Ninety percent of the United States Senate on a substantive issue, an important issue like this, is quite an accomplishment.
He was laying out his vision on a very substantive issue -- wonky issue, if you will -- deficits, debts, spending, entitlements, interest payments, Pentagon spending.
Yesterday you heard him talk about an entirely different substantive policy issue and high light it -- the wind energy tax credit that supports 75, 000 -- 37, 000 jobs and an industry that has 75, 000 jobs across the country, and that -- let me just restate that.
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With the exception of Mr Clarke, however, none has made any substantive compromise on the issue of Europe, which has brought the party to its knees.
Later Friday, Romney told reporters that the issue needs more substantive action than an executive order, which can be replaced by a subsequent president.
What we have seen since late last week, early this week, when the ticket for the other side was filled out, was this initial announcement that there was a desire for a substantive policy debate, and once that substantive policy debate focused on the critical issue of Medicare, there's been, obviously, a desire on the other side to change the subject.
The substantive part of that didn't work - an issue that I covered last year.
It may seem daunting to enter into the fray of a heated issue, to shape public opinion and to push our elected officials to substantive change, but we've done it before.
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