"I would just say, 'Get something done, move ahead, get something done,'" said Ms. Riessen, 58.
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"There just seems to be a lot more determination to get something done — to finally get something done," Thompson said Tuesday by phone.
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Mark Walker said of the need to get something done.
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There is never an excuse to not get something done.
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"Women tend to run to get something done," McIntosh said.
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You have to give and take to get something done.
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Work together, come over your politics and get something done.
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It was like passion that came to get something done.
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There's disappointment that Congress didn't get something done on Sunday.
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Yes, I'd love to get something done on tax reform.
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"We're going to get something done," Trump said on immigration.
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Trump isn't entirely alone in wanting to get something done, however.
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For Lopez, it was his final attempt to get something done.
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Hopefully the two administrations will come together and get something done.
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We're trying to get something done, not making any big statement.
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This is a guy who knows how to get something done.
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It pushed us in one direction to really get something done.
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When both sides need to get something done, they'll work together.
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They're pretty close, so we can get something done and signed.
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"We are going to get something done," Schumer said last week.
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"We're excited they were able to get something done," said Rep.
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But, that I keep hearing you want to get something done.
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You say you want to get something done but then when you can get something done, limit chain migration, bring down the immigration of the country, you just say no, were not going to do it.
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If they want to get something done, something has got to give.
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"Let's work together, let's get something done," Trump said, describing the letter.
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Take action, work together, come over your politics, and get something done.
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I think the possibility they get something done this year is real.
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It may be a positive surprise if they actually get something done.
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Our goal is to get something done in the next few weeks.
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But concern alone may not be enough to actually get something done.
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The "get something done" meeting typically involves brainstorming, ideation, or problem-solving.
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You just use it to get something done in a simple way.
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"We're going to get something done," Scott told the law enforcement representatives.
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I always thought leadership's intent was to get something done in September.
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After all, when you need to get something done, you call Streep. 8.
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We are optimistic that we think we are going to get something done.
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We'll get something done here pretty quick, and there won't be much fanfare.
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You'll have a better chance in '19 to get something done with China.
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If you want to get something done, there's ways to get it done.
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Whenever I actually had to get something done, I turned off the VPN.
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And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.
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Ryan also faces pressure inside and outside the House to get something done.
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Even when the nation is broadly united, Washington struggles to get something done.
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My mother always used 'we' when she wanted to get something done right.
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Sometimes it's tough to get something done without a little nudge or reminder.
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It isn't about a single person working by themselves to get something done.
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WILBUR ROSS: Well, I'm optimistic we'll eventually get something done for several reasons.
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Those character traits argue that he will push to get something done. 3.
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There will be days when you have to skip recess to get something done.
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And that'll make life easier for him whenever he wants to get something done.
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Are you going to try to be positive, get something done, help somebody else?
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"I'm of the view that it's time to get something done here," he said.
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And people who came to Washington to get something done get frustrated and leave.
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We think we have the votes to get something done that I can sign.
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Whereas the Bannons, the Breitbarts of the world, want to actually get something done.
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Yes, it takes an extra nine months to a year to get something done.
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And we need to spend it with a leader who will get something done.
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I have very low patience with hearing about why we can't get something done.
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"This actually shows, potentially, an opening to get something done with Democrats," he continued.
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The true test of effective government is the ability to get something done efficiently.
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How do I build a team where everyone's pulling together to get something done?
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Will President Trump and the Republicans finally buck the NRA and get something done?
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Sometimes in politics you can get something done that's bad for most people's financial interests.
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Solid support for action There is clearly public support to get something done on infrastructure.
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That's what he campaigned on, I'm going to work with people to get something done.
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The goal was to get something done in August to help embattled incumbents like Blum.
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I think it's very hard to get something done by March because of the complexity.
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But, that doesn't mean the Lakers can't get something done ... after all, it's the NBA.
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And he&aposs willing to say, hey, we might get something done, we might not.
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You're going to have to cut some deals if you want to get something done.
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But everyone understood that we got elected to get something done, not simply to posture.
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Passage of tax cuts last December showed a GOP-controlled Washington could get something done.
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Freedom Caucus leaders trumpeted a renewed optimism early this week that they'd get something done.
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He's certainly trying to get something done, I just don't think it's working just yet.
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"We can't wait for purity tests, we have to just get something done," he added.
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But his demand to get something done appeared both genuine and urgent during Wednesday's meeting.
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"Concentration is being able to get something done in the short-term," explains St. John.
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"He would like to get something done," said a Republican senator involved in the talks.
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From Obama's perspective, that forced him to act alone to get something done on guns.
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"Let's work together, let's see if we can get something done," Trump said of Xi's message.
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She had been pushing for a long time to get something done about the Prevezon case.
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The idea you'd require a supermajority to get something done was reversed for very rare occasions.
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And regardless of what your concern is with Trump, he's pragmatic enough to get something done.
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"Even in 10 minutes, you can get something done, and those can add up," said Stein.
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I think people want to see if we can get the meeting and get something done.
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So if you're going to get something done, this is the right time to do it.
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We cannot have a hiatus of six months, a year, two, three, to get something done.
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We cannot have a hiatus of six months, a year, two, three to get something done.
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All three represent heavily Hispanic districts and are under pressure to get something done on immigration.
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You may have set aside two hours to get something done, but it takes you four.
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"Congress has six months, which is a pretty long time to get something done," she said.
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Often, the only way to get something done is to have separate private and public truths.
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It's only when it's a progressive trying to actually get something done for the working class.
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He has given me a glimmer of hope that he may actually help get something done.
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They've appealed to the Legislature when they couldn't, or wouldn't, get something done at home themselves.
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"I'm optimistically cautious in my assessment that we will get something done in September," Christie added.
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"They want to get moderates and make sure we can get something done," Mr. Manchin said.
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For once since I've been involved in politics, we want to work together to get something done.
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It's just one of those things, you know, you get something done and you have to adjust.
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Sometimes the best way to get something done is not to work on it for a while.
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So he's trying to warm them up to get something done so he says, 'make it better.
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They want them to come to Washington to ... actually work with the president to get something done.
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"They were tired of the corruption, and they want someone who can get something done," she said.
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Having a place they can go to quickly and get something done is so invaluable for them.
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Bottom line: This was probably the last chance this year to get something done legislatively on DACA.
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If DeVos can find her way around those obstacles and get something done, more power to her.
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Policymakers engage in a great deal of wishful thinking because they are trying to get something done.
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"Troy is a conservative who wants to go up there and get something done," Mr. Shattuck said.
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"Stocks are going to keep living on whether they can get something done in Washington," he said.
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"It will have a start time and no end time until we get something done," Flores said.
