It was always pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
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Unfortunately, such societies cannot simply be conjured out of a hat.
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It's not like we're just pulling this stuff out of a hat.
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"Sam Keller did not pick Miami out of a hat," he said.
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He does everything but pull a red rabbit out of a hat.
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But you can't just pull a random question out of a hat.
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We did not pick a 15% national usury rate out of a hat.
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You can pick out of a hat 15 different reasons why people are selling.
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"Dennis doesn't like to pull a rabbit out of a hat," Mr. Glanz said.
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Literally pick a random date within the past two calendar years out of a hat.
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Virginia may not draw names out of a hat to decide a state election after all.
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We're pulling beds out of a hat and opening up old mothball sections of our hospital.
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Some of the precincts broke ties through coin tosses or drew names out of a hat.
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This is the week we'll learn whether Mitch McConnell can pull a rabbit out of a hat.
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But both Rodriguez and Moorhead were optimistic that Google could pull some rabbit out of a hat.
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But this is not an instance of ideologically motivated jurists pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
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Other possible methods include choosing names out of a hat or randomly selecting names from sealed envelopes.
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Even better, perhaps, no skill is involved: The winner's name will be chosen out of a hat.
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CN: Did that come out of a hat, or an intern, or who gave you that one?
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On the ensuing drive, the Saints pulled a rabbit out of a hat with a fake punt.
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I don't think they dropped all the amendments into a hat and picked them out of a hat.
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State officials will flip a coin or pick one of the two candidates' names out of a hat.
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Lampert found yet one more rabbit to pull out of a hat with a seemingly infinite capacity for bunnies.
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The company came up with its name after less successful attempts at picking a name out of a hat.
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Or was she simply combatting a bit of writer's block by picking characters and adjectives out of a hat?
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If it shows no traces of cocaine or crystal meth, he gets to pull chips out of a hat.
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In one precinct, a three-way tie was apparently resolved when voters picked a name out of a hat.
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Pick a decade out of a hat, and you're likely to find a more agreeable one than the 22019s.
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Racecar driving is that thing of drinking water out of a hat during a police chase in a funnel.
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And you don't want to have yourself in a position where you have to pick somebody out of a hat.
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They might be asked to role-play, picking a character out of a hat and leading an auction in character.
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Is that a number pulled out of a hat or do you think it's realistic, and if so by when?
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"There's witchcraft, ouija boards, and cheesy children's birthday party magic, like pulling a rabbit out of a hat," he says.
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And for heaven's sake, we can't control the weather any more than we can pull a rabbit out of a hat.
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New York (CNN Business)If Sears wants to avoid bankruptcy, it'll practically have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
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The woman's hands gesture as if she were performing the age-old trick of pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
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And what did it say about his own presidency that he felt the need to pull this rabbit out of a hat?
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"I think you're going to lose on all these patent claims unless you pull a rabbit out of a hat," Alsup said.
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Just put a kid in a chair, put on a blindfold, and let him pick out of a hat whatever was submitted?
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He gamed the internet, and in some perverse way, it's awe-inspiring, like watching someone pull a rabbit out of a hat.
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I borrowed some of my sister's clothes, and spent a whole weekend making a wig out of a hat and some yarn.
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At the Iowa caucuses, they would flip a coin; for a three-way tie, they drew a name out of a hat.
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But Apple's flagship product, the iPhone, is now slowing down, putting pressure on the company to pull something new out of a hat.
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"You don't want to have yourself in a position where you have to pick somebody out of a hat" in Cleveland, the governor said.
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A small number of those delegates are going to be won through card draws, coin flips, and pulling a name out of a hat.
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When Mr. Taylor danced for Cunningham, he said he became disgruntled when Cunningham asked his dancers to choose an object out of a hat.
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"We just didn't pick your name out of a hat," said LAPD detective Paul Coulter after Franklin denied knowing 25-year-old victim Janecia Peters.
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First, it ends the visa lottery where the U.S. randomly hands out 28503,22019 green cards a year by arbitrarily pulling names out of a hat.
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In some states, Virginia among them, ties are settled with a game of chance -- drawing straws or a name out of a hat, for example.
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And so, with the Yankees preparing for two more games against the expansion Toronto Blue Jays, Martin once again drew names out of a hat.
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Petraeus is an incredible patriot, and helped guide our country during a very difficult time in Iraq and basically pulled a rabbit out of a hat there.
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It uses mathematical formulas that, while tried and trusted, were essentially pulled out of a hat by the pioneers of the theory in the early 20th century.
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The room-obsessed ladies' designs are foiled by a Bethenny Frankel decreed lottery, where everyone must choose a number between one through seven out of a hat.
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"It's not just numbers out of a hat," said Gary Barnett, the president and founder of Extell Development, which built One57, about how he arrives at prices.
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Pick one of the random 435 members of the House out of a hat, have them do TV several times a week, and you'll see much worse.
