What does "emergency" have to do with it?

But since you raised it, does it make sense to define "emergency" by the immediacy of the possible solutions rather than by the need for a solution?

Just as many democrats as republicans (if not more) are dubbing gas prices as an "emergency" and "crisis". Yet they left town without acting.

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