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"We are going to get something done this year, I predict," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid told reporters.
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He wants to establish that personal relationship to lead to another meeting and also maybe get something done.
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In this case, your enemy today is your enemy tomorrow, and we hope we can get something done.
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"I'm confident they'll get something done," said Mike Tomes, 56, who grows corn and soybeans in Utica, Neb.
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"I think people want to see if we can get the meeting and get something done," he said.
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"Consumers, particularly young ones, find it inconvenient to hop into different silos to get something done," she said.
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"I'm of the view that it's time to get something done here," he said on the chamber floor.
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It's time to take a lead on issues that I cared about and try to get something done.
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"I'm going to be here as long as I can be effective and get something done," he said.
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"Maybe hate is what we need if we're going to get something done," he told a television interviewer.
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Trump has repeatedly insisted in recent days he wants to "get something done" to address safety in schools.
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The dozen moderates voting for the legislation aren't striking a deal with the GOP to get something done.
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He might like to get something done on guns, but he's relatively agnostic as to what that is.
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There is no consensus on how to move forward — only a sense of urgency to get something done.
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" Another presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, said there are enough votes in the Senate "to get something done.
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Great, maybe the Democrats will finally get something done other than their acceptance of High Crime and High Taxes.
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"We're trying to get something done in two or three days that might normally take a year," he said.
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And the third, we want to get something done in America, we have to get out there and fight.
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Limit the tenure of office, goes the argument, and lawmakers will be on a deadline to get something done.
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And yes, Senator Perdue, Senator Cotton, Cornyn, this one, that one, we have tremendous support to get something done.
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"The president wants to get something done, and he urged us to stay supportive," a statement from McIntosh said.
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As in, trying to create a coalition with moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats that could actually get something done. Rep.
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You have a need for information and want to get something done, you just speak and computers do your bidding.
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Come January, they'll have the gavels and the pursestrings — along with the expectation from their base to get something done.
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What this is about working in a bipartisan way if we really want to do it to get something done.
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"I'm not going to vote for a bill that is terrible policy and politics just to get something done," Sen.
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If you're simply looking for the cheapest way to get something done, you're probably short-changing yourself and your clients.
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"It took basically eight years to get something done," Mr. Stables, 22.7, said in an interview at his London office.
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And let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're going to get something done.
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And I think he's so ineffective, people will look for somebody who can get something done who's not a politician.
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And yes, Senator Perdue, Senator Cotton, Cornyn, this one, that one — we have tremendous support to get something done. Tremendous.
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Walker added he's not optimistic Congress will get something done this year but said the best bipartisan legislation is infrastructure.
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In this scenario I have more hope in the U.S. House to get something done before the U.S. Senate fails.
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"It's their best opportunity to work with us and get something done," said Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).
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"At the end of the day, this isn't a debating society; it's about trying to get something done," said Virginia Sen.
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"There is a compassion and sincerity about him wanting to get something done and that's close to my heart," Green said.
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MORE: 10 things Italy does better than anywhere else If she sounds like someone who can get something done, you're right.
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"We think there are these special activities when people want to get something done or they're looking for something," Dischler said.
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Hope is a great thing, perhaps the greatest thing, but if you really want to get something done, trust in resentment.
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There's no public dialogue between the two extremes while a quieter middle tries to get something done, to little avail yet.
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But man, oh man, is that quite a cliff -- and a lot of faith future congress will actually get something done.
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Thus far, Democrats have dragged their heels and preferred to pick political fights with the President rather than get something done.
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"It reminded me of the old adage: If you want to get something done, put a woman in charge," she added.
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Personally, I've found that running "get something done" meetings with consistent results is one of the most intricate management tasks around.
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" She concluded, "Progressives have got one shot and they need to spend it with a leader who will get something done.
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"Progressives have got one shot, and we need to spend it with a leader who will get something done," she added.
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South Americans shouldn't need a world war or a 1930s-style economic collapse, as Franklin Roosevelt did, to get something done.
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The NRA is standing its ground Trump said Thursday that the National Rifle Association wants to get something done on guns.
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"People in a swing district — I'm literally a 50-50 district — they just want us to get something done," Bustos said.
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There is still a gap, though — edge cases where I've only been able to get something done with Windows or a Mac.
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Trump told reporters he believed Pelosi "wants to get something done" and he was optimistic about a congressional solution to the legislation.
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It's for this reason that I find the idea of trying a comfort, and why I had to finally get something done.
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So, I just think what two great powers want to get something done, they will figure out a way to do it.
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Pundits of the Democratic persuasion were immediately asked if Democrats focused on investigations weren't shirking their responsibility to actually get something done.
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I think if they got together and did a deal with the president, they would get something done for the American people.
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They know how Congress really works: When you don't get something done by one recess, the real deadline is the next recess.
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A clash between these two planets will create tension, but sometimes that tension is exactly what we need to get something done.
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As a seven-week recess looms, Congress assembles on Monday for its final opportunity in almost two months to get something done.
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"I don't care what order it is, I just care that we can get something done for the American people," she said.
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"If we can find some common ground, that might very well breed more attempts in the future to get something done," Sen.
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He added, "The powers that be always come together and get something done when it comes to the City of New York."
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It fell to Warren to explain why: We have to talk about what it's really going to take to get something done.
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The dearth of major legislative accomplishments since Trump took office is amplifying pressure on Republicans to get something done on tax reform.
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After briefly indicating support to "get something done" after the Parkland shooting, President Donald Trump reiterated his strong support for gun rights.
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"Doing nothing is the way Albany operates," he said, "so to get something done, you have to be constantly fighting for this."
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This is hard to do because you have to learn to… You probably think you know exactly how to get something done.
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President Barack Obama accepted a less-than-perfect and certainly not progressive health care bill to get something done on the issue.
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The boom of the home assistant also educates some people to talk to a device, talk to a machine, to get something done.
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If we really want to get something done on gun safety, we should throw out the politicians and put the students in charge.
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But there are people of goodwill on the Republican side and the Democratic side who I've seen want to get something done here.
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Democrats want to show they can get something done, even though it could also hand Trump a bipartisan accomplishment to tout in 2020.
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MACCALLUM: No company in America would tell you that it would tell you that it would take 21968 days to get something done.
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It's possible that Republicans who see this moral and legal crisis for what it is could unite with Democrats and get something done.
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Rick Scott, even acknowledged Sunday that it'd be "tough to get something done" as long as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi controlled her rank.
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We are going to have to talk to everyday Americans and then roll our sleeves up and get something done for the country.
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In the eyes of his supporters, Mr. Modi is the surest bet for this country to grasp glory and actually get something done.
