After years of debate

After 20 years of debate, it's time for Congress to finally pass a ...

Jessica Rich revisits an FTC privacy legislation proposal from 2000 to see which considerations have and have not changed over two decades.

Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago?

In the final week of the 1980 presidential campaign between Democratic President Jimmy Carter and Republican nominee Ronald Reagan, the two candidates held ...

6.2 Presidential Candidates Debates (1960-2024)

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READ: Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript - ABC News

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump participated in their first presidential debate together in Philadelphia.

A brief history of presidential candidate debates | Constitution Center

Debates between presidential candidates have become an important part of the election process every four years, but in historical terms, ...

About Historical Debates of Congress

Speeches are paraphrased rather than presented verbatim, but the record of debate is nonetheless fuller than that available from the House and Senate Journals.

The First Televised Presidential Debate - Senate.gov

The first televised debate occurred four years earlier, when Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson challenged incumbent Republican president Dwight Eisenhower.

What's the History and Future of Presidential Debates? - Baker School

Televised debates have been instrumental in shaping the course of presidential elections for decades, providing voters with a platform to evaluate the ...

CPD: Debate History

The pages in this section summarize available information on major historic political debates. Click on a debate year at left to learn about debate(s) that ...

Balloting for the 2025-26 national high school debate topic will take place in a two-fold process. During the months of September and October, ...

7 Things You May Not Know About US Presidential Debates

What was the most‑watched U.S. presidential debate in history? Find out this and other surprising facts about the political tradition.

Important presidential debate moments from 1976 to 2020

Almost all presidential debate reviews start with the 1960 debate between Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Vice President Richard Nixon.

Presidential Debates in History That Moved the Needle - Time

On Thursday, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will meet on stage in Atlanta for the first of two presidential debates ...

Reagan-Carter Oct. 28, 1980 Debate - "Are You Better Off?" - YouTube

In this clip from the Oct. 28, 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, Reagan asks Americans a question in his closing statement ...

The League of Women Voters and Candidate Debates: A Changing ...

The League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) sponsored three presidential debates in 1976. These debates between Jimmy Carter (D), former governor of ...

6 facts about presidential and vice presidential debates

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump – the presumptive major-party nominees for the 2024 presidential election – will meet ...

Six highlights from Harris-Trump debate - BBC

Millions of viewers in the US watched Kamala Harris and Donald Trump duel for the first time, during a 90-minute debate broadcast live on ABC News on Tuesday ...

MSU Debate wins Wayne State Tournament for second time in three ...

Ephraim Bennett, a computer science senior, and Hina Shehzad, an International Relations sophomore, bested teams from Emory University, Missouri ...

What history says about vice presidential debates — and why ... - PBS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tim Walz and JD Vance might have the chance to reshape the political landscape Tuesday in their first and only debate.

The spirited history of presidential debates - U.S. Embassy in Georgia

Democratic Presidential nominee Governor Bill Clinton (L) Independent candidate Ross Perot (C) and President George Bush laugh at the ...