At the moment, negotiations are a nonstarter for all parties.
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Increasing the hours of American teachers, however, is a nonstarter.
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Republicans immediately dismissed the president's latest budget as a nonstarter.
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"It's a nonstarter here," Mr. Student said in an interview.
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Many Republicans say revising the abortion language is a nonstarter.
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But carbon taxes remain a nonstarter in the United States.
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That was an immediate nonstarter for Republicans, as Democrats knew.
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Dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is probably a nonstarter.
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" The problem, he continued, is the offer is "a nonstarter.
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But that amount was a nonstarter for 3.063% of Americans.
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It leaked and didn't fit in her purse — a nonstarter.
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But it quickly became clear that that was a nonstarter.
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Chances of the performance winning an Oscar are a nonstarter.
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For most American presidents, the idea would be a nonstarter.
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The proposal's $1 trillion price tag was also a nonstarter.
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The Democrats emphasized that Trump's border wall is a nonstarter.
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For some people, it's a nonstarter to rely on thoughts alone.
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"It has zero for new fencing, so it's a nonstarter," Rep.
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That is a nonstarter for Democrats, who now control the House.
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Bob Goodlatte, though that would be a nonstarter in the Senate.
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Bright being a former Democrat, the woman said, was a nonstarter.
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That is a nonstarter for Democrats, and no resolution seems imminent.
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If that's the case here, then mesh will be a nonstarter.
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I think the mortgage deduction is a bit of a nonstarter.
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Perhaps most importantly, the proposal is a nonstarter for the House.
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For personally owned vehicles, anything near that cost is a nonstarter.
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An appeal to our better angels is a nonstarter in 2018.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority shrugged off the idea as a nonstarter.
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The principle is a nonstarter in Taiwan, and for any politician.
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Wade | Dems threaten to subpoena Juul MORE is an obvious nonstarter.
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"The Green New Deal is so far off the grid of what's achievable that it's a nonstarter" "The Green New Deal is so far off the grid of what's achievable that it's a nonstarter," Katko said.
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For the home-sharing services, however, this appears to be a nonstarter.
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The White House on Monday seemed to suggest that was a nonstarter.
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The N.R.A. seems broadly opposed to both, however, so that's a nonstarter.
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But they've already rejected it twice, so that could be a nonstarter.
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If an executive can't answer what their triggers are, that's a nonstarter.
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Without those continued payments, many companies view the marketplace as a nonstarter.
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So far, the United States has dismissed the proposal as a nonstarter.
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Democrats have long said that funding for the wall is a nonstarter.
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Some conservative senators have made it clear that's a nonstarter for them.
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Ten years ago, reparations were a total nonstarter in Democratic Party circles.
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Bernie Sanders's single-payer health care plan is a nonstarter in Congress.
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For LGBTQ activists and allies, that kind of compromise is a nonstarter.
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So it&aposs a nonstarter I think both for Democrats and for Republicans.
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When the Senate proposed these changes, it was a nonstarter for the pair.
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That's where traditional, open- bottomed cubicles — so-called surveillance stalls — become a nonstarter.
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Manafort responded to his deputy, Rick Gates, that the meetings were a nonstarter.
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But because Democrats are in the minority, that position is basically a nonstarter.
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But if he doesn't, it's not surprising that Schumer calls it a nonstarter.
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The lack of Thunderbolt ports makes doing this a nonstarter for certain people.
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Diplomats from several European countries said that renegotiating the deal was a nonstarter.
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Despite their merits, corporate carbon fees are often seen as a political nonstarter.
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That makes it a nonstarter for many Republicans who favor a single standard.
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Gail: Why do I have such confidence that the wall is a nonstarter?
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Whether or not music should serve as a marketing tool is another nonstarter.
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And this idea that it is not a form of welfare is a nonstarter.
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"This looks like a nonstarter," one Republican campaign operative said when asked about Invictus.
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We're told Geno being in the picture is a straight-up nonstarter for Alana.
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The idea of setting something up in public with Bluetooth pairing was a nonstarter.
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It is not currently paid for, making it a nonstarter for most House Republicans.
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His complaint with Medicare-for-all is the practical politician's complaint — it's a nonstarter.
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In concert, all of these negatives turned a technological breakthrough into a business nonstarter.
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Just a decade ago, many observers said that any drug legalization was a nonstarter.
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That makes cutting off all United States trade with China a nonstarter, experts say.
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With some women he had recently met, five divorces made dating him a nonstarter.
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Only 6 really seems like a nonstarter politically, even though it's absolutely a reasonable idea.
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LGBT advocates call it a nonstarter, while hardline conservatives view pro-LGBT bills as heresy.
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If it's a nonstarter for King James, why is it OK for a presidential candidate?
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Murray quickly batted down the Hatch-Brady plan, implying it was a nonstarter for Democrats.
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Any position requiring Senate confirmation is a nonstarter, since his colleagues would never confirm him.
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She did not even wait for Trump's speech on Saturday to brand it a nonstarter.
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The problem is it could simply be a nonstarter for too many other Republicans: Sen.
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In the Democratic-controlled House, it is all but certain to be declared a nonstarter.
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Outright quotas for women have been a nonstarter: Todai administrators reject affirmative action as inequitable.
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That is why Carson's proposal to completely eliminate the mortgage interest deduction is a nonstarter.
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But it was really a nonstarter that he did not want to come to New York.
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Keeping that tax in place and increasing the subsidies, however, could be a nonstarter for conservatives.
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That could also be anathema to Iran, which says pushing back sunset provisions is a nonstarter.
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But money for the border wall is considered a nonstarter among Democrats and some Republicans. Sen.
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The bill, however, was paired with language expanding concealed carry rights nationwide — a nonstarter for Democrats.
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Mitt Romney is a nonstarter, as he would be unacceptable to the Trump and Cruz factions.
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It requires a political nonstarter: to prioritize future generations over the energy needs of the present.
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That seems like a nonstarter, since no government would surrender its only bargaining chip like that.
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But the US group of officials who take a hardline approach say that is a nonstarter.
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Pairing a full year of defense spending with a CR is a nonstarter with Senate Democrats.
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And was it a nonstarter to go by the portmanteau our friends had devised: The Hobermuellers.
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These days, nobody likes preachy blue-ribbon commissions, and bipartisanship is a total nonstarter in Congress.
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But even before Trump announced his plan on Saturday, the plan was labeled a nonstarter by Democrats.
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Any agreement that results in us forfeiting control of CNN, whether directly or indirectly, is a nonstarter.
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That might be good enough for some uses, but I suspect it'll be a nonstarter for many.
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Since North Korea obviously won't dismantle their nuclear program before talks even begin, this is a nonstarter.
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Taking on Amazon directly has been a nonstarter for the three intellectual property lawyers Lopreiato has contacted.
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His other indie turn that fall, a small part in Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, was a nonstarter.
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Same with Bernie Sanders, you&aposve got -- it&aposs a nonstarter in terms of a national appeal.
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And Trump again reiterated he would be tackling healthcare reform first — a nonstarter with the investment community.
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If the new NAFTA fails to secure those improvements, the entire agreement is a nonstarter for us.
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The figure remains a nonstarter for Democrats, leaving Congress at an impasse that triggered the partial shutdown.
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"If Duterte approaches the Chinese and cites the ruling, that is a nonstarter," Mr. Santa Romana said.
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But the idea is a nonstarter with the Senate, especially powerful Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.
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Why write this, Tom, when it's pretty clear this would be a nonstarter for the White House?
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In a brief interview on Thursday, Mr. McConnell called the House bill a "nonstarter" in the Senate.
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But most gun control experts and congressional experts view that proposal as a nonstarter, according to Trumble.
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But that idea is a nonstarter in a Senate controlled by Republicans, as even Mr. Murphy concedes.
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But that idea is a nonstarter in a Senate controlled by Republicans, as even Mr. Murphy concedes.
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Democrats want a $15 federal minimum wage — a worthy goal that is a nonstarter in this Congress.
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Both sides have balked at the concept of compromises like these in the past as a nonstarter.
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Scott also said an assault weapons ban is a nonstarter in this Congress, a view Trump shares.
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The bipartisan plan included funding for Trump's proposed border wall, which Democrats at first considered a nonstarter.
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Taking Tesla private is going to be very complicated at best and a complete nonstarter at worst.
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And of course the ability to get a loan and to get to school is a nonstarter.
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North Korea, for its part, has made it clear that unconditional surrender of nuclear weapons is a nonstarter.
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Investors also want her to work with overseas flower farmers for cheaper rates, a nonstarter for Ms. Stembel.
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If it ends up that you're not, well, the S10 5G is kind of a nonstarter at launch.
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And in response to the budget's release, Nelson doubled down on his criticism, calling the request a nonstarter.
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Though there was a stop literally outside her front door, the Tube was, in local parlance, a nonstarter.
