Tournament: Hallsville | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lovejoy CH | Judge: Sarah Spiker Rainey
Dems are slightly ahead now – lack of Republican momentum
Carrol 8-27
“Analysts: don't expect a GOP wave in Senate” Writer for the Courier Journal, http://www.courier-journal.com/story/politics-blog/2014/08/27/analysts-see-no-republican-wave-in-senate-elections-perhaps-not-even-a-splash/14684831/
Well, right now, there's no GOP wave out there, as far as
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hard and staying slightly ahead, or close to, their Republican foes."
Ocean policy is unpopular- it conflicts with interests diverse as farmers and shippers
Eilperin 2012(Juliet Eilperin, reporter for The Washington Post, October 28, 2012, “National ocean policy sparks partisan fight”, http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/national-ocean-policy-sparks-partisan-fight/2012/10/28/af73e464-17a7-11e2-a55c-39408fbe6a4b_story.html )
Partisan battles are engulfing the nation’s ocean policy, showing that polarization over environmental issues
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is designed to reconcile the competing interests of different agencies and ocean users.
Senate democrats get stuck with nationally unpopular decisions---the plan swings the Senate election in the GOP’s favor
Szaniszlo 7/7 Marie Szaniszlo, Journalist for the Boston Herald, ¶ July 7, 2014 http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2014/07/president_obama_allies_running_away_in_midterms
The Obama administration’s ongoing crises and scandals have made some Democrats fear losing the Senate
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to counterbalance all of the tough luck Obama and the Democrats have faced.
Democratic win key to immigration reform
CNN 5/23 “Obama: Midterm elections will decide the fate of immigration reform,” http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/23/obama-midterm-elections-will-decide-the-fate-of-immigration-reform/
(CNN) – President Barack Obama said Thursday night before a hometown Chicago crowd
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implement an immigration law the way we would pass it," he said.
Immigration reform key to biotech innovation
Scullion ’13
(Christine, “Manufacturers Take the Lead In STEM Education”, January 8, http://www.shopfloor.org/2013/01/manufacturers-take-the-lead-in-stem-education/27254)
The U.S. the leading producer of cutting-edge products such as
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the right time will ensure that the US remains a global innovation leader.
The impact is bioterror
Chyba 4 Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford Institute for International Studies, and an Associate Professor at Stanford University
Christopher and Alex Greninger, “Biotechnology and Bioterrorism: An Unprecedented World” Survival, 46:2, Summer 2004
In the absence of a comprehensive and effective system of global review of potential high
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dramatic results through biological programmes and would choose to direct their efforts elsewhere.
Extinction
Steinbruner 97
John D. Steinbruner, Brookings senior fellow and chair in international security, vice chair of the committee on international security and arms control of the National Academy of Sciences, Winter 1997, Foreign Policy, “Biological weapons: a plague upon all houses,” n109 p85(12), infotrac
Although human pathogens are often lumped with nuclear explosives and lethal chemicals as potential weapons
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for a global contagion of this sort but not necessarily its outer limit.