Then there is the issue of extending the life of the nuclear power plants, which energy companies are lobbying hard to prolong.
Similarly, Councilman James F. Gennaro of Queens, said, "The issue of extending term limits has gone to the people twice through public referendum, and any revisiting of the issue should go back to the people".
The mass-selling Proto Thema said Sunday that the issue of extending Greece's fiscal and structural reform programme had added to the pressure because it had raised the question of how the extra time would inevitably be financed.
During the 1840s and '50s, however, the Democratic Party, as it officially named itself in 1844, suffered serious internal strains over the issue of extending slavery to the Western territories.
STEPHEN SERENE New York, Oct. 6, 2013 To the Editor: The issue of extending basic rights to other species is undeniably a matter of societal interest and a legal and moral imperative.
Also speaking on Today, Laura Sandys, a former Tory MP and chair of the pro-EU campaign group European Movement, argued that the outcome of the referendum would affect British citizens living in other EU member states more than anybody, but said she thought the issue of extending the right to vote to 16-year-olds was the most important issue.
Efforts over the next four weeks will most likely continue to focus on the issue of extending an Israeli freeze on settlement construction, rather than the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict like borders, the status of Jerusalem and the fate of the Palestinian refugees of 1948 and their descendants.
It was clear, following the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that it could not exist in America if it continued to practice racial discrimination, and yet the issue of extending priesthood to blacks was not resolved until 1978, when the Mormons' president, Spencer W. Kimball, expanded the eligibility rule to "all worthy males".
At that point, his bill will become the first bipartisan, bicameral congressional effort in over a decade to tackle the issue of extending health care to the country's growing legion of uninsured.Hillary Clinton's effort was the previous one: a disastrous attempt to promote a government-run health scheme at the start of her husband's first administration.