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Any child nutrition reauthorization bill that has the community eligibility provision should be a nonstarter for any legislator.
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But that approach doesn't even have enough votes among Republicans, and would be a nonstarter as an option.
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Raising the tax, which hasn't been done in over 20 years, is generally considered a nonstarter among Republicans.
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That is a nonstarter for some California and northeast House Republicans who hail from high-tax states. Rep.
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Democrats have made clear that figure is a nonstarter, however, leaving Congress at an impasse over the wall.
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Pelosi said the change is "a terrible thing," making the bill a "nonstarter" in the eyes of Democrats.
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Ryan would prefer the revenue from tax reform go toward deficit reduction but Democrats say that's a nonstarter.
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It would not include Mr. Trump's border wall, a nonstarter for Democrats that Republican budget hawks also oppose.
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That bill is a nonstarter for Democrats — and it's probably not the bill that moderate Republicans want, either.
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"For them, that is a nonstarter," said Wendy Cutler, the vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute.
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A United States agreement with Syria, Russia and Iran while moderate Syrians are being slaughtered is a nonstarter.
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The Senate's bipartisan health bill is a "nonstarter" in the House without significant changes, conservative lawmakers said Tuesday.
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Mr. Trump said the idea, floated by his new national security adviser, John R. Bolton, was a nonstarter.
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At a White House press briefing Tuesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the Graham-Durbin plan is a nonstarter.
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For Pelosi, sending moderate lawmakers home for the Christmas break without counterbalancing Democrats' impeachment inquiry was a nonstarter.
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And they said the deal was a nonstarter because it did not offer any permanent protections for Dreamers.
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But her 2911 campaign has, so far, been a nearly complete nonstarter — averaging under 22017 percent in national polls.
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To get the company off the ground, the founders approached Tesla for a partnership, but that was a nonstarter.
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What's unclear is what convinced Zuckerberg, who said Murdoch's proposal was a nonstarter at a May 2018 news conference.
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The Graham-Durbin plan likely has broad support in the Senate but might be a nonstarter in the House.
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Let's be clear once and for all: The entire conversation is a nonstarter without full support for women's health.
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If one bothers its owners with a notification every time a bird flies by, it'll probably be a nonstarter.
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The suggestion was a nonstarter with Republicans on the Hill, who are focused on a variety of agenda items.
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It also may touch health care and agriculture programs, which will likely make it a nonstarter for most Democrats.
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"Historically, this would have been a nonstarter," said Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University School of Law.
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So why would Republicans be so hell-bent on passing this scheme if it's a nonstarter with the people?
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It's always been kind of a political nonstarter, largely because the pharmaceutical industry has such a big lobbying arm.
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DirecTV is a much more important asset by far and the idea of selling it would be a nonstarter.
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And I know that, given the dysfunction in Washington, what I am proposing is a political nonstarter right now.
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"The thought that he's going to remove a million people on the first day is a nonstarter," Law said.
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"Making a suggestion that a two-pillar answer is going to get support in the House is a nonstarter."
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But that approach would be a nonstarter in the Senate, where Democrats have the power to block spending measures.
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That's especially the case with abortion, where being against abortion rights seems like a nonstarter in the Democratic Party.
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Obviously, this also a nonstarter for anyone with an Android phone as everything operates out of Apple's Wallet app.
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The president's office, however, declared this a nonstarter because Turkish-style markers do not feature on a standard keyboard.
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For an economy that increasingly relies on technology companies to increase its wealth, slow mobile speeds are a nonstarter.
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That Assad's forces were getting dangerously close to Jordan, and the base itself, was a nonstarter for the United States.
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For much of the debate, those Medicaid cuts and the end of Medicaid expansion were a nonstarter for many Republicans.
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Those in the more progressive wing of the party said any perceived alignment was a nonstarter and unwise, even immoral.
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Once I figured that out, the notion of spending my time helping elect or serve these people was a nonstarter.
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Putting Iranian troops right on the border of the Golan right next to Israel would be a nonstarter for me.
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A second-layer solution would in effect move transactions off of the blockchain — a nonstarter for many in the community.
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The White House issued an ultimatum of demands on immigration that is considered a nonstarter with Democrats and moderate Republicans.
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The Club spent Friday making calls to GOP offices and letting them know that keeping Obamacare taxes was a nonstarter.
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Similarly, Trump's promises to make it easier to sue news organizations by loosening U.S. libel laws is a complete nonstarter.
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" However, the South Carolina Republican added, "anything that would seem to interfere with the Mueller investigation is probably a nonstarter.
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With an arrest warrant outstanding for Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, currently in exile in Belgium, Rajoy's position is a nonstarter.
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Democrats, who are needed to pass legislation in the Senate, have also said the border wall funding is a nonstarter.
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Even if they had some doubts about Trump, Clinton was a nonstarter for a myriad of cultural and policy reasons.
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In a setting this dismal, sex seems a nonstarter, though a hardy few peddle repurposed animal carcasses as procreative aids.
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The idea may seem like a nonstarter at the moment, but its appeal will increase as the conflict drags on.
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Ask me to name who wrote "Moo," and I'll spit out Jane Smiley, but trafficking in numbers is a nonstarter.
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But as drama it's not only a nonstarter but a nonender; it's a red herring that swallows its own tail.
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The idea of taxation is a nonstarter for many, even for those who don't normally purchase soda or fast food.
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Continuing to threaten to withdraw from the agreement or to include some kind of "sunset" provision should be a nonstarter.
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The White House has indicated quotas could replace the tariffs, but Canada and Mexico say that option is a nonstarter.
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The more than 2628 members want Ryan to forge a deal with less spending, which is a nonstarter for Democrats.
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The anti-communist fervor of Cold War politics usually made a public association with socialism a nonstarter in both parties.
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Transportation economists have long sought to make drivers pay their fair share without raising the federal gas tax—a political nonstarter.
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When one of the biggest tech companies in the world is giving them away for free, selling bananas is a nonstarter.
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Trying to get Iran and Saudi Arabia to work together, as he has suggested in the past, is equally a nonstarter.
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The game is a nonstarter (or it can go on and on) because this ass has two heads and no rump.
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But she, too, believes a September rate hike is a nonstarter and said a move in December is unlikely as well.
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"The idea has been a nonstarter," said Jordan Traverso, deputy director of communications for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Any revised Republican plan that doesn't either nix the essential benefits rules or scale them down considerably is a total nonstarter.
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New taxes are a nonstarter in Washington today, and LTC reform is not likely to move forward during this election year.
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The Senate's bill would also roll back Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, which had been believed to be a nonstarter in the Senate.
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Taxing Saudis is a nonstarter and cutting bonuses and benefits for government officials proved deeply unpopular and was reversed in April.
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Still, any effort by the United States to persuade China to reduce its Internet censorship would most likely be a nonstarter.
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Paying for an infrastructure bill by rolling back the corporate-rate cut would also be a nonstarter with the GOP Senate.
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And the White House position that Pyongyang must first denuclearize its arsenal is likely to be a nonstarter for North Korea.
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Trying to come in on a regular tourist visa and then stealthily making your way to Mecca is also a nonstarter.
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"We regard that as a nonstarter," said John Murphy, senior vice president for international policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Former Max engineers, including one who worked on the sensors, said adding a third sensor to the Max was a nonstarter.
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That concealed-carry legislation is a nonstarter in the Senate, and the background check bill has yet to see a vote.
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House Republican leaders still appear focused on a hard-line conservative immigration bill that would be a nonstarter in the Senate.
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That formulation has been a nonstarter for Israel, which itself has shown no sign of backing off its own fixed positions.
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House leadership has already signaled that a warrant requirement to search the database for a U.S. person is a nonstarter. Reps.
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But centrist Republicans say it's a nonstarter and worry that it would essentially gut protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
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As for the second argument -- that Disney should rid its abundant waters of the dangerous reptiles -- Vuncannon said that one's a nonstarter.
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And though the President wants Iran to call him, the conditions his team has established for an agreement make dialogue a nonstarter.
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The biggest problem, of course, will be getting around US regulatory hurdles that make flying cars, autonomous or otherwise, a political nonstarter.
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A committee in its House of Representatives just approved a bill to allow state lawmakers to nullify federal law — a nonstarter, constitutionally.
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Just one more Republican defector on top of that (Rand Paul is a likely choice) could make the whole thing a nonstarter.
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"We regard that as a nonstarter," said John Murphy, senior vice president for international policy at the United States Chamber of Commerce.
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"I'm like, 'I'm not going to drop 240,2000 bucks on dog poop bags' so that was a nonstarter for me," Paul says.
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So perhaps Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, the show's talented authors, will understand my saying that "The Mad Ones" is a nonstarter.
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This is a nonstarter for Democrats and will likely be a major point of contention as lawmakers continue to negotiate the specifics.