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Ever since Trump was elected, infrastructure has been touted as one of the few policy areas where he could actually get something done.
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"I can tell you that the administration is engaged on a daily if not hourly basis, trying to get something done," he said.
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"We wanted people to notice that they weren't getting government services to put pressure on Congress to get something done," Ms. Rivlin said.
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Y.: Why don&apost we get something done on the issue that numerous polls say is the number one priority of Americans, health care?
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If we start the debate from a place that acknowledges one truth doesn't cancel another truth out, maybe we can actually get something done.
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Lawmakers have another incentive to work fast: Their Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks could be in jeopardy if they can&apost get something done soon.
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It's a way of constantly proving to yourself that you can get something done in the short amount of time that you have to.
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But even those involved don't have a great sense of how long it will take to get something done -- if they can at all.
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Working together, Congress should surprise the country, remove the politics from setting broadband internet standards and get something done most Americans can agree on.
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The intensity usually wears on politicians and most inevitably make a mistake, a rash decision, or otherwise compromise their ability to get something done.
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"It could be five years from now, 10 years from now before we were able to actually get something done," Obama told the BBC.
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GOP deficit hawks are now willing to embrace a plan that does not immediately pay for itself in order to get something done. Rep.
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And I think the White House just wants to get something done that will fulfill the promise the president made to repeal and replace.
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They swing to the other side in part because they are disgusted with policy gridlock and hope a new team can get something done.
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U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said last week he was "optimistic that we can get something done in principle in the next little bit".
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"I'm as optimistic as I've been in a long time about the potential she brings to finally get something done on infrastructure," he said.
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I think he's got a major responsibility in Game 3 to come out and get something done, whether it's for himself or for teammates.
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But then if I can find some middle ground and actually get something done, like on human trafficking, I'm going to go for it.
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He has complained that Republicans got "rolled" because the Trump administration made too many concessions to Democrats in a desire to get something done.
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But this also creates a great occasion to get something done — something grander than Mr. Cuomo's current plan, a project born of political expediency.
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" He added, "These gestures were important for building confidence—but also because they showed we could reach into our systems and get something done.
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"We're going to get something done, we hope bipartisan," Trump said Monday of immigration reform, which he plans to talk about in the speech.
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After all, moving any legislation through regular order requires 60 votes in the Senate — they need to work with Democrats to get something done.
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Now it's on Trump to decide if he can work with Congress to get something done while he is being investigated and actually fix NAFTA.
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MICHAEL CORBAT: I think expectations, Carl, are there that we are going to get something done in the second quarter, in the next few weeks.
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"As customers consolidate they are interested in dealing with suppliers where they have confidence they will make a call and get something done," he said.
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Those senators have staked out the now-controversial position that they would rather get something done than nothing, even if it means compromising with Democrats.
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It'd be nice to see something more moderate, so everyone could get something done—instead of being isolated and name-calling and blaming each other.
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Pushing the deadline right up to Christmas certainly doesn't make anyone on Capitol Hill happy, but it does create another lever to get something done.
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"The universal frustration is governors on both sides of the aisle are working hard and trying to get something done on this issue," Hogan said.
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After months of sputtering talks, momentum picked up this weekend as Mr. Trudeau inserted himself and made clear that he wanted to get something done.
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"There is some talk out there that communities — our constituents — whether they provide contributions or not, they are expecting us to get something done," Rep.
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"He rallied the people to put pressure on the Congress, then negotiated on a bipartisan basis behind the scenes to get something done," he said.
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Our Echo Auto review lays it out: Alexa regularly sends you down infuriating and circular discussion paths when you're just trying to get something done.
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This leaves Trump two options if he wants to get something done: Fall in line with the rest of his party, or reach across the aisle.
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And the third, we want to get something done in America, we have to get out there and fight for the things that touch people's lives.
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Those Democrats vying for the presidential nomination are sure to run on a message of radical upheaval; their lesser-known comrades might actually get something done.
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" Discussing the case in an interview with Larry King in 1989, Trump told him, "Maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done.
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To say, "There are huge Republican priorities X, Y, Z, and we can let you win on them if we get something done on this issue"?
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"I am not going to vote for a bill that is terrible policy and horrible politics just because we have to get something done," said Sen.
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But, but, but: Even my most pessimistic sources tell me they think the political urgency to get something done will override the concerns of the holdouts.
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This is a classic kind of a faculty attitude, right, is that you're useful ... JH: It's a chance to get something done before you condemn yourself.
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"The second part is it shows we work in a bipartisan manner, will be able to get something done and can work with Trump," he said.
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Simple arguments tend to work best, and Democrats have the simpler case to make: Republicans control everything, so it's their job to get something done. 2.
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" Trump said he also "spoke at length" with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and insisted there exists a "tremendous spirit to get something done.
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Since Mr. Trump's election, Democrats have repeatedly cited infrastructure as one policy issue in which they see potential for working with him to get something done.
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Now, the concern among some is that when it comes down to negotiations with Republicans, Biden would be willing to make concessions to get something done.
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" Discussing the Central Park Five case at that time with Larry King, Trump said, "Maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done.
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"I think we're making a lot of progress and I can tell you there's a tremendous feeling that we want to get something done," he added.
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Voter pressure around the topic — and the ability to score a victory ahead of the 2020 election — are major factors pushing lawmakers to get something done.
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"Well I just got off the phone with the president, and I think he and I both want to get something done," Paul told reporters Monday.
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To "faff" about is to procrastinate, or simply not get something done, like I am in the photo above, looking at my phone at the office.
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Mars enters Taurus today and activates the communication sector of your chart—if you want to get something done, you're going to need to talk about it!
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"I really do believe Democratic and Republican — the people sitting around this table — want to get something done in good faith," Trump said during the bipartisan meeting.
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I said, 'of course I hate these people and let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done.
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But the Pixelbook is both light enough and thin enough that normal people could conceivably hold it with one hand long enough to actually get something done.
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I've met with Senator [Dick] Durbin [of Illinois] four times, after different mass shootings since Sandy Hook, telling him to plead with congress to get something done.
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"Ultimately, this all kind of comes down to a choice: Are all of us willing to give a little to get something done?" the Wisconsin Republican continued.
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And I get to sort of build a business where we're matching people every day who have time and skills to get something done ... Whatever it is.
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"The fact that terrorism has become intertwined with the gun issue puts greater pressure on Republican senators and Senator McConnell to get something done," Mr. Schumer said.
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It's fine to lay them out; but I actually want to get something done for the people that we're concerned about, not just be on their side.
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Markets have been fueled this year in part on belief that the White House and GOP-led Congress can get something done on badly needed tax reform.
