Mr. Anderson, a Heritage Foundation fellow, has also held briefings for members of Congress, their staff members and others to explain his arguments against same-sex marriage, and he and two co-authors released a book last year laying out their case in depth.
Downes has written a piece for Comment is Free explaining his argument in more detail.
Explaining his argument in favour of extending British air strikes into Syria, Mr Cameron told the Committee: "The threats to our interests and to our people are such that we cannot afford to stand aside and not to act".
"When he ran the first time, he had a terrifically uphill battle with people not knowing who he was," Mr. Schwarz, who praised the mayor's record, said in explaining his argument for limiting Mr. Bloomberg's spending.
Sherman, who told Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen in November that God did not want interest rates to rise in the winter, explained his argument in more worldly terms on Tuesday.
Even people who publicly reprimanded Mr. Neugebauer for his outburst felt compelled to explain his anti-abortion arguments against the health-care bill.
Romney's answer was an indication that he knows he cannot simply explain his way through this argument.
The lone opponent to speak in the chamber, Rubén Díaz Sr., a Democrat from the Bronx, invoked his own experiences as a minister to explain his vote, and rejected arguments from other senators that religion should not play a role in deciding who can legally marry in New York.
If the moment comes for France to throw in its lot with the war party, Mr Chirac will need a jolly good argument to explain his reversal to those who see him simply as the defender of the peace.As to American power, Mr Chirac has won glowing reviews as the man who is doing a fair job of taking the superpower down a peg or two.
As the years go by, Gould's line of argument, which served to explain his decision to abandon the concert stage, seems ever more misguided and dangerous.
