"Our priorities going forward are to look after the interests of existing members," Mr. Headdon said.
It will be risky for Democrats to devote precious legislative time to the issue while other key priorities go unaddressed.
It is, instead, where national priorities go to die (although the House has a hand in this, too).
Extending expiring unemployment insurance, not included in the budget agreement, is one of the White House's top priorities going forward.
As far as priorities go, assistance to the refugees ranks low on the government's list of priorities when Italians are absorbed in their own economic struggles.
"This is a significant step toward cleaner air and energy efficiency and an important example of how our economic and environmental priorities go hand in hand," she said.
The order of his daily priorities went: first work, then family and last, his much-loved home in the undulating green of Crediton, Devon.
"I think our priorities going into the game are transition and penetration, and from a defensive standpoint, he controls both of them," Bucks Coach George Karl said of Kidd.
But it has to be practised within an overarching moral framework that determines ultimate priorities going beyond private advantage and organisational supremacy.
Finally, it's worth thinking about what I'd call the strategic implications of Obama's first term — where it has left Democrats and their ability to protect and enact their priorities going forward.