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Scott said he will meet with several lawmakers — though he did not specify who — "to make sure they immediately get something done" on funding for Zika response.
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"There's a tremendous feeling that we want to get something done," Mr. Trump said in the Roosevelt Room on Thursday, adding that the N.R.A. shares the sentiment.
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Trump was dismissive of the idea of including so-called concealed carry reciprocity measures alongside broader legislation, arguing it would delay the effort to get something done.
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It's easy to think of email as a way to get something done quickly, but when you do this to the extreme, you come across as inhuman.
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"I am more concerned that our consumers are going to get a big pie in their face if we don't get something done about this," she said.
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"I just want to work and sit down and try to get something done, but no one's asked us," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program.
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At one point, she even criticized Pai for threatening to go around her and use what's essentially executive power to get something done, should she fail to vote.
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So there will be a clear effort -- on all sides -- to get something done before the House is set to leave Washington at the end of next week.
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In particular, often claims that people had been trying and failing to get something done for a specific, large number of years before he came along and delivered.
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"Most of the CEOs I'm talking to would like to get something done this year and not have to deal with the noise of next year," Richert said.
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But we should fight in a way that leaves open the possibility that, where we do agree, we might be able to get something done across party lines.
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What I was most impressed with in our years in the Senate together was she reached across party lines to try to build coalitions to get something done.
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"If (Republicans) can't get something done, you could see more of a bid come back into gold," said Josh Graves, senior market strategist at RJO Futures in Chicago.
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"If they didn't get something done, or something did not go the way a manager wanted it to, that was their form of punishment," he told the Times.
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In response, the opposition Labour Party and other smaller opposition parties returned from their summer breaks ready to rally together to get something done as quickly as possible.
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To be a good leader, you have to put pressure on yourself, so if it's important for you to get something done, take a public stand on it.
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"We're hopeful that the Senate can take the pause it needs to take and move forward on this issue so we can get something done," Ryan told reporters.
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Teenagers who might otherwise be ignored are sending messages that are reaching millions and, in some cases, publicly challenging elected officials in an effort to get something done.
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Everybody was working like crazy, stuff was falling off the walls, people were welding, sawing, sparks were flying, and I was like, perfect, now I can get something done!
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She's requesting a meeting and we'll have a meeting right after I get into the White House and it'll be, I think we're gonna get something done very quickly.
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Even walking up to the plate, there's a confidence to him, there's a belief that he's going to get something done no matter who the pitcher is out there.
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"The difference for young voters and for all voters is the ability to get something done," Robby Mook, her campaign manager said in an interview with MSNBC this week.
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After all, Alexa can be pretty ditzy, too, but when you literally don't have to lift a finger to get something done, it's a whole other level of delight.
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Having worked in government for quite a few years myself, I will admit these are pretty cumbersome guidelines if you want to get something done as governor of Mississippi.
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"I think once we've passed tax reform and infrastructure, as long as we get something done on the other big things, I feel comfortable that it'll work out," Rep.
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"It could be five years from now, 10 years from now before we're actually able to get something done," Obama told the British broadcaster in an excerpt posted online.
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If the House moderates really want to get something done on immigration, they should not be duped by their leadership for a bill that they know isn't going anywhere.
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You could say it follows the law of consolidation of taps: the more taps it takes to get something done, the less likely someone is to use the app.
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As renowned GOP strategist Mark McKinnon told Politico in 2014, Steyer knows everyone, and he doesn't shy from tapping his vast network when he wants to get something done.
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Its presence is small enough to let you momentarily focus on workday tasks, maybe even get something done, but obtrusive enough to jar you after just a few moments.
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It would be natural for the Kremlin, aware of that relationship, to reach down to that level to try to get something done with the Trump campaign, analysts said.
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He recently visited the White House twice with proposals on manufacturing and coal, neither he nor Trump are politicians and they both ran to get something done, he said.
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The emergency declaration did little but draw attention to the crisis, making it a public priority of the administration and placing added pressure on Congress to get something done.
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"I took the engagement ring off, and I'd love to wear it again, I really would, but I'm not putting it back on until we get something done," she says.
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From the developer's perspective, they are all about driving the usage of their apps, but from the user's perspective, they look like an easy way to get something done quickly.
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He has to cross that bar on every single one of those issues he talked about on the Iran deal if he&aposs to get something done with North Korea.
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If you have to get something done and you don't have that experience, let's face it, this is an alternate universe here so you need someone who understands the place.
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Take this election -- take this election where the people of Alabama said we want to get something done, we want you to find common ground, we want you to talk.
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So if you think you're going to get here and snap your fingers and flip a light switch that you can get something done, you've got a rude awakening coming.
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During a White House meeting on Thursday, Trump told Republican senators that he wants to get something done to address "the underlying problem," but only after the ruling, said Sen.
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"For someone of Spike's stature to have to extend himself the way he has to to get something done is just insulting," she told me, growing emotional as she spoke.
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Timeline In order to get something done by the Friday deadline, House Democrats will likely have to post something Monday or Tuesday (reminder: the chamber has a 72-hour rule).
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"We're not going to oppose something simply because it has the name Trump on it, but we will certainly not sacrifice our principles just to get something done," Schumer said.
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But after 2900 months of across-the-board control of Washington and no major legislative accomplishments to show for it, Republicans are eager to get something done by year's end.
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Under pressure to get something done, some Republican deficit hawks appear ready to abandon the fiscal rectitude that they embraced during the Obama administration to help salvage Mr. Trump's agenda.
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Or is it a new Cruz, one chastened by his loss in the presidential race, who will return to his job eager to work with them to get something done?
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And having been foiled in court on his visa restrictions and in the House on his Obamacare repeal, Trump would probably like to show that he can get something done.
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" In an interview with Larry King in 1989 unearthed from CNN's archives, Trump laid out his position, telling King, "maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done.
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Maybe you take a walk to try out a new lunch spot instead of ordering a desk salad, or you reward yourself by scrolling through Instagram when you get something done.
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While Mr. Trump's rhetoric may play well nationally, it may be a tougher sell at the state level, where personalities, local politics and the driving need to get something done dominate.
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The decorated veteran and war hero, who returned to Washington after being diagnosed with brain cancer last week, said "to hell" with the "bombastic loudmouths" -- it's time to get something done.
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Do they try to find a way to cooperate with Democrats and get something done after years of stasis in Washington, perhaps as a way to move beyond the Trump phenomenon?
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And if you have young kids, that often means trying to get something done while your child asks increasingly plaintively why you're on the phone or computer instead of playing blocks.
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Braids are versatile, but if there's anything that unites their diverse manifestations, it's a sense of practicality: A person with her hair braided is a person preparing to get something done.
