Sentences with phrase «debate on banking reform»

held a debate on banking reform, at very short notice, on a cold and wet February night.

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Former Gov. George Pataki, who's banking on opposition to the new health care reform law as his ticket into the 2012 presidential election, today issued a debate challenge to former Sen. Tom Daschle, who was just tapped along with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's wife, Victoria, to head up the Obama administration's defense of the measure.

We can quibble over policy and strategic details: the way in which the debate on immigration is following the welfare debate is becoming divorced from fact; the persistent failure of banking «reform» to get to the fundamental issues; and the possibility that the government's dearth of competence may be a weaker spot than their closeness to fat cat Britain.

With these sobering facts on the table, banking reform is a hotly debated issue in the upcoming presidential election.