The investigation, trial and conviction of Mr. Siegelman, a veteran politician, has become a flash point for broader Democratic contentions that politics has influenced decisions by the Justice Department under President Bush, including the firings of several United States attorneys, and other federal prosecutions besides Mr. Siegelman's.
The broader issues in contention would be deferred until Congress takes up the next farm bill, most likely in 2012.
They characterized the attacks by the Obama campaign as nitpicking over "verb tenses," saying the examination distracted from the broader issue — their contention that Mr. Obama was willfully ignoring evidence of progress in Iraq.
The broad lines of contention had already been drawn in June during one of Belgium's most polarised general elections in years.
Immunity has emerged as the single biggest point of contention in the broader debate over changes in the security agency's eavesdropping powers.
The conflicting calculations and contentions reflect a broader political battle between the administration and its critics, including many Democrats, over whether Mr. Bush's tax cut was affordable and why Congress may feel a pinch when a 2002 budget is forged this fall.
The amendment, offered by Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J ., would have eliminated a bR-N.J .nge of people from contention.
But the formal point in contention is something much broader: limiting the concept of religious ministry to those institutions whose aim is to propagate the faith, by mainly employees of the same faith, to clients mainly of the same faith.
"English cricket is in such a good place at the moment that it wouldn't worry me if we went into the next Test with any of the three in contention coming in for Broad," said the former Sussex captain.
The second explanation is that innovations in public health practice are likely necessary to enhance adaptive capacity, but a broad literature base that supports this contention is not yet available.
