When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The Verizon-Google proposal offers suggestions for a debate that is not likely to end soon.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

But fast-growing demand and prices have made them part of the debate over health reform.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

The plunge renewed debate about the risks of electronic exchanges and high-speed computer trading systems.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

The researchers say the discovery could be important to a debate about Cesarean-section deliveries.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The health care debate also fueled the rise of the so-called Tea Party movement.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

He feared it would re-open the bitter, national debate about slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Experts debate the reason for these so-called jobless recoveries.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

They demanded a debate on the gold-silver issue.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

One young jurist, who gave only her first name Nadia - said she was glad she had attended Wednesday's debate.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

But Gorce believes the debate should far longer and more in-depth than what the government has in mind.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

What some call the V-word - Vietnam is increasingly heard in the growing debate over U.S.involvement in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"The high-pitched partisan debate over whether to invest in missile defense is no longer with us."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"We need to have a debate about how we feel about whole body imaging and the privacy trade-off, and it is a legitimate issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

The director of Afghanistan Rights Monitor,Ajmal Samadi, tells VOA that the debate half-a-world away is alienating the people of Afghanistan, causing them to question Washington's commitment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Conference organizers say at least six items have been proposed for emergency debate during the six-day meeting, including three concerning the plight of the people in Gaza.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

The debate itself was initially triggered by Srinagar's senior police superintendent, Afhad-ul-Mujtaba.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Seven-and-a-half million people watched the TV debate, which focused on Britain's economy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

What is clear, says Claire de Gallembert, an expert on Islam at the Paris-based National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is that the debate is alienating France's five-million-member Muslim community.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30