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House Democrats' prescription drugs bill may have just been introduced, but Senate Republicans are already over it — even as President Donald Trump keeps promising voters he wants to get something done.
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"From a sentiment perspective, the market is really getting behind the idea that they are going to be able to get something done (in terms of tax reform), something meaningful," Bechtel said.
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If you really need to get something done, you will find a good reason why you have to pursue it otherwise your excuses will constantly convince you why it can't be done.
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"With the last election, we do have people in office that are willing to get something done about this issue, and that are willing to fight with us," he said on Thursday.
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Google announced its conversation actions for the Google Home this past week, which are similar to the Amazon Echo's skills but instead prompt users to converse with Home to get something done.
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But here's the bottom line: infrastructure remains an issue on which Congress can get something done if we work together in a bipartisan manner on proposals that can legitimately attract broad support.
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Given Congress's broad inability to work on bipartisan legislation — well, beyond banking deregulation — Republicans might see the expanded CRA as a way to get something done, even if the result is destructive.
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"But if there's a real effort made to try to close out and to compromise ... I'm optimistic that we can get something done in principle in the next little bit," he said.
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The inability to get something done on health care has rattled donors and the base -- both of which have made clear to sitting lawmakers of their distaste for the efforts so far.
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"When I'm yelling at someone, nothing is getting done, but when we find a common goal and purpose, and start collaborating together to create partnerships, we can get something done," he said.
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San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich called on lawmakers to get "off their asses" and get "something done" in the wake of two mass shootings that took place over the weekend.
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"We're hopeful that the Senate can take the pause it needs to move forward on this so we can get something done," House Speaker Paul Ryan said at a press conference Tuesday.
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"I think we're going to need some kind of understanding at the end of this week or the first of next week to really get something done before the 20th," Shelby said.
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A GOP source close to the White House told CNN's Pamela Brown that Trump was "extremely anxious" to get something done and expected to see some action in the next few weeks.
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"We're close here on this and then part of it is as the calendar ticks over another page or two, we either get something done or we live with Obamacare," said Iowa Rep.
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Mattingly: Put it this way, Republicans are very happy the White House wants to put a ton of energy behind tax reform -- they'll need it if they ever want to get something done.
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"No question it relieves pressure that Republicans may be feeling to get something done before the election, but I also don't think it means Republicans will stop working on it," said the source.
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Mr. Aguilar said that he and other conservative Hispanic leaders had gotten behind Mr. Trump because they thought he would be able to work with Congress to get something done on immigration reform.
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That these leaders, who bring crucial credibility to the conservative conversation, are convening today — the same day that some Dreamers must renew their applications — demonstrates there is real momentum to get something done.
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The really big question about Trump and infrastructure, ever since he won the election, is whether he actually wants to get something done on this or if it was just a campaign line.
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"I think they had an opportunity to get something done in the palm of their hand, and they bungled it," said Eric Jackson, a significant shareholder, to the New York Times in 2008.
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It's clear the White House and Congress are desperately rushing, trying to get something done that they can say is repealing Obamacare before anyone notices what the legislation they're drafting would actually do.
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Mr. Trump's chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, dismissed reports that Mr. Trump asked his cabinet to draft a trade deal with China and said "there's no massive movement" to get something done quickly.
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And what happened early on is people started relying on me because they knew if they asked me to get something done, including Roone Arledge" — the ABC executive — "I would get it done.
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But I think the job of a nominee, and certainly the job of the president, is to galvanize and not polarize that majority and work with the American people to get something done.
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Surveying aides and lawmakers about why, exactly, things appear to actually be functioning now, a common theme comes back to the idea that lawmakers want to prove they can actually get something done.
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If you want to get something done, such as running a sophisticated test for a viral infection on millions of people and sorting out how to treat the ill, you need a bureaucracy.
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Now, as Republicans bid farewell to their control on the house, the lame duck session appears to be one of the last opportunities to potentially get something done before Congressional dynamics shift again.
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The really big question about Trump and infrastructure, ever since he won the election, had been whether he actually wanted to get something done on this or if it was just a campaign line.
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Around 43 percent of citizens said they paid a bribe to get something done in the past one year, according to a national survey by community engagement platform Local Circles released earlier this month.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Republicans have been working behind closed doors on health care for several weeks, and it's now close to do-or-die time if they want to get something done this summer.
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Everyone knows what it's like to suffer through a long, pointless meeting at work, one where you restlessly count the minutes until you can go back to your desk and actually get something done.
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Team: Sacramento KingsOne thing to know: Hield's contract negotiations threatened to get ugly when he called the Kings' offers insulting and said he would find a new team if they didn't get something done.
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Using a bot offers a more personalized searching experience than just using Google and, ideally, it's more convenient than having to hop out of your chat app and into another to get something done.
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I plan to ask them, tonight I'm having dinner with a couple guys in a bipartisan [group] and I'm going to ask them, 'What are you doing, and can we finally get something done?
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"It could be five years from now, 10 years from now before we're actually able to get something done," Obama told the BBC when asked about the prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal.
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But, the politics of what's good for O'Rourke's presidential hopes don't align terribly well with congressional Democrats' goal of using the latest series of mass shootings to get something done on expanding background checks.
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The bottom line: Trump certainly has a political incentive to get something done on drug prices, but some of these policies could go a long way toward helping Americans — especially seniors — afford their drugs.
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"Every day is crucial and so that's why we're trying to get something done fast enough, and it's quite obvious that some of the top targets of candidates ended up saying no," the source continued.
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But at least you're the one person that's been able to go out there and get something done and show some accomplishment in their life — other than this bill or that bill passed or stopped.
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Justice, who recently visited the White House twice with proposals on manufacturing and coal, told the crowd that neither he nor Trump are politicians, explaining that they both ran for office to get something done.
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Trump told reporters after the meeting that he is confident that Congress will get something done, saying that he'd like to "see a permanent deal" to protect DREAMers that includes border security funding as well.
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And with the Senate Democrats facing a tough electoral map in 2018, they very well could lose their majority only halfway through a Clinton term, meaning they have just 18 months to get something done.
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Obama has been a member, he has not reached across party lines to accomplish anything significant, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party to get something done.
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A significant part of that is making sure the FDA is part of the process," Schumer said, adding later, "I assure my colleagues that we will work together to get something done and done quickly.
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Their children go to the same school, and Mr. Mactaggart knew that Mr. Arney was a supporter of ballot measures as a way for ordinary citizens to get something done outside of the political system.
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" Robert Thompson, 78, a former businessman who grew up with "eight magnificent sisters," had this to say: "My dad used to say, 'If you want to get something done give it to a busy man.
