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• Balanced budget amendment - August 9th, 2011.

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• Balanced budget amendment will help solve fiscal crisis.
  
  Dr. Jim Garlow Chairman, Renewing American Leadership Action. Statement before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution. May 13, 2011: "This constitutional amendment is necessary to force Congress and the President to confront and resolve our cancerous fiscal crisis. It will end the annual budget deficit and stop the bleeding. And it will prevent future Congresses or Presidents from relying on tax increases or borrowing to balance the budget."

• CON: Balanced budget amendment undervalues loans and debt Kathy White. "Guest Commentary: A federal balanced budget amendment would hurt the economy." Denver Post. July 24th, 2011: "Traveling back in time is no way to prepare for the future. You meet the future by making investments that will pay off. Families take long term loans to buy homes and pay for college. Businesses borrow to take advantage of modern technologies and more efficient facilities. State and local governments borrow to build and maintain roads, dams, schools and prisons. Denying the United States government that same basic tool would jeopardize generations of progress. Indeed, a balanced budget amendment would be like forcing a family to pay the entire cost of a house up front, or making a college student pay a year's tuition entirely with money earned that same year. At the federal level, unless exempted as Senator Udall's proposal does, it could mean that the Social Security Trust Fund could pay out to current retirees only what it took in through taxes on current workers. Too bad if there are more retirees than workers."

• US debt ceiling deal - August 5th, 2011.
• Obama executive order to raise the debt ceiling - August 1st, 2011.
• Pornography - July 27th, 2011.
• Legality of coca production and consumption - July 20th, 2011.
• Ban on sale of violent video games to minors - July 8th, 2011.
  
• Mandatory ultrasounds before abortions - June 30th, 2011.
• US intervention in Libya - June 19th, 2011.
• Should colleges ban fraternities? - June 15th, 2011.
• Random sobriety tests for drivers - June 7th, 2011.
• Home plate collision rule in baseball - June 1, 2011.
• Child beauty pageants - May 28th, 2011.
• Trans fat ban - May 19th, 2011.
• China "one child" policy - May 12th, 2011.
• Release of Osama bin Laden death photos - May 6th, 2011.
• Osama Bin Laden Sea Burial - May 3rd, 2011.
• Return of Israel to pre-1967 borders - April 30th, 2011.
• Term limits for legislators - April 19th, 2011.
• Seattle deep-bore tunnel - April 13th, 2011.
• Should the US arm Libyan rebels? - April 2nd, 2011.

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• Debate: Affirmative action Michigan appeals court strikes down Michigan's 2006 constitutional amendment that banned affirmative action in college admissions, employment and contracting.[2]
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• Debate: Gay marriage Gay marriage was legalized in New York state on June 24th, 2011. It became the sixth and largest state in the United States to do so, supporting the case for gay marriage and reinvigorating the debate on the subject.[4]

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