Word: hot-button
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...collection of partisan idealists in Congress: 16 soft-left Democrats, 21 hard-right Republicans. Each one is driven not by his or her constituents -- they're all in extremely safe seats -- but by their own political conscience. And boy, what consciences! This is a committee that routinely handles such hot-button issues as late-term abortions, gun control, school prayer, same-sex marriage and assisted suicide, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a member with a moderate view on any of them. When it comes to bickering over Bill Clinton's fate, nobody does it better than this...
...course, observers say the commitment levelsof the council will always fluctuate, greatlydepending on the hot-button issues each semester...
Although tarnished by scandal, the Kennedy name plays big here as do the hot-button issues of the day to the liberal activist community...
...poll, 34% of Americans believe intelligent beings from other planets have visited Earth; of those, 65% believe a UFO crash-landed near Roswell, and 80% believe the U.S. government knows more about extraterrestrials than it chooses to let on. But those numbers don't quite capture Roswell's current hot-button status. "Five years ago, if you made an offhand reference to Roswell, nobody would know what you meant. Now everybody does." So says Kevin Randle, a UFOlogist who, as co-author of the seminal UFO Crash at Roswell and its follow-up, The Truth About the UFO Crash...
...today's political climate, research like this is a hot-button issue. The use of federal funds for research on human embryos is already prohibited, although that ban does not extend to work done in privately funded research labs. That's why private in vitro-fertilization clinics flourished in the 1980s with almost no federal regulation. What some commission members feared was that the same thing could happen with research on human cloning...