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Privately, many Democrats feel that they would ultimately be willing to compromise with Republicans out of fear of Trump's policies and for the opportunity to get something done for a population they've long sought to protect.
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His message was aimed at Republicans and voters who backed the effort to overhaul the law: this was a critical time to get something done now that the party controls the White House and the Congress.
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When I was using the tiny screen, I just wanted to get something done quickly and put it away because the screen was small, and I wasn't in a place where I wanted to unfold it.
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Or maybe you had one friend with a rack of preamps and reverb, a decent mic and a Tascam Portastudio, and you had to bring your ideas to their house and try to get something done.
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Each environment can provide elements better suited to beating some challenges, too, so there's the added gameplay complexity of surviving a run until you make it to the next one in order to get something done.
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The White House budget director, Mick Mulvaney, said on Sunday lawmakers should stay in session to get something done on healthcare - even if this means postponing votes on other issues such as raising the debt ceiling.
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The question now is whether Republicans view their losses in Virginia as a message to put aside their concerns with the tax plan to get something done, or distance themselves from Trump and exert their independence.
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Having a four-point plan that unified Republicans was smart politically, but it wasn't sufficient to show the country that Republicans and Democrats could come together and get something done for the good of the country.
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Until now, the tax bill has moved much more swiftly through Congress than many expected; the momentum to get something done by the end of the year has driven many to look past their policy qualms.
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Mr. Grassley said that he while appreciated Mr. Kushner's desire to get something done, he did not support any effort to try to address prisons without fixing what he saw as fundamental unfairness in sentencing laws.
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"Bernie supports the filibuster, but I want to get rid of the filibuster because I want to get something done," Warren said, referring to the Senate rule that lets a minority of the chamber block legislation.
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"I think all of us realize that it's going to take compromise on this issue for us to get something done and to protect the Dreamer population, which is certainly a goal of mine," Collins said.
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Democrats had soured a bit on these stabilization bills after Republicans repealed the individual mandate despite expert warnings that it would raise premiums and damage the markets, but still signaled they wanted to get something done.
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Pelosi and Schumer understood that type of proposal wasn't going to gain traction with House Democrats, but wanted to give the appearance of doing what they can to get something done for the American people anyway.
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Unlike some of his Senate colleagues, who prefer to stick closely to the partisan script or avoid controversy, Graham very much likes to be at the table — to try to make an impact and get something done.
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Number two is how much time is Trump going to give China to get something done on North Korea before the U.S. starts moving on U.S.-China trade, by far the most important issue for your viewers.
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The only slim chance Ryan has to remain as Speaker and get something done is for Trump to win the White House and Ryan to find a way to eat some very public crow to Trump's satisfaction.
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"Often what I see is wonderful activism that highlights a problem but then people feel so passionately... they never take that next step and say now I've got to sit down and get something done," he said.
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"This is a rare moment when it may be in the interest of both parties to get something done, and it shows," said Mr. Schumer, who called the appropriations harmony the "mirror image" of the court fight.
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"Compared to how optimistic I was the week before now ... I'm very pessimistic," Grassley told constituents in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, before adding that he thinks Congress will get something done even if repeal now and replace later.
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The White House budget director, Mick Mulvaney, said on Sunday lawmakers should stay in session to get something done on health-care — even if this means postponing votes on other issues such as raising the debt ceiling.
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The back and forth we have is, "Yes, of course we want to work together to get something done," but if they're not going to that place, the public will know that that is what that is.
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ON MY RELATIONSHIP TO THE PRESIDENT, HE'S PRAISED ME IN TWEETS, HE'S CALLED ME NAMES IN TWEETS, IT DOESN'T AFFECT ME, I STICK TO MY VALUES AND MY DESIRE TO GET SOMETHING DONE WITHOUT SACRIFICING THOSE CORE VALUES.
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"The opportunity in the era of divided government is to work with both sides to get something done for the country," said Representative Josh Gottheimer, Democrat from New Jersey and co-chairman of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.
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"I still think it's the best way forward to get something done and not end up empty-handed," Cornyn said after meeting with leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking Democratic member Dianne Feinstein.
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Happy people accomplish their daily goals without getting overwhelmed by making this tiny one-word change: "Every time you have to get something done, change 'I should' to 'I want'," says Roger Ziegler, a counselor and life coach.
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Trump's leading contribution to the House health care debate wound up having nothing to do with setting these kinds of overall objectives — like protecting those with preexisting conditions — but in merely bullying the contractors to just get something done.
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Graham told reporters after he left the hearing Tuesday that he still expected to get an immigration deal done and that Congress would avoid a government shutdown as well, in part due to public pressure to get something done.
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"We have a coalition of unusual suspects that have come together in this country to deal with criminal justice reform and if in fact the White House is on board, we'll be able to get something done," Jeffries said.
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More importantly, the opioid crisis is also one of the areas where there seems to be a real desire from both parties in Congress to get something done — and potentially save tens of thousands of lives in the process.
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One of the prime drivers of his desire to get something done on guns is that President Barack Obama failed to enact meaningful change into law following the 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut. 17.
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JIM CRAMER: When I went on Twitter to ask for questions for you, people – the overwhelming theme is that you are practical and you want to get something done, and that you can be the leader to do that.
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I thought earlier this year that the failure to get something done on DREAMers, which is sort of the easiest part of the equation because they were brought here by others, they didn&apost, you know, come themselves -- GIGOT: Right.
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He — or, more to the point, she — needs to convince a lot of prickly stakeholders that even if they can't all get what they want, it's better to get something done rather than fall apart in a sea of bickering.
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The whole goal there is to reduce the communication gap between employees to as close to zero as possible, and ensure that it's not just a single person that knows how to get something done that's constantly inundated with requests.
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And so, what they want to see is, look, this is my life, our healthcare is such a fundamental issue for us, we want people to talk to each other, try to get something done that's going to help everybody.
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"My hope is that we look at being thoughtful about what we're doing and not ram something through just to get something done before the year is out," Kautz said of the plan being rushed through Congress by her own party.
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If you're not familiar with the "I'm Baby" phrase, it's a popular line used in memes across the internet to be used by someone who's incapable or in need of help, or a reason for being unable to get something done.
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"I think there is real optimism that we could get something done in the next few hours," Pelosi told CNBC's Jim Cramer in a phone interview on "Squawk on the Street" as Senate Republicans and Democrats moved closer to a deal.
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"We're hopeful that the Senate can take the pause it needs to take and move forward on this issue so we can get something done," Ryan told reporters after meeting with rank-and-file Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club.
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"Liu He needs to come on Thursday next week with a deal on the table to mean that we can get something done between Trump and Xi by the end of the year," Lucier said of China's top trade negotiator.
