And officials said the study had begun long before the latest debate on health reform.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

In the Senate, sixty votes are needed to prevent unlimited debate on a bill.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

And the Senate agreed Saturday to begin full debate on its own bill.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Also this week,the Senate began debate on President Obama's economic aid plan.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

He said he looked forward to a full debate on the issue.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Daniel Webster's speech was not the end of debate on the compromise.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Senate debate on the bill continued for more than a month.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The Senate was completing debate on the Treaty of Versailles.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

A debate on Kosovo is expected in September.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

They demanded a debate on the gold-silver issue.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

On the Security Council's regular program of work this month will be a debate on the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The president said there has been a lot of debate on health care reform, some of it highly emotional.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

In the final hours of debate on the Senate bill, Republicans asserted it would be ineffective and add sharply to the U.S.budget deficit.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"I think his motivation is first is to show that he's around." "That he is capable of making decisions or participating in debate on policy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

"During the debate on Iraq we always said it's keeping us from getting Afghanistan right,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

McKibben notes that the debate on climate change in the United States has been highly charged and focused not solely on science, but on ideology.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

After months of rigorous debate on health insurance reform, fought largely along political party lines, President Obama says a bipartisan solution is starting to take shape.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

With Republicans maintaining their wall of opposition, the Senate completed a series of final procedural votes, including one formally declaring debate on the legislation at an end.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24