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Both Ms. Meier-Zimbler and Mr. Mulkeen say they had a good time on their date, but romantically it was a nonstarter.
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But these plants still emit greenhouse gases and are a nonstarter for activists who want the world to zero out carbon emissions.
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But House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows called Thune's suggestion a "nonstarter," saying that it would not get support in the House.
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Jettisoning these warriors as they navigate obstacles such as post-traumatic stress disorder, homelessness and other related challenges, should be a nonstarter.
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The expansion wouldn't necessarily be a nonstarter, however: "I would think there would at least be discussion on it," Breen told Vox.
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It would also place new limits on family-based immigration, a key point for conservatives but considered a nonstarter for many Democrats.
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Greenblatt denied that the deal would be a nonstarter with the Palestinian Authority since he had not spoken to Palestinian leaders in months.
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That makes it easier to bring the internet to places where sparse population and challenging terrain make cell-phone tower networks a nonstarter.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI), and Ayanna Pressley (MA) — adding any money for immigration enforcement was a nonstarter.
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Source: Strategas That's why Dan Clifton, head of policy research at Strategas, believes the idea floated by Trump this week is a nonstarter.
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"[Alexander's] plan is sort of a nonstarter in the House, and he voted for the 2015 bill that President Obama vetoed," Holler said.
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Telling anyone is a nonstarter because Martin is her boss's brother-in-law and a colleague she has to work alongside every day.
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Doctors told Rabin-Havt to take Sanders's glasses away for safekeeping, but with this particular man, that issue proved to be a nonstarter.
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All of the trade unions made it crystal clear from the start that the first iteration of the USMCA was a complete nonstarter.
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Romney, but Mr. Romney was less intrigued and viewed it as a nonstarter for practical reasons, two people briefed on the conversations said.
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But dialogue with Maduro is a nonstarter for many opponents, who accuse him of using previous negotiations to buy time and divide the opposition.
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In Plepler's not-for-very-much-longer version of HBO, that's a nonstarter: You watch HBO shows on HBO, because you paid for HBO.
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So in April 2019, the trust staff deemed the proposal a "nonstarter" in a preliminary recommendation and advised the trust's board to reject it.
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Plus, any House-passed spending bills that violate last fall's bipartisan deal would be a nonstarter with the Senate, where Democrats wield the filibuster.
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Opening the door to the Senate DHS appropriations bill is viewed as a positive step, but the addition of the fund was a nonstarter.
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But Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) has said that a wholesale permanent reauthorization of the law is a nonstarter in the House.
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While that equation aversion makes the theory pretty much a nonstarter for "mainstream" astronomers, it is the exact thing that appeals to many adherents.
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Uber and Lyft have made clear in their conversations with labor leaders that full employment status is a nonstarter, according to an industry official.
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Mr. Broeksmit tried to extract money from them — he pushed to be hired as a consultant to the committee — but that was a nonstarter.
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Mr. Chemerinsky said that, while it's important to carefully research donors, the idea of not soliciting big donations with names attached is a nonstarter.
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Democrats have called that alternative a nonstarter, while Republicans have argued that Congress has an obligation to ensure that the projects continue without delay.
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An analysis by the Tax Policy Center found it would cost $115 billion over 10 years, most likely making it a nonstarter for Republicans.
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What to watch: Republicans will continue to hammer Schiff about bringing in the whistleblower to testify, which Democrats have repeatedly said is a nonstarter.
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But scrapping the SALT deduction entirely, as the Senate bill would do, is a nonstarter for MacArthur and other Republicans from high-tax states.
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Republicans in the House are trying to move forward a defense spending bill without addressing domestic spending, which is a "nonstarter" for most Democrats.
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Taken together, it seems likely that any peace plan the administration unveils will favor Israel, which means it's probably a nonstarter for the Palestinians.
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Every country in the world has universal health care, for instance, so why is it a nonstarter that he's called for a single-payer system?
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The Sonos speakers don't currently work with Google Assistant—even though Sonos said they would at some point this year—so that was a nonstarter.
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But I suspect that many people just want to listen to what they already know and love, which might make Go something of a nonstarter.
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Josh Putnam, a political science lecturer at the University of Georgia, addressed the idea on his blog, FrontloadingHQ, in August and deemed it a nonstarter.
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Mr. Trump's tweet on Friday calling for a payroll tax cut, which has been a nonstarter for Democrats, raised fears that the negotiations could unravel.
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A senior House Democrat called the idea a "nonstarter," and even members of Trump's party expressed skepticism that a payroll tax cut would be effective.
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House Democrats have long said the payroll tax cut was a nonstarter but were also lukewarm to the idea of just doling out cash payments.
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Cutting off all U.S. trade with the North's key trade partners, as suggested by President Trump in a Twitter post, is a nonstarter, experts say.
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Democrats, meanwhile, insist that a yearlong stopgap bill is a nonstarter, acknowledging that it would essentially forfeit billions of dollars for military and domestic programs.
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And the key Senate Democrats who will drive health care policy if Democrats retake the gavel have already said Medicare-for-all is a nonstarter.
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It also does something that, even a few years ago, would have been considered a nonstarter with Republicans: Adds almost $300 billion to the deficit.
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Asking for a list of treatment centers was a nonstarter, as was getting information about what kind of financial deals they have with the treatment centers.
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Many Democrats are pushing for a "clean" bill to help DREAMers and argue that including billions of dollars in spending on a wall is a nonstarter.
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There are some interesting ones in this keyboard, like the translation tool, but other aspects of the keyboard may make it a nonstarter for daily use.
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The bill — once thought to be a nonstarter — has gained some momentum in the wake of the terror attacks in Brussels, Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.
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And the new deal did not open the door to tough prison sentences for rebels, which the government said would be a nonstarter for the rebels.
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Trump also touted a "great wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border, a longtime nonstarter for congressional Democrats, and urged lawmakers to make changes to immigration law.
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" Meadows, who speaks frequently with the President by phone, called the proposal "a nonstarter" and said it "will not be a legitimate answer to this impasse.
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She is skeptical of the private market and could seek to have the remaining $22019 billion of debt erased, which was a nonstarter plan for Hensarling.
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Democrats insist that while they are willing to fund some measures to increase border security, billions of dollars for a concrete border wall is a nonstarter.
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The one possibility for Trump to have his way with Mexico, with a border adjustment tax, is also shaping up to be a nonstarter in Congress.
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That provision is a nonstarter in the Senate, which is why Mr. Lance and his colleagues are pushing for a stand-alone vote in the House.
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But she agrees with other reviewers who say that privacy concerns about allowing a Facebook device into the home make it a nonstarter for most people.
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Bloomberg, who was already a nonstarter with many progressive racial justice activists, further undermined his standing on a few more core issues during the Times interview.
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Some Democrats pushed for the creation of a new consumption tax — a tax potentially akin to national sales tax that is a nonstarter for most Republicans.
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But what you're dealing with now (wringing your hands over this nonstarter) is why companies sometimes frown on inter-office romantic relationships: they lead to drama.
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At the moment, the SUCCEED Act is a nonstarter for the Hawks, but it isn't inconceivable that it could be folded into a larger compromise. Sens.
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"It would be a big point of contention," he said, adding that attaching CSRs to the spending bill on its own would be a nonstarter for him.
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That's the paradox of the proposal in Washington and carbon taxes more broadly: Why is something so simple, cost-effective and smart seen as a political nonstarter?
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In the case of the documents related to the census, Moss said that approach meant his wading through tens of thousands of records was likely a nonstarter.
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His federal budget proposal with a military expansion and domestic cuts is known to be a nonstarter, and the tax reform bill now looks hard to do.
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This plan is a nonstarter because families would still have to choose between a paycheck and their families at the moment when they can least afford it.
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On the flip side, efforts to cut bonuses and benefits for Saudi government officials did not pan out and the notion of taxing Saudis is a nonstarter.
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But that's considered a nonstarter for many supporters in Trump's base, which has warned him against breaking from the hardline immigration rhetoric used during his presidential campaign.
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The policy has survived so long because government funding of abortion is a nonstarter for Republicans, as well as some Democrats, both on and off Capitol Hill.
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Senate Republican aides close to the negotiations last week panned the Cruz–Lee proposal as a nonstarter that was opposed by a majority of the GOP conference.
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To Democrats — and to national immigrant-rights groups, including those led by DREAMers themselves — it's a total nonstarter, an artifact of white nationalism not even worth considering.
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The bureaucrats and scientists who have tried to warn against the folly of treating every wildfire like a mortal foe have discovered their message is a nonstarter.
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In the longer term, the big question is whether the US will decide that coexisting with a nuclear North Korea is anything other than a total nonstarter.
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This couple would face no technical problem marrying in Israel, but Ms. Geberovich and Mr. Sela insist that their feminist values make such a choice a nonstarter.
