" Pompeo responded: "Sir, don't make this a political football.
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It isn't just about some game of political football here.
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The answer to this question is a perennial political football.
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Religious freedom is a fundamental right, not a political football.
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And so, even the coronavirus has become a political football.
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I am tired of medical treatment being a political football.
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They want to stop using these innocents as a political football.
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Google and YouTube are needlessly making their platforms a political football.
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Amazon could run things better but oh wait, that's a political football.
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To watch his death transformed into a political football must be excruciating.
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Washington (CNN)Family separations at the border have become a political football.
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In fact, it shows what a political football net neutrality has become.
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Even the military budget has now become more of a political football.
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The Board's use of public employees as a political football is inhumane.
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In the blink of an eye, Kavanaugh became a political football again.
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"The project has been a political football for some time," he said.
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" Other critics were accused of turning complaints about water into a "political football.
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A political football Obamacare, however, is also about more than just health insurance.
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"Defense is too important to use as a political football," he said. Rep.
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"It is still a political football, gun control, on Capitol Hill," said Tighe.
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The global market was not prepared to be part of the political football.
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Krieg: So you're saying this has always been a kind of political football?
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He is seeking to turn the special counsel into just another political football.
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Still, Pruitt laments the "political football" that he says his agency has become.
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Stop making this a political football and work with us to fix it.
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The term "Muslim ban" has been a political football for more than a year.
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Missile defense is political football that poses no real threat to Russia's nuclear arsenal.
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It also became a political football, as the proposal coincided with the GOP primaries.
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"Our choice of clothing and religious expression is not your political football," she wrote.
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This time, the young Charlie Brown might kick that political football out of sight.
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But because the specifics affect life and death, healthcare shouldn't be a political football.
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But Citigroup North American economist Dana Peterson said energy could become a political football.
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Funding to combat the Zika virus has been a political football since Congress returned Tuesday.
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That target has become a major political football in Germany, where Trump is deeply unpopular.
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"It's been an absolute political football pretty much since the day it launched," Schulz said.
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Our intelligence community has become a political football, and that's something that should never occur.
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As with all agreements, the North American Free Trade Agreement has become a political football.
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The opioid crisis and Appalachian coal county itself has been turned into a political football.
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And any loss can become a political football, providing fodder for critics of bond-buying.
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They know that health care is more than a political football -- it's a personal issue.
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To see our grief used as a political football to score legislative points is disgusting.
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"You have turned it into a political football," Mr. Siddique responded, and withdrew the offer.
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Area is a 'political football' Rukban's humanitarian crisis is deeply entwined in Syria's fraught geopolitics.
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That's why it's been so weird to see Last Man Standing become a political football.
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A refusal to turn anti-Semitism into a political football applies to your own camp too.
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"The problem is (Comey) created this situation where the FBI is a political football," he said.
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Obamacare is, in Washington, a political football — something Republicans have spent seven years promising to repeal.
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"Using mental illness as a political football in the aftermath of tragedies — it hurts," says Honberg.
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Mueller would rather have taken a bullet than allow his report to become a political football.
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"Seth's death has been turned into a political football," Rich's parents wrote at the Washington Post.
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Weinstein's history as a top fundraiser in the Democratic Party became a political football in Washington.
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Video The lengthy file immediately became a political football, with both sides claiming vindication of their position.
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"Air France-KLM risks becoming a political football between two governments," Liberum analysts said in a note.
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"This is too important of an issue for us to turn into a political football," Yates said.
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But the commission, which has been a political football since its creation, is perennially understaffed and underfunded.
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The manteros say they are being used as a political football, and have pointed to police excesses.
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The border is sometimes treated like a political football, but it's also home to millions of people.
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Meanwhile, Villavicencio's possible deportation has turned into a political football ahead of the upcoming state primary, with Gov.
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" California AG Xavier Becerra said, "The Trump Administration is playing political football with millions of Americans' health care.
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However, due to the fractured state of our politics, this issue has already turned into a political football.
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That is the agency that provided the Foxconn funding, which has become a political football in Wisconsin politics.
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"Until that is changed, you will continue to see the CFPB made into a political football," Hunt said.
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Now, after decades, charter schools have become more political football than a clear solution to an ongoing problem.
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The most serious public health crisis in decades was bound to turn into a political football at some point.
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He said the inquiry would not be putting "capitalism on trial", nor should banks be used as "political football".
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Deficit spending has been a political football kicked by conservative free marketers and lauded by liberal Keynesians for decades.
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And he expressed bitter disappointment that the president's words would be used as a political football by Rep. Wilson.
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JUST PHILOSOPHICALLY, THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE, AND IN A WAY IT'S A POLITICAL FOOTBALL IN THE WAY THAT IT'S CHARACTERIZED.
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TV's "What America's Thinking" that the term "socialism" will make for "good political football" during the 6900 presidential campaign.
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The truth is that Strzok was already a political football before the news of his firing broke on Monday.
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Some liberal environmental organizations still see climate change as just another political football, a hypocritical attitude we cannot afford.