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RELATED: Fight over Obamacare subsidies could cause government shutdown "We clearly had a very productive dialogue led by Tom MacArthur and Mark Meadows over the break and you could just sense the movement and the desire to get something done," said Rep.
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Add to that the reality that nobody CNN has spoken to in either party has any appetite for a second government shutdown, and perhaps the will to get something done, which was so pervasive late last week, will come back to the forefront.
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And even though expectations are low for Trump's tax cuts and other agenda items getting enacted soon, the market and economy will likely get a boost if Trump and Congress can get something done by early next year, says Nixon of Northern Trust.
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We've been at this four weeks already, you add that, coupled with the uncertainty for both sides to get something done, that's a big uncertainty that everybody's worried about, and the question is again, where are those hotspots that can take advantage of them?
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The "will is there on both sides" to come to an agreement, added the official, who pointed out that the upcoming runoff election in Guatemala puts additional pressure to get something done in the next few weeks before the administration enters "lame-duck" status.
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"If you look throughout the heartland, there's a silent majority who just wants normalcy, just wants to see that people are going to go out to Washington and fight for them in a civil way and get something done," said Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos.
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"If there were, on the chairman's part, a gesture to come forward with a middle ground discussion on some of these issues, we could get something done," he said, pointing to wilderness, American Indian tribes and National Park Service legislation as opportunities for collaboration.
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That's an extremely short burst of time to get something done on the go, and Microsoft is trying to improve its own apps, and others, to simplify those tasks with a design that makes it more familiar and less jarring when you switch apps.
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The iPad version of iOS also has a dock, so you can swipe up just a little in an app to bring it up, which is how you slide a second app onto the screen, or quickly pop an app over your workspace to get something done.
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Ryan dodged Friday when asked about the prospects of Mexico paying for the wall "I'm not going to get into a quibbling about whether they should or should not pay for it, because we need to get something done," Ryan said at a Politico event Friday.
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" Trump also told King that when he was asked by a reporter about his views toward the five teenage boys, he responded, "'Of course I hate these people and let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done.
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And I have found that respecting people, listening to people, working with people, creating a relationship is a far better way to try and get something done, than (to) just walk into the room and say this is what you have to do, now do it.
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Preston: You know, I was talking to a very powerful lobbyist recently, a Republican lobbyist, and just talking about health care, and this lobbyist's head was almost exploding, saying they had seven years to get something done, seven years, and they really dropped the ball on it.
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"To me, the tell-tale sign will be if either we see something next week or all the sudden they reduce the Easter break, which I think is a real possibility because I think people want to get something done if it's at all possible," he said.
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Her main takeaway was that no one should expect to shake up Congress right away— it's an institution that's been around a long time, it's set up to prevent drastic change, and it takes a long time for any individual member to actually get something done.
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The students outlined their thoughts using a multistep design process that could have been lifted straight from a start-up's business plan: blue-sky thinking (thinking outside the box), scope (the work and resources required to get something done), MVP (minimum viable product), delivery and launch.
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"I'm not going to vote for a bill that is terrible policy and horrible politics just because we have to get something done," Mr. Graham said at a news conference, calling the stripped-down bill a "disaster" and a "fraud" as a replacement for the health law.
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Senate Republicans are now working hard to pass this bill in just two weeks not because it is an elegant policy solution but because it generally satisfies their ideological standards and satisfies a short-term political imperative to get something done—to show they can govern.
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There's a lot of time to get something done and agreed to, but there's a palpable sense of concern right now that a big agreement, with clear bipartisan buy-in, that wraps everything up in a non-last second crisis manner, is slipping away, if not gone entirely.
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Until they change the tune and say we are going to deal with mental health, we are going to do something with domestic terrorism, we are going to do something with foreign terrorism, then maybe you will have a change in the culture of DC to get something done.
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I mean look, on health care, I think we have a great bill and there's still a little bit further to go because we're also dealing with the Senate, but the Senate I believe really wants to get something done because Obamacare is dead, just so we understand.
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We want to get something done and we are willing to do whatever it takes to pass a law that has real sanctions that will deter but at the same time can pass the House, pass the Senate and will be signed into law by the White House.
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While hateful political language always has been around, what generally was simultaneously present was the willingness for the same people who used such language about one another to sit down together, sometimes hidden from public view, and find a way to discuss issues, work together and get something done.
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"This is very much a my-way-or-the-highway White House, and this is a president who would rather win the argument than get something done," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, head of the American Action Forum and the top economic adviser to Obama's Republican opponent in 2900, Sen.
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In a CNN interview the day after the shooting, one student appealed directly to lawmakers to "work together, come over your politics and get something done" on new gun legislation after authorities said a former student at the school was behind the attack carried out with an assault rifle.
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But so far, it appears like top GOP leaders are following the same playbook as before: creating a sense of urgency to get something done by year's end, even if the party disagrees on fundamental aspects of the policy, and hiding that something from their own members until absolutely necessary.
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That frenzy to get something done without stopping to think about the consequences has landed the bill in trouble: On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote on the legislation after the Congressional Budget Office reported that it would leave 22 million Americans uninsured over the next 10 years.
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He warned that Britain would be put at "back of the queue" for new trade deal with the U.S. if the country voted to leave the EU. "It could be five years from now, 10 years from now before we were able to actually get something done," Obama told the BBC.
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Nancy Pelosi got there on her own, and so she knows what it takes to go out there and hustle, and this is what I saw women do this election cycle: Out-hustle their opponents, out-work their opponents, and go to Washington because they want to get something done.
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State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the US delegation is talking with North Korean officials in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) about the meeting between the two leaders, according to the AP. "I think people want to see if we can get the meeting and get something done," Trump said Saturday night.
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What they're saying: "We have a way sometimes as a party ... of getting caught, just when we've amassed the discipline and the force to get something done right away, a shiny object makes it harder for us to focus," Buttigieg said when asked about the buybacks debate among 2020 Democrats.
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Some openly questioning if midterm politics are at play, suggesting that members of the House have little motivation to get something done before Election Day, because most likely the final piece of legislation that gets negotiated will ultimately become less stringent than the version the House passed earlier this year.
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"I just have been making the point that for those of us who want to get something done, we haven't looked at some sort of skinnied-down version" of immigration reform, said Portman, a former House member and official in the George W. Bush administration who is seen as a dealmaker.
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Passing a plan through a polarized Congress, in an election year, will require "strong presidential leadership, a bipartisan effort by leaders in both parties and bringing together the broad constituency of stakeholders who will push their lawmakers to get something done," said Ed Mortimer, the chamber's executive director of transportation infrastructure.