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" He said the idea of dropping the trade case in exchange for purchases — something the Chinese had offered the Americans in negotiations — had always been a "nonstarter.
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This is a nonstarter for Israel: Too many returnees would end Jews' demographic majority and therefore Israel's status as both a Jewish and a democratic state. 4.
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I insisted that none of this would go over well with the Republican members, and as the whip I knew that the public option was a nonstarter.
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Mr. Cohn, according to two people who have spoken with him recently, has dismissed Mr. Mulvaney's budget as a "total nonstarter" that no one should take seriously.
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Rachel Harrison's effervescent exhibition "Prasine," filled with skew-whiff sculptures in painted polystyrene, is a paradoxical achievement: It appears totally new by treating originality as a nonstarter.
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At the same time, many Democrats argue that any bill that fully funds a border wall or eliminates the diversity visa lottery program would be a nonstarter.
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Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said during a GOP policy retreat that a deal only focusing on border security and DACA is a nonstarter.
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He said he wanted to repeal the Affordable Care Act — "that A.C.A. is terrible," he told Schumer — which was an obvious nonstarter for the incoming minority leader.
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But tying tariffs to the trade deal is a nonstarter in NAFTA talks, which have dragged on for over a year now with little to show for it.
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And so long as the legislation still increases the long-run deficit, it's a nonstarter in the Senate, which explains why that body has taken a different approach.
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Devine and Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver had floated the idea of Sanders on the ticket, but Clinton considers his age and personal antipathy toward her a nonstarter.
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But both bills make cuts to legal immigration (by eliminating the diversity visa lottery and some forms of family-based immigration), which Democrats have said is a nonstarter.
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Unless the idea is to trial balloon it privately within the Republican conference, so they can hide their designs from the public in the event it's a nonstarter.
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" A secret 2009 State Department cable released by WikiLeaks in 2011 quoted a top Japanese diplomat as calling a visit to Hiroshima "premature" and any apology a "nonstarter.
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But in the short run, it could drive up the cost of filling tanks with gasoline and electricity generated by coal and gas — a nonstarter for many voters.
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Trump initially refused to budge from his demand for $5 billion in border wall funding, a nonstarter for Democrats that prompted the possibility of a partial government shutdown.
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Stephenson said during the press conference that a sale of CNN was a "nonstarter," adding that the company was confident it would not have to sell any assets.
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At a rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend, Trump also made a call to defund sanctuary cities in the funding bill — which would be a nonstarter for Democrats.
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Giving legislators a full year's warning would allow them to correct any problematic behavior; past practices should be ignored, as looking into them would be a political nonstarter.
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Cruz is insisting on a reform to the Senate GOP bill that senior GOP aides say is a nonstarter with much — if not most — of the Republican conference.
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Instead, Trump doubled down on his insistence that any DACA deal also include changes to the legal immigration system, something Democrats have warned could be a nonstarter. Sen.
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The intelligence community has called for a clean, permanent reauthorization of the authority — something privacy advocates on the Hill say is a nonstarter, at least in the House.
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He has made it clear that Mr. Trump would not drop his insistence on funding for a wall on the southwestern border, which Democrats have branded a nonstarter.
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In the meantime, of course, the Senate makes Trump's removal from office before the 2020 election almost assuredly a nonstarter, no matter what the House decides to do.
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But if the Senate bill keeps Planned Parenthood funding to appease those senators, Meadows signaled that would be a nonstarter for him and other conservatives in the House.
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"Comcast's overall size and NBC ownership make a deal with Verizon a nonstarter as the regulatory review process would likely be quite difficult," Cusick wrote a note to investors.
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Without the support of a carrier, such an aggressive push will be something of a nonstarter in a country where most phone purchases are still made through service providers.
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Such provisions, as well as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's estimate that 23 million Americans would lose health insurance, make the House bill a nonstarter with several Republican senators.
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First, the court says Chapo's request for outdoors time is a nonstarter (he's currently being held under strict restrictions) because the U.S. government's worried he'll try to escape again.
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Though any change in the nation's Cuba policy has long been a nonstarter with politicians, Obama's recent efforts to restore ties have made it politically untenable to reverse course.
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Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat who is the committee's ranking member, said at the vote that the plan was a nonstarter for any conversations about amending Dodd-Frank.
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But Trump reiterated that any deal would have to include approval for a border wall with Mexico and tighter border restrictions — conditions Democrats have called a nonstarter for negotiations.
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Instead of the compromise bill, Sanders called on Congress to take up a bill that simply lets Puerto Rico declare bankruptcy on its debt — a nonstarter with congressional Republicans.
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Trump has requested $5 billion for his border wall in funding bills Congress must pass to keep the government open -- an amount Democrats have consistently dismissed as a nonstarter.
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But when I asked Cruz today whether his plan would be added to the main bill or offered as an amendment, it sounded like the latter was a nonstarter.
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Suggestions of trimming benefits or raising the retirement age to make programs more sustainable has been a nonstarter with older voters, who more reliably show up at the polls.
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Trump also reiterated his insistence on a physical wall on the southern border as part of any DACA deal, which some Democrats have said is a nonstarter for talks.
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Addressing other entities as moral peers seems a nonstarter: it's unclear where the boundary of peership begins, and efforts to figure it out snag on our biases and misperceptions.
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Pelosi's bill would "be a fundamental change of business model for the drug industry," Gal wrote, and it's why pharmaceutical lobbyists and Senate Republicans have said it's a nonstarter.
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People who buy cars expect them to work everywhere, so a car that doesn't work in certain parts of the country — or certain weather situations — would be a nonstarter.
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At a meeting on Monday, the DOJ told AT&T executives that either Turner or DirecTV had to go, which AT&T executives said was a nonstarter, this person said.
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But the Trump administration came out against the deal and leadership later declared it was a nonstarter, calling on the White House to first tell Congress what they will accept.
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However, a litany of overlapping territorial claims in the region by the more than half-dozen nations rimming the South China Sea has rendered broad energy development there a nonstarter.
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Unfortunately, the Trump administration remains intransigent, pressing the DPRK to concede the main issue at stake before talks can be held — a nonstarter — and leaving the threat of war looming.
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This has been a nonstarter in Congress, but the White House lobbied state and city officials in the past year to put the idea in motion at the local level.
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The tomboy phenomenon is more than 400 years old and has gone from outsider to aspirational to anachronistic over the course of the 20th century; the tomgirl remains a nonstarter.
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For Hamas, a brokered, back-channel negotiation over security, economic and humanitarian aid is workable, but abandoning its ideology of armed resistance for peace talks with Israel is a nonstarter.
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David Keene, a former president of the National Rifle Association who supported Mr. Rubio in his difficult race for the Senate in 2010, said magazine restrictions would be a nonstarter.
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Another part of her plan — allowing Medicaid to reimburse for inpatient mental health and addiction care at certain facilities — has historically been seen as an expensive nonstarter on Capitol Hill.
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In the document, Hamas reiterates that Palestinians who fled or were expelled during wars with Israelis have the right to return — largely a nonstarter in successive peace negotiations with Israel.
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News Analysis The landscape has shifted so much that a proposal that would have been a nonstarter a decade ago has put the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in a bind.
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They will not blame Mr. Trump, because to fault him is to link arms with the left and an adversarial news media, a nonstarter in an era of tribal politics.
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But Trump's potential insistence on making funding for his proposed wall a condition of a bill — a nonstarter for Democrats — could have threatened a measure to protect so-called dreamers.
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"It's been a nonstarter with Republicans, and it's the traditionally Democratic talking point," said Alana Dovner, a research analyst at Beacon Policy Advisors, which advises investors on developments in Washington.
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The reality of national politics today, in which Democrats are out of power and on the defensive in Washington, means that single-payer is a nonstarter in the House and Senate.
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Lawmakers, the FDA and the drug industry have tossed around some ideas that tinker with drug competition, but anything involving price controls has been a nonstarter for nearly everyone in Congress.
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At least part of the push for congressional action appears to come from supporters of Apple who believe that legislation backing up the FBI's position in the case is a nonstarter.
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Editorial In January, when the Saudi royal family first floated the idea of selling shares in Saudi Aramco, the kingdom's oil company, many analysts regarded the proposal as an intriguing nonstarter.
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Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, Santorum, said the idea of doing a clean DACA bill -- a version of the policy without other provisions -- is an "absolute nonstarter" for many Republicans, himself included.
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Mr. Anderson recommends asking the clinic's fertilization rate — "if it's below 70 percent, it's a nonstarter," he said — and its "embryo conversion rate," the percentage of fertilized eggs that become embryos.
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The organization's already growing numbers have thrust it into the crosshairs of mainstream Democratic politics, where anything short of a pledge to unreservedly back the party's eventual nominee is a nonstarter.
