Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people.
The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.
Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.
I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