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And while Kentucky politicians use the clinic as a political football, women's health and safety hangs in the balance.
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In claiming to stand outside politics, Mr. Comey has instead created the hottest political football of the 2016 election.
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"It's really important to see the real people instead of the political football that they have become," he said.
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But Brexit turned the Bank into a political football, which seemed to scare off Mr Rajan and possibly others.
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I mean, it's just unfortunate that this has become, as you say, an ugly, political football in the campaigning.
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It's also a sign of how much of a political football climate change has become between the two parties.
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This is a philanthropy that does life-changing work, which Republicans have tried to turn into a political football.
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Several others who said they knew Tibbetts also tweeted their opposition to the case being used as a political football.
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The regulation has been something of a political football, instituted by Republican administrations and rescinded by Democratic ones since 1984.
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"Right now our bodies and our health have become a political football" tossed around by mostly male politicians, Warren says.
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He added that Pemex's status as a "political football" adds to market doubts over the company's investment plans going forward.
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Human life is too valuable to treat as a political football when a small, racist president doesn't get his way.
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We need a bipartisan reform of the Affordable Care Act that can transform a political football into a major solution.
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Guimaraes is generally pessimistic about a DACA replacement, figuring the two parties will use the issue as a political football.
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Every day on which Senate Republicans turn Obama's nomination ability into a political football, they erode that trust and faith.
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There's no question the high court has become more and more of a political football over the past 20 years.
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The conversation to be had must be held with humanity and conscience, not used as a political football for votes.
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The manteros say they are being used as a political football, and local merchants are put off by the competition.
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As a result, the nuclear deal remains the fulcrum of the relationship with Iran — and a political football in Washington.
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Given the life and death consequences the proposed cuts to foreign aid, this funding must not become political football today.
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They also hope to block deep, debilitating cuts and avoid being used as a political football during the budgeting process.
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It has done good work, but has unusual powers, has at times been heavy handed and has become a political football.
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The investigation into Russian meddling has become a political football, with Democrats using allegations of collusion to discredit Trump's extraordinary win.
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A second source said the decision was expected this month, but it could become a political football ahead of the Sept.
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Immigration is simply too important of an issue for too many people to simply be treated as just another political football.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama toured flood-ravaged Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Tuesday, surveying wreckage that has also become a political football.
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Technology would improve as a result of a reliable financing structure that can't become a political football during perennial budget battles.
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"We're trapped in this game of political football, between Iraq and the Kurds," said a Yazidi resident of Sinjar, Kamal Ali.
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"This is the first time that a president has openly used the courts as a kind of political football," Ross said.
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It has become a political football after the Department of Justice indicated that it might block the deal or impose penal conditions.
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Making China trade a big political football during an election year is also tempting as Trump seeks to discredit his Democratic opponents.
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It's also a tricky time for the Fed, which could also easily find itself a political football during a contentious election year.
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The other, which he will also hold for life, is political football, to be used whenever members of either party see fit.
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Unfortunately, since the financial crisis, the foreclosure issue has also become a political football used to bully banks and advance partisan agendas.
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"People are trying to make a political football out of dealing with a pandemic disease," he said, referring to the coronavirus outbreak.
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But the speed and aggression by which both parties have transformed Dr. Blasey's #MeToo story into a political football has been striking.
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Abortion should be treated like the normal medical care it is, advocates say, not separated out and turned into a political football.
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"The failure of global legislators to find solutions to climate change should be a problem for everyone not a political football," Bell said.
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If the Lifeline program is to be sustainable, it must enjoy broad bipartisan public support, and not be turned into a political football.
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We've got to get away from this idea that our country is political football and someone with a different opinion is the enemy.
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Schumer on Monday blamed Trump for turning Republicans against the disaster relief package by turning aid for Puerto Rico into a political football.
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"From the start, I have said I will not allow women's reproductive freedoms to be a political football," Murray said on the floor.
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And — of course, this is 2018 — some was the doing of Mr. Trump, who can make a political football of anything (including football).
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The case became a political football, as incumbent Punjabi government officials scrambled to respond to the public's outrage, pointing fingers at each other.
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He is using this, probably some of the worst moments in this woman's life, as a political football to try and score points.
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In short order, Washington has turned the intelligence community into a political football that will have far-reaching consequences for years to come.
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As Chuck Reed of the Retirement Security Initiative points out, it's right to want to keep public pensions from being a political football.
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Paul Yumbla, a middle school reading teacher in Denver, said it upsets him to watch politicians in Washington treat DACA like a political football.
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I understand the question of global warming has -- unfortunately -- become a political football, so approaching that issue head-on may not be particularly revealing.
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Iran is unlikely to host matches, but the mere possibility has turned its ban on women in stadiums into a political football at home.
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Baby Nichole, who Emily brought to Canada, has become a political football, as Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) demands the return of the "kidnapped" child.
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LONDON — It didn't take long for British politicians to turn the twin attacks in Brussels in which 34 people died into a political football.