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But linking the two issues is largely considered a nonstarter in the Senate, where Republicans will need the support of at least nine Democrats to get any bill through the chamber.
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Pelosi and top House Democrats, meanwhile, are insisting that any major drug price deal authorize the government to directly negotiate drug prices — a longtime liberal priority that's a nonstarter with Republicans.
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"Their version is a nonstarter," Ernst said before offering a bit of optimism to this political debate that's left domestic violence victims and workers pessimistic for close to a year now.
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It would be a "stone cold nonstarter" for many House Republicans to vote for a stopgap that includes the ObamaCare measures without the abortion restrictions, said one House GOP appropriations aide.
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The threats against Dreamers have spurred talk within both progressive and moderate circles of taking on comprehensive immigration reform — though it's almost certain to be a nonstarter in a presidential year.
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The lack of paper trail for electronic voting, however, is generally considered a bit of a nonstarter, and recent events will likely only make security experts more wary of adopting new tech.
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" The former top intelligence official in the Obama administration said denuclearization was a "nonstarter" for the North Korean government, which he said viewed its nuclear weapons program as its "ticket to survival.
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Senate aides, however, say that proposal is a nonstarter with a majority of the GOP conference, who fear it would effectively gut the current law's protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
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Net neutrality supporters say such a loophole is a nonstarter, and Democrats seem content to let a court challenge to the FCC repeal play out before they come to the negotiating table.
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"It's a nonstarter for a business with any type of national or international presence to locate in a community without national air service," says Faye Malarkey Black of the Regional Airline Association.
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Privatizing those resources was a nonstarter under communism, and so corruption has served as a makeshift alternative, by allowing more private actors to use state-owned resources after striking arrangements with officials.
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A set of 12 demands that Pompeo laid out last year for Iran is so broad that analysts argue it's effectively a call for regime change and thus a nonstarter for Tehran.
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A franchise will live in Sin City — a notion considered a nonstarter just five years ago — as a neighbor of the casinos and sports books that for so long were the enemy.
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GOP aides say the proposal that Cruz and his allies are framing as the potential key to passing the stalled healthcare bill is a nonstarter with most Republicans in the upper chamber.
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But Democrats say that is a nonstarter, because it does not offer a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, and because Mr. Trump is simply giving back protections that he himself took away.
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Mark's dislike of Clinton would make his story a nonstarter for Alex and Michael, but he lives in a reality that they barely graze as they zip around the country taking selfies.
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The summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early and without an agreement in February after the White House said North Korea demanded an end to economic sanctions, a nonstarter in Washington.
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The Slack competitor has been kicking around in some form or other since late-2016, but the $60 a year fee has likely made it a bit of a nonstarter for smaller businesses.
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But a good shoe with the wrong heel is like a catchy song with a wack chorus, a cute dude with no text game — it makes an otherwise-lovely prospect a total nonstarter.
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But it's been clear for months that facing up to the gun mayhem is a nonstarter for the Republican contenders except, perhaps, if one of the shooters turns out to have Islamic connections.
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Clearly, that's a nonstarter on the Lavita tribe, and Angela would just isolate herself further, make herself an enormous target, and likely cost her jury votes, if she makes it to the end.
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Even though the U.N. Security Council resolution calls for an inclusive transitional governing body in Syria with full executive powers, asking Assad to resign would be a nonstarter, his chief envoy said Saturday.
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Democrats have said any wall funding would be a nonstarter for negotiations, and Trump has suggested he'd consider separating the wall from the debate, though the White House has said it's a priority.
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One administration official said asking Russia for help is a nonstarter because the Russians in the past month have been fueling the narrative that the White Helmets are terrorists and going after residents.
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That position could prove a nonstarter among Democrats — whose votes Speaker Ryan would likely need to get any fix through Congress, assuming the hard-right House Freedom Caucus defects from a bipartisan deal.
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans, the incoming president of the organization, said the Republican bill was a "nonstarter" that plainly fell short of the standards Mr. Trump and Republicans set for themselves.
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Trump's insistence on making funding for his proposed wall between the U.S. and Mexico a condition of a bill — a nonstarter for Democrats — could have threatened a measure to protect so-called dreamers.
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The idea of slashing the corporate tax rate to 15 percent appeared to be a nonstarter with Democrats, who have been critical of Republicans for shutting them out of discussions about tax reform.
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Trump and his team have also gone back and forth on whether they will demand that funding for a border wall be attached to a DACA bill, something Democrats have called a nonstarter.
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Although it was eventually defeated, the campaign for privacy changes appeared to gain momentum through the fall, with Goodlatte acknowledging that a clean reauthorization of the provision was a nonstarter in the House.
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It would be a "stone cold nonstarter" for many House Republicans to vote for the stopgap that does not includes the ObamaCare measures without the abortion restrictions, said one House GOP appropriations aide.
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There, he said he told Democrats he wants $5.6 billion for the wall — a figure that is a nonstarter for Democrats, who insist he will get no funding for the barrier at all.
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Some have called the offer a nonstarter because it did not include any long-term solutions, like a path to permanent legal status or citizenship for DACA recipients, who are known as Dreamers.
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Altogether, it's a pretty solid offering, although live streaming of major networks — ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox — isn't available in every location, which could easily make it a nonstarter for a lot of people.
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As a self-proclaimed member of the nuclear club, Pyongyang's position has been that it will go to zero nuclear weapons only once all other members of the club do as well -- a nonstarter.
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But the president's new proposal may be a nonstarter: It wasn't born out of negotiations with Democratic leaders, and they were previously unwilling to finance Trump's wall in exchange for promises to protect DREAMers.
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Even as they promoted their bill, Ms. Pelosi and Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader, acknowledged publicly and privately that the Senate bill was not necessarily a nonstarter in their chamber.
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The central bank can legally buy short-term local bonds, but that has long been seen as a nonstarter, in part because propping up some localities and not others could have serious political ramifications.
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It's the resilience of Sanders's campaign that's changed that calculus, by creating a bogeyman that so terrifies many Democratic Party elected officials and consultants that Bloomberg's record no longer seems like a total nonstarter.
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Without buy-in from Westminster, Scotland's referendum would be a repeat of Catalonia's independence referendum in 2017, and if the Scots voted to leave the UK, accession to the EU would be a nonstarter.
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And we've tried to work with Turkey for a way to assure their protection, that they feel their protection by NATO, but having that S-400 is a nonstarter for America and for NATO.
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Trump has pledged to veto any bill to reopen the government that does not include funding for his proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a demand that congressional Democrats have called a nonstarter.
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It's an immensely convenient integration that'll give DJs access to SoundCloud's unique library of music, but it also falls flat for one major reason: there's no offline support, making it a nonstarter for live performances.
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WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday it would be a "nonstarter" to include Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in any new ruling coalition government to end the civil war in Syria.
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When Elevate Credit tried going public early last year, the prospect of a subprime lender selling a growth story to investors was such a nonstarter that the offering was pulled just before the expected offering.
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But Trump's proposed reforms have all substantially cut the number of legal immigrants that would be allowed into the country, something that is a nonstarter for Democrats and that traditional Republicans are also uncomfortable with.
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White, appearing on Colin Cowherd's show, said he was speaking with his management team and they wanted all the promotional events to be pushed back to May, which was a nonstarter for White and UFC.
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Reaction to the administration's priorities list of tough border security and immigration enforcement measures ranged from dismissal as "noise," to skepticism about the President's commitment level, to declarations of it being a "nonstarter" by Democrats.
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Just because your child has rejected what you thought was very tempting broccoli with cheese sauce, and it ended up being a nonstarter, doesn't mean you can't try serving the same vegetable in another way.
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What it means: The failure of the Coons-McCain plan underlined that with the Republicans controlling every lever of power in Washington, a bill without any funding for Trump's infamous border wall is a nonstarter.
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"Rocketman" is expected to generate enormous ticket sales in countries like England, but the film will not make it past Chinese censors without severe sanitization, something that Mr. John is likely to deem a nonstarter.
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One lesson was that advancing inter-Korean relations with generous offers of aid was a nonstarter so long as the United States remained locked in a standoff with the North over its nuclear weapons program.
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What it means: The failure of the Coons-McCain plan underlined that, with the Republicans controlling every lever of power in Washington, a bill without any funding for Trump's infamous border wall is a nonstarter.
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The idea, which had been kicking around liberal circles for decades, was seen as a nonstarter for any serious candidate because of the expected massive price tag of the government paying for health coverage for everyone.
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Most of the lower-priced fully electric cars on the road today — vehicles like the Nissan Leaf, the BMW i22017 or Volkswagen e-Golf — are afflicted with a problem that is a nonstarter for many Americans.
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That was a nonstarter for leaders, who took every opportunity they could to remind members that an uncontrolled immigration debate just months ahead of a midterm election would be an unmitigated disaster and a futile exercise.