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Drawing ping-pong balls out of a hat—a method Wyoming used in 1994 to pick a state legislator after a tie vote—would be more suitable.
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Former NBA player Yao Ming was in the audience at the media conference, which featured an interpretive dancer and a magician pulling a bird out of a hat.
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And it will have held a fair nominating contest if the delegates pull a name out of a hat to break the deadlock on the forty-second round.
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JPMorgan likened the acquisition to pulling a "rabbit out of a hat", while several analysts pointed to strong growth prospects with Quadrant's Dorado oil find off Western Australia.
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And that launch date wasn't picked out of a hat: As the beauty pro shared on Instagram, it's actually 10 years to the day that the two first met.
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If Labour manages to pull a rabbit out of a hat and take the majority, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch expected the pound would initially suffer a "steep" fall.
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Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter: There are almost innumerable action sequences in Aquaman, as if pulled out of a hat on cue to sate the appetites of the gathered masses.
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Even in its second season, its best and most consistent, it could occasionally feel as if it were being written by pulling improv comedy game ideas out of a hat.
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This time, Chris Gethard, Chanel Ali, Katie Hannigan and Joe Pera, who's got a new show on Adult Swim, will be the ones picking their hells out of a hat.
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Now, this isn't the type of magic outlined by pick-up artists or pulling a rabbit out of a hat so you can get into the pants of your hot neighbor.
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Even if Jussie speaks to police, unless he pulls a rabbit out of a hat and convinces them the "attack" was real, the case is still going to the grand jury.
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The potential couple meets onstage for the first time and picks a location out of a hat, after which improvisers jump in on the action and bring the scene to life.
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The 93-year-old would like to pull another rabbit out of a hat — just not a killer rabbit — and enter into a productive partnership with Donald Trump over North Korea.
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I hoped for a while that I might coax my puzzle into pulling a rabbit out of a hat, but I could think of no reasonable way to make that work.
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The store collected names from farmers interested in the equipment and pulls a name out of a hat when a harvester becomes available, to ensure they are fair to their local customers.
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To pick an example out of a hat, one popular recent parenting book is called How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.
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Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify "What work is taking your name out of a hat wherever I find it, going to your LinkedIn page, and finding a few facts about you," Risher said.
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For more than 90 years, the junior and senior boys at Aquin High School have lined up in the school library to draw the name of their prom date out of a hat.
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" A government spokesman, Benjamin Griveaux, responded in a broadcast on Sunday that "zero risk doesn't exist" and that "those who say pulling responses out of a hat will solve the problem are lying.
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I'm not talking about the flashy, pull a rabbit out of a hat kind of magic, but more like the DIY card trick with intricately-planned secrets only the dealer is privy to.
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The magic trick of pulling some new innovation out of a hat isn't necessarily nefarious, but it is a trick—and understanding why a billionaire inventor is trying to distract you is always worthwhile.
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There is "no rhyme or reason" to the dismissals, and he said he and other officers are scratching their heads because the firings seem random, as if names were picked out of a hat.
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The idea of doing something whimsical, like pulling his batting order out of a hat — as some managers occasionally do when their hitters are mired in a funk — did not appeal to his sensibilities.
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We don't pick a name out of a hat and decide that today we're going to make contact with a certain person and transform the situation completely upside down where ultimately it ends with somebody dying.
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As it progresses, the film reveals complications (it plays particularly dubious tricks with the way it parcels out flashbacks to the 1940s) and a motive that might as well have been picked out of a hat.
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I'm not blaming AccuWeather for wanting to provide folks with long-term data, and it's possible that these 90-day forecasts are somewhat better than what I'd come up with drawing random forecasts out of a hat.
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According to the Charlotte Observer, a voter named Jesse McCall helped seal Tillis' future by pulling his opponent's name out of a hat, thus relegating Tillis to a two-year term instead of a four-year term.
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Clearly no one can force another person to go to prom against their will, but the idea of a prom lottery where men choose women out of a hat completely erases these girls' power to make decisions.
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After the attack near the Paris Opera in May, a government spokesman, Benjamin Griveaux, said that "zero risk doesn't exist" and that "those who say pulling responses out of a hat will solve the problem are lying."
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A vocal style that pulls emotions out of a hat and inhabits them in an exaggerated representational performance is a vocal style that must be calculated to the extreme if the approach is to succeed at all.
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Pasquale Jones Robert Bohr, the chef Ryan Hardy and their new partner, Grant Reynolds, say they pulled the name out of a hat — unlike Charlie Bird, the name of Mr. Bohr and Mr. Hardy's restaurant in Greenwich Village.
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Mr. Bell had pulled a number out of a hat at the Art Students League that assigned him a spot near West 68th Street, right beneath a strip of apartment buildings on Riverside Boulevard bearing the name Trump.
