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Congressional Debate (also known as Student Congress, Legislative Debate) is a competitive interscholastic high school debate event in the United States. [1] The National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA), National Catholic Forensic League (NCFL) and many state associations and national invitational tournaments offer Congressional Debate as an event.
The Speech or Debate Clause is a clause in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 6, Clause 1).The clause states that "The Senators and Representatives" of Congress "shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and in going to and from the same; and for any Speech or ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — After weeks of anticipation, Congressman Scott Perry (R) and challenger Janelle Stelson (D) just faced off in their first-ever face-to-face debate in the race to become ...
U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875, containing the Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, Congressional Globe, and Congressional Record, hosted by the Library of Congress Congressional Record for the 43rd-114th Congresses: Parsed Speeches and Phrase Counts (plain text speeches from Daily and Bound Editions, 43rd to 111th and ...
For such a contentious race, the debate between Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Scott Perry and his Democratic opponent, Janelle Stelson, contained a lot of common ground.
Here's what the candidates consented to in their only scheduled debate for Sept. 27 in Green Bay. Kristin Lyerly, Tony Wied finalize format for their 8th Congressional District debate Skip to main ...
In Lincoln-Douglas debate and Policy debate, The Tournament of Champions has seven preliminary rounds and clears to double-octafinals. [5] All entries who won at least 5 prelim rounds have the opportunity to advance into the outrounds. Congressional Debate and Speech, employs the National Circuits standard way of advancing. Competitors are ...
Competitive debate expanded to the secondary school level in 1920 with the founding of the National Speech and Debate Association, which grew to over 300,000 members by 1969. Technological advances such as the accessibility of personal computers in the 1990s and 2000s has led to debate cases becoming more complex and to evidence being more ...