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Democrats have made clear that Pence's offer was a nonstarter and they appear to be holding firm on their previous offer, which includes $1.3 billion in new funds for border security with some disaster relief aid.
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But Trump's proposed reforms have all substantially cut the number of legal immigrants who would be allowed into the country — a reform that is a nonstarter for Democrats and that traditional Republicans are also uncomfortable with.
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"We just think it would be a nonstarter with the Chinese," said one American official, who said that it would be counterproductive if the inclusion of an oil ban led the Chinese to veto the entire resolution.
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Currencies associated with the Trans Pacific Partnership were lower across the board amid news on Friday that Trump's election had effectively made the trade deal with Asian and Latin American nations a nonstarter for the U.S. Congress.
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Fiscal hawks in both parties recalled to The Hill that Obama was willing to support a policy long considered a nonstarter for Democrats: indexing spending to the rate of inflation, known as the chained consumer price index.
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Trump also once again called for a payroll tax to millions of workers to help curb an economic free fall in the coming weeks, though the idea has largely been seen as a nonstarter on Capitol Hill.
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United States officials have publicly insisted that they would agree to talks with Pyongyang only if North Korea agreed beforehand to give up its weapons programs, a precondition most observers believed was a nonstarter for the country.
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Their current thinking, according to the NYT: A full buyout is probably a nonstarter, but buying out enough shareholders to let the company delist its stock is more possible, and could be worth up to $20 billion.
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The leadership of Nevada's influential Culinary Union declined to support a candidate in the primary, but in making that announcement, and through its distributed literature, has signaled to members that it considers Medicare for All a nonstarter.
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At the same time, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus have insisted that legislation to raise the debt ceiling be accompanied by significant spending reforms, even though Democrats warn such add-ons would be a nonstarter.
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And it's not just the ones running for president: House Democrats who represent swing districts tend to be cool toward Medicare-for-all, and because of that, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Medicare-for-all is a nonstarter.
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However, wiping the slate clean and allowing the island to continue along its merry way, hiring too many public workers and paying them too much while not taking serious steps to improve its efficiency, is a nonstarter.
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But Trump's proposed reforms have all substantially cut the number of legal immigrants that would be allowed into the country — a reform that is a nonstarter for Democrats and one that traditional Republicans are also uncomfortable with.
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So taking up a cause that is very unpopular and could help Democrats lose the 2020 election is a nonstarter for many, even those who may in theory support giving people in prison the right to vote nationwide.
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And while a big, New Deal–style government program might seem like a nonstarter in this day and age—just look at the continuing battle over the Affordable Care Act—a jobs guarantee isn't actually so far-fetched.
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Bob Latta (R-Ohio), ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, called the bill a "nonstarter," pointing out that it opens up the broadband industry to regulations that Republicans have long opposed.
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One bill Republicans are selling as a compromise among themselves would address DACA and the wall funding issue, but it still faces a difficult road and Democratic opposition would seem to make it a nonstarter in the House.
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But the idea of trying to knock out the North's nuclear arsenal with a pre-emptive strike is a nonstarter across the political spectrum in South Korea, where millions live in range of North Korean artillery and rockets.
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But chief executives of the big energy companies such as Total of France, BP and Royal Dutch Shell have said that effort is a nonstarter due to their US shareholdings and dependency on Wall Street for financing projects.
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And while passing national paid family and medical leave is a political nonstarter in this Republican-led Congress, it wouldn't be that expensive or complicated to implement because it works like disability insurance, funded with very small paycheck contributions.
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Even before the election, Mr. Cuomo had told Mr. de Blasio raising taxes was a nonstarter given Republican control of the State Senate but that he would provide money for the prekindergarten expansion, people briefed on those conversations said.
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Officials at Harvard suggested that even if the slate were to win, the idea is a nonstarter, pointing out that the endowment is split into thousands of funds designated for specific uses that have nothing to do with undergraduates.
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While the President may be working now to add something to show progress on the issue as he nears the 100-day mark of his tenure in office, Democrats on the Hill are making it clear it's a nonstarter.
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That demand, which could mean tens of billions of dollars in cuts to the anti-poverty program that serves more than 23 million Americans, is likely a nonstarter for Democrats, whose votes are needed for the bill to pass.
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After a launch that was a nonstarter for smartphone behemoth Samsung, the company says it has now made a series of fixes to its $1,980 Galaxy Fold and will make the folding phone available to consumers in the fall.
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Business Republicans will try to use his loss to discredit the Trumpian critique of market liberalism, the same way moderate Republicans made the case that Barry Goldwater's landslide loss in 1964 meant his hard-line conservatism was a nonstarter.
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Yet one team, the Oakland Raiders, said it was still looking for ways to move to Las Vegas, even if many of the owners gathered here for their annual meeting sent word that they considered the idea a nonstarter.
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This technology will almost certainly be cost prohibitive for the foreseeable future, making it something of a nonstarter for a majority of home users (the bill of materials for the current version is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5k).
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Needless to say that for Palestinians, many of whom have long since soured on the prospect of independence, rightly convinced that the U.S.-dominated "peace process" would never afford them true sovereignty, this one-state plan is a nonstarter.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.), however, dismissed the budget request as a nonstarter on Capitol Hill.
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Until now, the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare has been a nonstarter for the party's most conservative faction, the House Freedom Caucus, which successfully blocked a vote on AHCA in the first round of negotiations in late March.
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Gun reform is a nonstarter, white nationalists are not about to be reined in by this Congress, the media is still a target, and the president has loyalists atop the legal system, from the Department of Justice to the Supreme Court.
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Pelosi has repeatedly declared she will deny the White House's request that $5.7 billion for a border wall be included in any spending bill to reopen the government, calling it a "nonstarter" and an issue of "manhood" for the president.
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Flake says he's discussed the matter with the President and remains optimistic, though a round of finger-pointing ensued on the Senate side this week as Durbin declared an offer from Republicans Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn and others a nonstarter.
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The figure remains a nonstarter for Democrats, leaving Congress at an impasse that triggered the partial shutdown -- which has affected key parts of the federal government, including the departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Interior, State and Housing and Urban Development.
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"We support comprehensive tax reform, but paying for it with a BAT or any other tax that will force consumers to spend more on everyday essentials is a nonstarter that would create far more problems than it would solve," Ellender said.
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When the mayor urged the state to create a $15 minimum wage for New York City, the governor said it was "a nonstarter"; months later, Mr. Cuomo released his own plan to back raising the minimum wage for the entire state.
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The cost of a gallon of gas in France is about $6 or more — with taxes accounting for about 33 percent of that — compared with about $3 on average in the United States, where high fuel taxes have been a nonstarter.
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Senators haven't warmed to Ratcliffe, exactly — the White House's strategy of placing Richard Grenell, the fiercely loyal ambassador to Germany who is seen as a nonstarter on Capitol Hill, in the acting director role seems to have forced their hand.
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LOS ANGELES — Netflix softened its longstanding view on movie distribution, saying late Wednesday that it would release three prestige movies in a way that it had repeatedly said was a nonstarter — in cinemas first, and on the streaming service later.
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The latest disaster spending request made by the Trump administration to Congress falls far short of the resources and policies needed, and the White House proposal to offset new disaster spending with further cuts to non-defense spending is a nonstarter.
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Bloom told The Hill that the woman asked for money as high as $2 million in the conversations, an amount that was a nonstarter, but the lawyer confirmed she tried to arrange donations to the woman in the low six figures.
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He is talking to members of Congress about further cuts, and while there are plenty of opportunities in a department that has not exactly embraced technological change, the major reductions proposed by the administration are a nonstarter with many lawmakers.
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Back to Wednesday and that meeting, which convened a short time after it became clear that even the narrowly tailored bipartisan gun control measure aimed at background checks was in real jeopardy in the Senate and a nonstarter in the House.
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Judiciary lawmakers say they have been assured that a more stringent warrant requirement than the compromise proposal — which requires a warrant to view the content of Americans' communications but not to search the database in the first place — is a nonstarter.
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Trump has long demanded $5 billion for the construction of a wall (or other barrier) along the US-Mexico border, a proposal that is a nonstarter with Democrats, whom Trump needs in order to pass a bill in the Senate.
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" Meanwhile, the head of the NRA's lobbying arm, Jason Ouimet, said that the memo is a "nonstarter," because "it burdens law-abiding gun owners while ignoring what actually matters: fixing the broken mental health system and the prosecution of violent criminals.
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What Democrats wanted in return, according to a GOP aide: $500 million to fund enrollment outreach Federal "seed"funding to help states start reinsurance programs, which would offset the costs of the most expensive enrollees — which was a "nonstarter," the aide said.
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She might approve some modest departures from the normal procedure to permit a special master to have a role in culling the documents, but the suggestion that Trump and Cohen should have a first pass at the documents seems to be a nonstarter.