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"If you care about who can defeat the Republicans, who can lead the top of the ticket so we can get a majority back and who, once there, has the most capacity to get something done, it's her," said Guy Cecil, the head of Priorities USA Action, a "super PAC" supporting Mrs. Clinton.
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If everyone's in one place, you can dither, handwave, vacillate, micromanage, and turn your workplace into an endless wasteland of unclear uncertainty, punctuated by ad-hoc last-second crisis meetings — and your employees will probably still conspire against your counterproduction to get something done, albeit much less than what they're capable of.
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Explains Goldstein of HireAthena's workflow software, on which the company appears to be focusing most of its time and attention: "Our software levels the amount of self-advocacy among a team of people who have to get something done together" by making it easier to follow exactly who committed to do what and when.
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As voters get to know these Frontline Members, it will only get harder for Republicans to paint the former mayors, business leaders, non-profit executives and servicemembers who joined the U.S. House of Representatives this Congress as anything other than what they are: committed, hard-working, serious individuals who actually want to get something done.
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" He answered his own question: "And I said, look, this woman was raped, mugged, and thrown off a building — thrown off a building on top of everything else ... I said, 'Of course I hate these people, and let's all hate these people, because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done.
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If this holds true, our President and those Republicans who remain in the House and Senate will have an opportunity to show the country that they're ready to do exactly what American voters -- and many Democrats in Congress -- have asked for these past two years: to reach across the aisle and get something done.
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He talks a fair amount about the dangers of an overly powerful president (Trump, yes, but an overly powerful president in the abstract, as well), the coarseness of politics, his abilities as a negotiator, and the importance of never compromising on rights, but being able to give a little on X and Y to get something done.
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There is an interesting trend in the tech world of businesses that are tackling what some would describe as "unsexy" problems: in many industries, there are too many pieces that need to work together to get something done, and this slows down not only the overall industry's growth, but how smaller players can engage and use it.
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Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibScaramucci calls on GOP to save country from Trump 'depredations' The Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation MORE (D-Mich.), a progressive freshman who's been one of the most outspoken House lawmakers calling for Trump's impeachment, said Democrats should try to get something done on infrastructure.
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Chris MurphyChristopher (Chris) Scott MurphyThe Hill's Morning Report - Dem lawmakers put guns, hate groups on fall agenda Meet the Democratic senator trying to negotiate gun control with Trump Senate Democrats warn Trump: Don't invite Putin to G-85033 MORE (D-Conn.) that the White House still wants to get something done on gun violence, including expanding background checks.
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Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota opposes a free tuition program like Warren's, but she said Monday night at her own CNN town hall that "I actually want to get something done when it comes to student loans," so she would allow people to refinance their loans to around 3% interest, less than the government has charged in recent years.
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" As the meeting came to a close, one female attendee asked whether she understood Ayers' message correctly, saying: "Are we all willing, in order to get the tax bill passed, to contact all the people we donate money to — which is a long list — and tell them the money stops coming if they don't get something done!
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If, in order to get something done between depts, an individual contributor has to talk to their manager, who talks to a director, who talks to a VP, who talks to another VP, who talks to a director, who talks to a manager, who talks to someone doing the actual work, then super dumb things will happen.
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And then when it comes to getting things done, we know that many of the reasons people go out and about in the real world is that they're trying to get something done, whether that's meet up with a friend or find a business they want to transact at or a place where they want to do a particular activity.
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That approach, as demonstrated in her AIPAC speech, was best summed up by Clinton herself in 2014, in this line from her memoir about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "I learned that Bibi would fight if he felt he was being cornered, but if you connected with him as a friend, there was a chance you could get something done together," she wrote.
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Even more explicitly, Cornyn told Bloomberg that this was all about Trump's reelection bid: "I think he needs to run on it, and those like me who think it's a pretty good idea will run on it, and when we win the election, he can claim a mandate and hopefully get something done," Cornyn, who himself is up in 2020, said.
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If I told a parent that there was a technology that would allow you to be a calmer parent, which would give you the patience sometimes to never yell at your child, it might even allow you to have some time have a little quiet or get something done at the end of the day, would you want that technology?
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" Onstage, Buttigieg said that the coming years would require a President "who can stand on the rubble of what has been busted in our society and in our politics, pick up the pieces, implement bold solutions, get something done about those issues, and "—he leaned hard on the word—"find a way to do it that's actually going to unify the American people.
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You can make a strong case that modern web development is awful, as is most of modern tool/server development, and modern app development (especially Android) is pretty messy too … and bosses / clients are always pushing devs to go faster, and the natural assumption is that if you have to cut corners to get something done, the test corner is the first to go.
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The Hawaii Democrat must have understood on some level why his GOP colleagues in the Senate were about to pass their massive tax giveaway to corporations and the uber-rich in the wee hours of Wednesday morning: President Donald Trump needed an eleventh-hour victory after a year of legislative failure, and Republican donors were explicitly threatening to halt financial contributions if lawmakers didn't get something done.
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The pressure to get something done, and quickly, is rising by the day, from farmers in the Southeast who are still grappling with large crop losses from Hurricane Michael last October, to people in Puerto Rico going hungry due to food stamp cuts, to officials in small-town Iowa and Missouri who are still bailing out from some of the worst floods in recent memory.
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Also I did find that for creatives, and actually getting work done for real—like you're trying to get something done on your own, like record a record or start a startup or a brand or something like that—I think LA is a lot easier to do that because there's a lot less distraction and more time for you to think about what you actually want to accomplish.
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His speech is coming just a week after he announced an executive order on gun control to expand background checks in an effort to curtail what he called an "epidemic of gun violence" in the US. Obama's past week was spent pitching the plan to the American people, making it clear that it was his final, if largely symbolic, effort as president to get something done about guns, despite the intractability of a Republican-controlled Congress.
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"I told the president that there's tremendous distrust in our caucuses, in our constituencies and in the public, and I mentioned a litany of things such as the Muslim ban and Charlottesville," Mr. Schumer said, referring to the president's travel ban on immigrants from six Muslim-majority nations, and to Mr. Trump's equivocal remarks about white supremacists after the violence in Charlottesville, Va. "And I said for us to get something done we need to establish some trust," Mr. Schumer added.
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"It could be five years from now, 10 years from now before we're actually able to get something done," Obama told the British broadcaster, adding to his earlier warning that Britain would find itself at 'the back of the queue' for a new trade deal with the United States if it left the EU. Obama's visit and decision to intervene in the EU debate has angered the Eurosceptic "Out" campaign, which has repeatedly argued that Britain could easily negotiate deals and get better terms outside the EU. Answering that criticism, Obama said that his involvement had been justified because of the two countries' special relationship, and that he hoped he had been able to persuade some British voters.
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