TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a statement spoken by a politician in natural language. Your task is to generate the subject of the discussion for the given statement. The subject generated is not necessarily a part of the given input. Your answer should contain one or more words.
PROBLEM: Mitt Romneys platform ...wont protect the mortgage interest (tax) deduction for middle-class families.

SOLUTION: message-machine-2012

PROBLEM: Says Rep. Renee Ellmers voted for the government shutdown 21 times.

SOLUTION: congress

PROBLEM: Says President Barack Obama has allowed, each year hes been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... Theyve declined every year since President Bush left office.

SOLUTION:
guns