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When it became evident that the proposal would be a nonstarter in Congress, Rubio backed away quickly, though not quickly enough that he would avoid having it used against him ever since by the immigration hard-liners who had never gone away.
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We have: 17A: MAIN COURSE 36A: LAST LAP 11D: DEAD BATTERY 24A: BENCHWARMER When we get to the revealer at 54A, we find out: a "Plan that has no chance of working" is a NONSTARTER, and so are the four theme entries.
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" Robert Zemeckis, who directed "Allied," starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as World War II spies (and is probably a nonstarter in terms of awards), said people have been telling him, "'We needed something to get emotional about; we needed something cathartic.
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Mr. Schumer said a plan that did not address protections for the so-called Dreamers — the roughly 700,000 young, undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children — or the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States was a nonstarter.
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And the measure is almost certainly a nonstarter in the House, where Speaker Paul D. Ryan has promised a vote on a conservative immigration measure championed by the chairmen of the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, if it has the support to pass.
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Mr. Udall has been a champion of the Senate version of a comprehensive election and ethics overhaul backed by all Democrats — and deemed a nonstarter by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader — so his decision to leave has distressed watchdog groups.
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Instead, however, let's say that the stagings of Anthony Tudor's "Jardin aux Lilas" (1936) and Frederick Ashton's "The Dream" (1964) bring her company to peaks that could be admired anywhere, although the world premiere of Ethan Stiefel's "Frontier" proved a pleasantly bland nonstarter.
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Cornell Belcher, a strategist who worked for President Barack Obama and is now advising Bloomberg on African-American outreach, said that liberal skeptics of the former New York mayor would be wise not to assume his candidacy is a nonstarter with Democratic voters.
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House Republicans were told explicitly Monday night the package would not be included, and while Republican senators continue to push for it and make their case, the House GOP insistence on broader abortion restrictions for the funding make it a nonstarter for Democrats.
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Friend said she believes that while the Senate Armed Services Committee will find time to vote people out of committee a contentious nominee may slow things down or becomes a complete nonstarter during impeachment proceedings, with lawmakers increasingly distracted by other matters.
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An eco cycle on a clothes dryer that runs for two hours at low temperature to save kilowatts may be a nonstarter if one is running multiple laundry loads to keep a family clean, but it could work great for a single load.
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Not to be confused with the 2017 Jake Gyllenhaal sci-fi nonstarter of the same name, the Ted Demme-directed, Brian Grazer-produced feature reunited him with Martin Lawrence, who'd played a noteworthy role supporting Murphy in the 1992 box office success Boomerang.
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But then the White House muddied the waters by pursuing abortion restrictions — usually a nonstarter for Democrats — and trying to formalize its proposal to expand short-term plans that don't comply with Obamacare, when Democrats have said they want to do the exact opposite.
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On Thursday, he insisted that any deal on border security would have to include funding for a "wall," and not just "physical barriers," digging in his heels mere hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that wall money in a final agreement was a nonstarter.
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The entire suite of Democratic proposals to improve election security are of course a nonstarter in a Republican-run government, and not just because Republicans have chosen to strategically believe or disbelieve in Russian election interference depending on the president's moods and ever-shifting statements.
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Hoyer stopped just short of saying Democrats would draw the same red line with provisions funding a wall — "I don't want to hypothesize on what may or may not be in there," he said — but suggested that would also fall into the nonstarter category.
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The Trump administration has also continued to insist on the elimination of North Korea's ballistic missile programs upfront -- a nonstarter for a nation that remains deeply suspicious of the outside world and would never leave itself strategically vulnerable simply for the promise of economic gain.
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But investment bankers said on Wednesday that a leveraged buyout of Tesla — which in theory could cost as much as $70 billion if all of Tesla's shares were bought at the price of $420 a share that Mr. Musk floated — is likely a nonstarter.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) dismissed the request as a nonstarter for his party's budget negotiations, which will run through this fall.
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But that gambit resulted in a reform measure known as the Freedom Act and now, as he was then, McConnell will likely be forced to accept at least some changes to the existent authority — a clean reauthorization is almost certainly a nonstarter in the House.
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But now the White House is muddying the waters by pursuing abortion restrictions — always a nonstarter for Democrats — and trying to formalize its proposal to expand short-term plans that don't comply with Obamacare, when Democrats have said they want to do the exact opposite.
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Efforts to transfer the children to less difficult courses, Ms. Pelzer said, were often a nonstarter for their parents, who instead turned to private practitioners to see whether a diagnosis — of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, perhaps, or anxiety or depression — could explain the problem.
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Efforts to transfer the children to less difficult courses, Ms. Pelzer said, were often a nonstarter for their parents, who instead turned to private practitioners to see whether a diagnosis — of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, perhaps, or anxiety or depression — could explain the problem.
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Still, unlike some of the other proposals that have floated in recent years—like eliminating the exemption that makes it so people can't file bankruptcy on student loans—this suggestion by an old-school, business-minded Republican did not immediately seem like a nonstarter on Capitol Hill.
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Crucially, the kind of massive rollback of Medicaid that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said he'd been "dreaming of" since he was in college "drinking out of kegs" was a nonstarter in the Senate, where many Republicans represented states that had benefitted from Medicaid expansion.
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" Democrats, of course, are standing firm: On a call with reporters Monday, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Democrats took turns dismissing the White House's "principles" as a "nonstarter," a "Breitbart Christmas wish list," and the "worst stated immigration principles ... I've ever seen by any White House, ever.
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A single mother of two children who earns $40,000 a year as a domestic worker has no taxable income after paying for transportation, housing, food, school fees, child care and her children's clothing, so writing off health care costs via her annual IRA filing is a nonstarter.
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Read MorePickens: Oil already bottomed—here's what's next An output cut "was never going to happen, the notion that [OPEC and Russia] would agree to reduce their output and help support prices was a nonstarter," said Rothman, founder and president of the Cornerstone Analytics research firm.
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The Trump administration insists on "complete denuclearization" of North Korea and the elimination of its ballistic missile programs upfront -- a nonstarter for a nation that remains deeply suspicious of the outside world and would never leave itself strategically vulnerable simply for the promise of economic gain.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a dear colleague letter overnight Thursday that she and her Democratic leadership colleagues have proposed a 2013 bill that passed the House Homeland Security Committee -- a bill that one senior congressional aide called a "nonstarter" in the current environment.
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There aren't exactly policy proposals for Australian-style mandatory buybacks circulating among the progressive pundit class — largely because it's a nonstarter with the current Supreme Court, which has ruled that there is an individual right to own guns (a premise that many liberals still argue with).
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While Mr. Trump has promised to negotiate a trade deal with Britain if it makes a clean break from the European Union, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has warned that such a deal would be a nonstarter in Congress if Brexit undermines the Northern Ireland peace agreement.
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Opinion Columnist Regarding President Trump's peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the instant conventional wisdom is that it's a geopolitical nonstarter, a gift to Benjamin Netanyahu and an electoral ploy by the president to win Jewish votes in Florida rather than Palestinian hearts in Ramallah.
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Despite that, and a call by Ma Ying-jeou, a former president of Taiwan, for joint management as part of a "South China Sea Peace Initiative," Mr. Storey said the idea had so far been a diplomatic nonstarter because there are so many overlapping territorial claims.
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But it was not until this week that Senate Republicans — many of whom vehemently oppose the idea on the grounds that it tramples legislative prerogative — made it clear that diverting funding from other projects for a wall, in the name of a national emergency, was a nonstarter.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Blinken said the North Korean demand was "a total nonstarter" that violated the 2005 agreement in which North Korea, China, the United States, Japan, Russia and South Korea agreed to a peace treaty on the Korean Peninsula, but only in return for the North's verifiable denuclearization.
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They have made it abundantly clear to me and other Jews on campus that any form of Zionism — even my own liberal variant, which criticizes various policies of Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and seeks a just two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — is a political nonstarter.
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She would put a special emphasis on the most qualified women, perhaps persuading the secretary of health and human services, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, to move over to Treasury — anyone from Wall Street is a political nonstarter — and maybe tapping the national security expert Michèle A. Flournoy for defense secretary.
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But Democrats are warning that the White House, which stayed out of the fray during much of these talks, is ratcheting up demands, insisting on including border wall money in exchange for continuing to pay insurance companies subsidies to bolster the Obamacare marketplace, which they say is a nonstarter.
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Mr. Trump's other big idea, a cut in the payroll tax, was pronounced a "nonstarter" by House Democrats, who scrambled instead to introduce legislation to provide financial help to patients, workers and families affected by the fast-moving epidemic and speed it to a House vote on Thursday.
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Behind closed doors at the Constitutional Convention, when the idea of direct presidential election was proposed by the Northerner James Wilson, the Southerner James Madison explained why this was a political nonstarter: Slaves couldn't vote, so the slaveholding South would basically lose every time in a national direct vote.