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For every bartender grinning with pleasure, two regular drinkers are likely reacting as a friend did on Facebook: "I'm convinced that you made up like half those names by drawing random words out of a hat," he complained.
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"We are still counting on the U.N. attempt to pull a rabbit out of a hat," UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash told reporters in Dubai, warning the Houthis that their days in Hodeidah "are numbered".
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This is mostly a propaganda point, but it does reflect Putin's fear — one characteristic of people raised in the Soviet era — that the Americans have an almost magical ability to pull technological rabbits out of a hat at will.
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CS: Yeah, I want to hear more about your conversation with Evan Spiegel, but they're having a really rough time and I think now the question is, do they have a rabbit they can pull out of a hat?
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"Nobody had realized how big this was going to be until I got on stage and drew the first player out of a hat and saw prices ranging between $400,000 and $1.7 million for six-week contracts," he said.
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More and more, particularly in this decade, the WHCA had become lazy in its speaker selections, seemingly picking any name out of a hat of comedians who appeared on Comedy Central: Cecily Strong, Larry Wilmore, Hasan Minhaj, Michelle Wolf.
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Donald Trump won the election by 77,000 votes... We saw in [the Virginia House of Delegates election], Democrats and Republicans were tied and they had to pull the results out of a hat... You cannot say your vote doesn't count.
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They couldn't score runs; they were tight and they were struggling, and that's when Martin decided he would loosen things up in the most random way possible: he would once again draw the next day's lineup out of a hat.
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Mr Cox holds the speakership because Republicans won a 51-49 majority in the lower House after the state's board of elections drew a name out of a hat in a district where the Democratic and Republican candidates received exactly the same number of votes.
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" Rowling arrived at this narrative choice by writing "...a list of the ways in which people can be chosen: eeny meeny miny mo, short straws, chosen by team captains, names out of a hat — names out of a talking hat — putting on a hat — the Sorting Hat.
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I sat in the audience in this hoodie, nobody knew it was me 🙂 then the woman on the mic asked for a volunteer to pick a name out of a hat that would get a special meet and greet with "Ansel" and I raised my hand.
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In a post shared on his Instagram, the actor — sitting in the back of the theater wearing a bright colored hoodie — raised his hand when a woman asked for a volunteer to pick a name out of a hat for an opportunity to meet with the actor.
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On my existing V1 Everyday, chasing down the company-issue 13″ MacBook Pro in that cavernous pocket was always a bit like diving deep to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but here it's really easy and far less likely to give your fingers rug burn.
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But in 7073, a year where the news outweirds itself on a daily basis and events feel plucked from a randomizer that's pulling ideas out of a hat, our current status is equally plausible: Untitled Goose Game is not just a funny game but an excellent one.
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You can do your best to plan out the minutiae of a day, never anticipating that you'll overhear a surgeon's conversation about cauterizing brains, or see a subway magician pull a live rabbit out of a hat, or unwittingly find yourself in the midst of a stranger's marriage proposal.
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Unlike modern-day illusionist David Blaine's remarkable ability to spend 44 days dangling 30 feet in the air in a transparent Plexiglas case over London's River Thames without eating, pulling a rabbit out of a hat is the kind of magic trick anyone can learn, provided they've got a hat, a rabbit, and a knack for sleight of hand.
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President Trump, if Moon fails to pull a rabbit out of a hat and get you and Kim to meet face to face, he will look played by Kim and/or abandoned by you, either of which will mean a blow to his political standing and make a US military strike on the Korean peninsula look more likely.
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I'm all for TV networks experimenting with their election coverage — goodness knows 24-hour news channels could use a shakeup — but drawing names out of a hat (while making sure to use multiple camera angles to prove there's no duplicity going on) will never make for riveting TV, no matter how much you try to puff it up with dramatic music.
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Once again, Martin's out-of-a-hat logic had jump-started a team in desperate need of momentum, and while nothing about it jived with baseball wisdom of the time—let alone our sabremetrically informed, lineup-optimizing modern understanding of the sport—it served as a reminder that the game is played by people, and people are weirdly and wonderfully unpredictable.
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There are other numbers in the poll -- 55% have an unfavorable view of the GOP healthcare law compared to 31% who view it favorably, 75% think the legislation makes good on either none or only some of President Trump's promises -- that suggest the AHCA, unless the Senate can pull a rabbit out of a hat, could be a major anchor weighing down Republicans in 2018.
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She lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, with her husband, Jon Lott, 41, assistant professor of Architecture and director of the Master in Architecture I Program at Harvard University; their son, August, 2; Mr. Lott's son, Mason, 18; and their pet bunny, Mies (as in van der Rohe), a gift Mr. Lott pulled out of a hat and presented to Ms. Al-Hadid several years ago.
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"At one point in time it was suggested that we were going to have to pull a rabbit out of a hat in order to get this bill back on the floor," Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chair Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska) said.
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