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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.
These debates also deal with questions of morality, income equality and intergenerational equity. For example, Congress adding to the debt today may or may not enhance the quality of life for future generations, who may also have to bear additional interest and taxation burdens. [3] Political realities make major budgetary deals difficult to ...
The economics of healthcare continues to be central within conservative arguments, as many politicians bring in the idea of the free market into healthcare. For example, Conservative GOP columnist Bill Kristol advocated several free-market reforms instead of the Clinton plan during the 1993–1994 period. [161]
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.
In the 1980s, a new argument called a "kritik" was introduced to intercollegiate debate. [24] Kritiks are a unique type of argument that argue "that there is a harm created by the assumption created or used by the other side"—that is, there is some other issue that must be addressed before the topic can be debated.
A GOP candidate in a New Hampshire congressional race slammed her Democratic rival as an out-of-touch multimillionaire after her opponent claimed she only cares about the rich.. Republican Lily ...
Debate has ensued over the advisability of subjecting workers' retirement money to market risks. [121] A technical economic argument for privatization is that, without it, the payroll taxes that support Social Security constitute a tax wedge that reduces the supply of labor, like other tax financed government welfare programs.
Their argument is that medical abortions, or "chemical abortions," erode their population, leading to those adverse consequences for the size of their congressional delegations (Idaho has two ...