Just before the vote, she had declared: "This is a banner issue for the Congress of the United States". "The president is isolated in this.
Change afoot: Face recognition has become a banner issue for those concerned about irresponsible uses of AI, and it seems increasingly likely that some form of regulation will arrive.
"Hacienda Luisita was the banner issue of agrarian reform not being completed, so in that sense this is a big step forward," said Steven Rood, an expert on the Philippines at the Asia Foundation and a senior visiting professor at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.
But her political rise has its roots in her dogged pursuit of an amendment to the State Constitution prohibiting same-sex marriage — "her banner issue," said Scott Dibble, a Democratic state senator who is gay — and her mixing of politics with her evangelical faith.
Meanwhile his banner issue of national security has just been eclipsed by the economy.
By the late twenties, protecting U.S. markets was the banner issue for Republicans, led by Herbert Hoover whose 1928 presidential campaign capitalized on agricultural tariffs.
"Five or 10 years ago, a governor who wanted to be president would not have made the death penalty such a banner issue," she said.
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