Word: hot-button
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...think that people who have the opportunity to help their country and the world need to, at times, do that,” Cutler said of his leave. Cutler was one of the chief architects of President Barack Obama’s health care plan—a hot-button issue during the presidential campaign—and said he will continue to work on health care policy in D.C. Cutler first came to Harvard in 1991 as an assistant professor, received tenure in 1997, and recently finished a 5-year stint overseeing the Faculty’s social science...
Senate Republicans and Democrats have been able to agree on precious little in the heated debate on whether to bail out the nation's beleaguered automakers. But in failing to reach a bipartisan compromise after marathon talks on Thursday, they effectively handed the hot-button issue to the person they believe should have dealt with it in the first place: President George W. Bush. And in a statement on Friday morning, the Administration said it would consider using the bank bailout money already approved by Congress to rescue the auto industry...
Gettelfinger also said while he was concerned about the impact of the end of the jobs bank, where workers on long-term layoff basically collect almost all of their wages while not working. The jobs bank had become a hot-button issue that was impeding the domestic carmakers' efforts to obtain federal assistance before the end of the year. Fewer than 4,000 workers at the three companies now collect wages through the jobs bank, which applies only after the workers have been on indefinite layoff for more than 48 weeks...
...teachers from across the country met in Chicago for the first-ever conference of the National Educator's Association, now one of the country's most powerful teachers' unions. The topic of "teacher's tenure" led the agenda. By the turn of the century, tenure had become a hot-button issue that some politicians preferred to avoid. In 1900, the Democratic Party of New York blasted their rivals in the Times for taking up the issue, writing, "We deprecate the tendency manifested by the Republican party of dragging the public school system of the State into politics...
This is not the first time the Republicans have relied upon robo-calls to spur voters to the polls. In 2000, a rallying cry was Elian Gonzalez, the boy who got sent back to Cuba with his father. Elian was a hot-button topic with Cuban Americans who fought to keep the boy with relatives in Miami, and Republicans emphasized his case in robo-calls. "It's a predictable tactic," Coffey says. "Yes, there's some effectiveness. Whether it's too little, too late, I don't know...