In addition to the increases in financing, the measure includes a number of contentious policy pronouncements.
During his tenure, Geithner has continually won over Obama in contentious policy debates.
One of the most contentious policy questions is how long the government should continue to pay unemployment benefits.
Mr. Gandhi is using his enormous popularity to broaden the party's political base, steering clear of more contentious policy making.
Efforts to add contentious policy provisions to the spending measures are also expected to set off partisan disputes.
The relationship between Roberts and Hamilton was well known, and it added a personal element to a contentious policy debate.
He was very good and wasn't going to be drawn on contentious policy, because of the coalition and collective responsibility.
Beto O'Rourke, who often hedges when asked about contentious policy issues, has endorsed the federal legalization of marijuana unequivocally.
By throwing his weight behind the tuition proposals, Mr. Cuomo is thrusting himself into one of Albany's longest-running and most contentious policy disputes.
Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, who has previously supported drug decriminalisation, is understood to be relaxed about his party committing itself to such a contentious policy proposal.
But the budget and his economic proposals are such an indelible part of his identity that discussion of the contentious policy plans and their implications will be unavoidable.
