"It would set up a precedent that Democrats could use again and again to force a change in the agenda," Nickels pointed out.
However, a recent, burgeoning literature has cast doubt on the over-time comparability of such roll-call based measures due to changes in the congressional agenda.
We recently demonstrated that long-term engagement with people with rheumatic conditions in international outcome research led to significant changes in the research agenda in the field of rheumatology.
While changes in the policy agenda, particularly in response to the first Francis inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire hospital trust [ 4] and the Darzi review in 2008 [ 42], had seen quality and safety move up the political agenda, the oversight of patient safety was often compromised by the unintended consequences of relying solely on risk based governance approaches.
Although the economic feasibility evaluation is not a part of this study, because of constant changes in the carbon tax agenda, high volatility on energy markets, and varying abilities to fund renewable projects, we can outline a possible life cycle of such geothermal reservoir for engineering and energy production purposes.
"In the corridors of Washington, Berlin and elsewhere, there is genuine dismay about the lack of attention to climate change in the G20 agenda," he says.
Over the last few years there has been a massive change in the equality agenda, which has more noticeably impacted on young people.
So far the Australian presidency has resisted pressure from the US and Europe to include climate change in the G20 agenda on the grounds that it doesn't fit the economic focus of the summit – although it has been part of the discussions on energy and infrastructure.
The question is how the traditional stronghold of biomedical science, i.e. the hospital structures, will respond to this uprising and change in the political agenda.
Task force members report that throughout the day on which the matter was scheduled to come to a vote, Levant announced several changes in the order of the agenda, ostensibly to accommodate other groups.
