"I do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do other than consistency and identifying issues that needed to have further development," said a self-identified "conservative Republican" who oversaw screeners in Cincinnati, among them the staffer who first flagged a Tea Party case.
From these fora, we are identifying issues that need more information.
Gibson's concerns are reflected in a series of passages, set in bold print in his report, identifying issues described as ones "the inquiry would have wished to investigate".
But many researchers say that because registry data tends to be collected more haphazardly, it is better at identifying issues for further study than guiding medical practice.
"It would allow us greater involvement … in identifying issues that could potentially be problematic and what could potentially preclude horses from competition.
Even though Mr. Geithner carefully avoided specific details, laying out mostly broad principles for overhauling the system, financial industry groups are identifying issues they plan to pursue and lining up well-connected lobbyists and publicists to help make their cases.
"I do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do, other than consistency and identifying issues that needed to have further development," Shafer said, according to the transcript released by Cummings.
Instead, Mr. Gore, who was 28 when first elected, went methodically about the task of identifying issues -- many slightly obscure but all deadly serious -- that he could make his own.
"I do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do, other than consistency and identifying issues that needed to have further development," the IRS employee is said to have replied.
But early on, Mr. de Blasio, a former strategist who cut his teeth on Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's political campaigns, also showed a shrewdness in identifying issues that would yield political benefits and sometimes connect with financial backers.
He responded by campaigning heavily in apartment complexes filled with adult nonvoters, identifying issues important to them and working to turn out the people he identified as political supporters.
