In Washington, the Senate was debating a financial-system bailout bill with several carrots designed to coax House Republicans into the fold and to attract more support from the public, after the lower chamber's version was shot down Monday.
Spain, France, Italy and Austria, which have presumed consent, all have high deceased-donor rates, of over 20 per 1m; that's why Britain, too, is debating such a system.
Tampa is debating a new light rail system, but construction could be years off.
As Derek Wood QC, the chair of the bar's working group on CPD, put it at the Clementi debate: "A system which allows too much discretion to practitioners to decide exactly what activity suits them and how much CPD they should undertake will lose the respect of the public and probably of the profession, too".
As Congress begins debating an overhaul of the immigration system, many in California sense that the country is just now beginning to go through the same evolution the state experienced over the last two decades.
Congress debated a cap-and-trade system in 2009, but then allowed it to die.
There have been many debates over energy development; and the inefficient system that has traditionally framed these debates -- a system where "us" versus "them" -- became a defining feature.
He seems aware that his book is as much about the modern mode of public debate -- a system of scoring points rather than resolving important issues -- as it is about the issues.
Our biggest challenge is communication – to get a responsible and sensible debate within a system where you get a small number of diehard activists who are dead against anything we do.
Revelations that President Jacques Chirac may have paid for nearly $300,000 worth of airplane tickets with his share of the secret funds has opened a national debate over a system that has been in place for more than 50 years but is increasingly being questioned as an unsavory relic of the past.
