There is also the long-simmering debate over whether insurers should be subject to Federal, rather than state, supervision.

In the process it has renewed a long-simmering debate over the merits of public versus private education.

It was undertaken in response to a long-simmering debate among some of the nation's leading economists.

As in the rest of the nation, this long-simmering debate finally broke out into violence during the American Civil War.

Underlying the protests is a long-simmering debate on the mission of the colleges.

And the issue has heated up the long-simmering debate about whether freedom to distribute software could be considered a constitutionally protected right.

The crash has also added fuel to a long-simmering debate about whether the economy is sufficiently diverse.

It is likely to rekindle the long-simmering debate over toy warnings.

The loss revived a long-simmering debate in Congress about the space program and is certain to lead to new hearings.

But some of these steps rekindle a long-simmering debate over what government intervention and oversight the power sector needs.