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Meadows said Tuesday night that the House Freedom Caucus either wanted to see a one-year defense funding bill attached to the short-term continuing resolution -- a nonstarter when the caucus pushed for it in December -- or wanted to see Republican leaders include more funding of defense anomalies.
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Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonCongress must address gender gap in nominations to military service academies GOP senators press Google on reports it developed a smart speaker with Huawei Sunday shows - Mass shootings grab the spotlight MORE (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.), is a nonstarter for most Democrats.
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"Because there isn't actually a revenue use case for 25G yet, going out and telling your investor base that we're going to spend another $23 or $290 billion, let alone $53 billion, is a nonstarter if there's nothing to justify that investment," said Craig Moffett, founding partner at MoffettNathanson Research. 25.
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Already Democrat leaders in both the House and Senate have called Trump's budget a "nonstarter, " thanks to its provision for border wall funding, increased military spending, cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and drastically reduced budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency, State Department, Transportation Department and Department of the Interior.
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"It would remind voters of what she was like last time — it's a complete nonstarter that she would carry on," said Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, adding that her best hope was to hang on until Britain formally left the European Union in March 2019.
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Key issues Fate of the Gateway project funding: A huge priority for New York and New Jersey lawmakers, which sources say President Donald Trump told House Speaker Paul Ryan multiple times, both in person and by phone, was a nonstarter for him and could lead him to veto the bill.
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And unlike Spacey's supporting performance as J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World — which director Ridley Scott decided to reshoot after Rapp's story broke, with Christopher Plummer stepping in to play Getty — reshooting Gore with another actor as Vidal would mean remaking virtually the entire film, a financial nonstarter.
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Some of them may not participate (in 2018) but there's nothing really to gain at this point by taking on the administration, or the Congress publicly," said Laszewski, adding that behind the scenes, "there's ferocious lobbying going on, on the part of the insurance companies right now, because this is a nonstarter.
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The immigration principles released by the White House were considered by most on the Hill as a nonstarter, and the administration has not issued any specific veto threats in favor of or against proposals floating in Congress "We're looking at DACA," Trump said Wednesday to reporters before taking off for a fundraiser.
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I almost never confided in anyone, thinking nothing I had to say could be of interest to anyone, and from that perspective, which was the social perspective, the expectations of the you as constructed by the I, confidence was a nonstarter for me, and this was in principle how I was with everything.
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That's a likely nonstarter, since it would mostly affect China, which is the North's primary oil supplier and has long resisted such a ban because it fears it could set off a collapse of the Kim regime, a flood of refugees into China and the reunification of the Korean Peninsula under South Korea.
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Although Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have already declared Trump's State Department cuts a nonstarter — and, in September, passed an appropriations bill that funded the department for the next three months at about last year's level — Tillerson still intends to slash the department's staff by 8 percent, or roughly 2,000 people.
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"If you are talking about coordination in certain areas, that is already taking place, but if you want to create a military alliance, an Arab NATO, I think it's a nonstarter," said Marwan Muasher, the vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former foreign minister of Jordan.
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Democrats, led by Reid and Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Barbara MikulskiBarbara Ann MikulskiLobbying World Only four Dem senators have endorsed 6900 candidates Raskin embraces role as constitutional scholar MORE (D-Md.), have called the bill a nonstarter without new funding to help people in Flint, most of whom still can't drink water from their homes.
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Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape Dayton Democrat launches challenge to longtime GOP rep Dayton mayor: Trump visit after shooting was 'difficult on the community' MORE (D), who is running next cycle in Ohio, which Trump carried by nearly 10 points, said Price is a nonstarter.
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Yet as the shutdown moves through its 10th day, it is clear that the House Democrats' plan to take the first legislative action since the start of the shuttering of roughly a quarter of the federal government remains a nonstarter for Republicans, who still control the chamber on the other side of the US Capitol.
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But unlike mobile phones, where the user bases simply couldn't be ignored, WebTV for much of its history was the only company doing any of this stuff, and they didn't have enough subscribers to be taken seriously, so the idea of selling developers on creating a television-formatted version of their website was a nonstarter.
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But Judiciary Committee chairman Bob GoodlatteRobert (Bob) William GoodlatteImmigrant advocacy groups shouldn't be opposing Trump's raids Top Republican releases full transcript of Bruce Ohr interview It's time for Congress to pass an anti-cruelty statute MORE (R-Va.) has said that a wholesale permanent reauthorization of the law is a nonstarter in the House.
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The political trick is to not simply describe the president's recent proposal for temporary relief for the Dreamers as a nonstarter but to describe it as a starting point for negotiations, call for an immediate end to the shutdown and set clear goals for negotiations that a huge majority of Democrats and majority of Americans support.
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Obama's proposed corporate tax reform package, which included a lower rate and incentives for companies to keep manufacturing at home, proved a nonstarter with a GOP-led Congress, which is determined to pursue corporate tax reform only as part of a comprehensive package that includes individual rates, in part, because so many businesses file through the individual code.
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One possibility would be to reduce the pension benefit, but that's a nonstarter: The state's Constitution guarantees that a promise made to current retirees and government workers must be honored, and the courts have ruled that this precludes making current retirees pay more of their healthcare costs or current employees work longer before receiving their benefit.
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A lot of metal fans say that they "just don't care about politics," or prefer to separate the art from the artist, or would like to keep politics out of metal in general (which is a bit of a nonstarter, considering, you know… metal's entire history), and they don't like it when you try to argue with that.
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But I find even his brand of "socialism" a nonstarter, and I suspect millions of middle-of-the-road Americans who would otherwise love to see Trump go will feel the same way when they realize how much Scandinavian-style welfare statism is going to cost them and weaken the long-term economic health of the United States.
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But the White House and Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) have made clear that legislation stabilizing ObamaCare is a nonstarter, and conservatives in both chambers of Congress say they aren't ready to give up on repeal.
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At rallies, he described a forgotten political history of the $1,000 check, from an idea tossed off by Thomas Paine to a musing from Martin Luther King Jr. He happened to start running as the UBI had a bit of a comeback — the Atlantic's Annie Lowrey published a compelling book about it two years ago — but it was a political nonstarter.
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Along with two Basque restaurants, the Buckaroo Hall of Fame, and a giant W carved into the side of a hill, Winnemucca is the test site for Project Loon, a grandiose scheme launched in 2011 to bring the internet to huge swaths of the planet where sparse population and challenging geography make the usual networks of cell towers a nonstarter.
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"We have a long history, about 27 years of history, of talking to North Koreans, and there is also a 27-year history of them breaking every agreement they ever made with the United States and with the international community," the official said, adding that previous offers to denuclearize have also come with "nonstarter" conditions such as withdrawing U.S. troops from the peninsula.
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Democrats have consistently said that appropriating billions of dollars to build a wall would be a nonstarter for talks, and they have threatened to withhold funding for the government, effectively forcing a shutdown, if Republicans continue to insist on funding for a wall as a condition of protecting approximately 800,000 so-called Dreamers: young people who were brought to the United States illegally as children.
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While it included some of those components, the measure that failed on Thursday was dismissed as a nonstarter by Democratic leaders because it substantially narrowed DACA eligibility, and extended it for only three years, while making major changes to asylum law that would make it harder for migrants fleeing violence and persecution, including children from Central America, to find refuge in the United States.
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"Among the many, many ideas landing in my inbox, my voicemail, and my Twitter DMs, are to change nothing, scrap the entertainer, go with an entertainer but not a comic, do a bunch of dad jokes, scrap the dinner — which is a nonstarter for me — or go with a Gridiron model of a Democratic speaker and a Republican speaker," Knox told ABC News in May.
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Mr. Infantino is seen as one of the two front-runners, but supporting the other — Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain — is a nonstarter, according to several federation officials who have been briefed on the organization's discussions, because of accusations by human rights groups that he failed to protect soccer players in his home nation from a bloody government crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011.
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The negotiations have been entangled in President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's demand that funding for the Homeland Security Department include $85033 billion for new construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall that was central to his 2016 campaign — a demand that's a nonstarter with Democratic leaders.
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Mr. Schumer told his staff that the proposal was a nonstarter, and he directed them to quickly spread the word that Democrats would oppose the bill as it was, according to several people involved in the discussions who, like more than dozen lawmakers and senior officials interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the roller coaster negotiations that led to the passage of the largest stimulus measure in modern American history.
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But Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.) and Appropriations Committee ranking member Barbara MikulskiBarbara Ann MikulskiLobbying World Only four Dem senators have endorsed 85033 candidates Raskin embraces role as constitutional scholar MORE (D-Md.), have called the bill a nonstarter without new funding to help people in Flint, most of whom cannot drink water from their homes.
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