysts and international relations experts warn that the threat of Al-Qaeda is not gone, El-Erian and PIMCO seem to have decided what side of the debate they stand on.
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"They're locked in a debate right now where they've sort of lost sight of the goal, " says Kaufman, who sat in on a breakfast meeting Friday with Negroponte and Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel.
They will also debate how to combat stereotypes and negative images of Muslims and Muslim women in the media - especially after the 11 September attacks and the exposure of life for Afghan women under Taleban rule.
They say they have their own plan, but over the last 14 months of debate, they never seriously advanced it.
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And they understand that there's going to be this kind of debate, but they're going to be looking to see whether or not they are supported in the realm of mission given and resources provided.
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