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The trafficking accusations immediately turned into a political football in the May election, where the front-runners harbor deep criticisms of the peace deal.
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The February report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics covered the first complete month of Donald Trump's presidency, making it a political football.
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It's particularly disappointing to some parents in a city that has become a political football nationwide in debates about gun violence, race and crime.
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Using health care as some sort of political football to divide the country is not going to help patients, working on commonsense compromises will.
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If we do this, candidates will know the rules in advance—as it is, with the murky rules, disclosure has become a political football.
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The deal wasn't even signed back in October 2016 when Mr. Trump turned it into a political football a few weeks before the election.
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However, the worst outcome would be allowing this bill that affects the health and lives of millions of Americans to become a political football.
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"Life-saving global health funding should not be a political football," said Ann Starrs, head of the Guttmacher Institute, a leading reproductive rights group.
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There's no desire in any party to actually act on this issue, only to use it as a political football and score points against opponents.
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Stewart excoriated members of the House Judiciary Committee for using the bill as a political football in appropriations debates and failing to fund it indefinitely.
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During one GOP debate late last year, one Muslim said the election is like watching political football -- and American Muslims aren't playing for either team.
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I can even imagine how average American citizens could support this policy when the issue of immigration is thrown around as an abstract political football.
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The FBI is better than that, should not be used as a political football, and thousands of agents who work for the bureau deserve more.
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Underscoring the political tensions, Cruz questioned if Democrats would block legislation so they could use the issue as a political football for November's midterm elections.
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During the confirmation hearings, Republicans accused Feinstein of using Ford as a political football and of leaking the letter to the press, something she's denied.
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The deadly incident has become a political football in Washington amid criticism of Trump's handling of condolence messages to the families of the dead soldiers.
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But as time as gone on, I think there's been a lot more coverage of what the political-football term of a 'shutdown' actually means.
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But over the last few days, the question of how best to solve the crisis has become a familiar game of political football featuring Gov.
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And it is now likely to become a political football over the next year, with both Republicans and Democrats eager to tear into the company.
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Our nation's air traffic control system should not be treated like a political football that is subjected to turf battles and the annual budgeting process.
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I do not like the current situation where intelligence has become a political football subject to a great amount of speculation without a foundation in fact.
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" He added: "We've got to get away from this idea that our country is a political football, and someone with a different opinion is the enemy.
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With numbers like that, it is not surprising that the issue has been something of a political football in Trenton, Albany and Washington in recent years.
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This raises the concern that higher ed—until recently one of the few policy areas not mired in hyper-partisanship—will become just another political football.
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But the fact remains that getting to a resolution has meant that a program that was once a gem of bipartisanship has become a political football.
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But his report is almost certain to become a political football in the fight over the department's conduct in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
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PBS has been a political football for years, and with Donald Trump in the White House, it's only gotten more complicated for the public broadcasting channel.
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In that respect, TikTok finds itself in much the same position as another company with ties to China and that has become a political football: Huawei.
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I'm going to work closely to find answers to the challenges we have," adding, "It must be addressed and shouldn't be used as a political football.
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If we allow the census to be politicized and treat it like a political football, we could throw away the goodwill it has built for generations.
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Almost everybody tries to turn everything into a political football with him, because they think they can, you know, steer him because he is a character.
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That means a few things: He's dedicated to his mission, he's loyal to his commander, and -- perhaps most important -- he's not used to being a political football.
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Ryabkov said he regretted that U.S.-Russia ties, already strained by differences over everything from Syria to Ukraine, had become a political football in the United States.
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Years of political football and misaligned incentives have taken ideas initially meant to serve the American taxpayer and warped them into unnavigable mazes of kickbacks and bureaucracy.
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"Tulsi is focused on building bipartisan solutions that can actually be passed into law, rather than using the issue as a partisan political football," her website explains.
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PPG's swoop on Akzo caused fury among the Dutch political establishment who turned its takeover plan into a political football to be used in the election debate.
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While the debt ceiling had been a political football for both parties for decades, leaders were always careful not to push too far, to flirt with default.
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As a dissident, he's become a political football; the Chinese government seeks to extradite him, while some in the American government hope to use him as leverage.
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"I think it's a shame that a movie like this would be used as a political football," he said of "13 Hours," according to The Daily Beast.
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In the competitive democracy Mongolia has become since freeing itself from Soviet domination in 22023, it was also inevitable that Oyu Tolgoi would become a political football.
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The NBN, long a political football in Australia, was an initiative formed by the previous Labor government, which promised super speedy internet via fibre-to-the-premises technology.
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It went on to accuse the Kirchners of using human rights as a political football and called for an end to the "vengeance" espoused by the previous administrations.
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The budget resolution, which had once again become a political football amid threats of a government shutdown, includes an additional $25 billion in funding for the Defense Department.
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We can't even agree on how much to talk about race relations, as the discussion itself becomes a political football for the two major parties in this country.
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But because Allen's Trump support has now become conflated with the show's cancellation, Last Man Standing has become a strange political football, and it can't really sustain that.
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But the significance of the deal goes way beyond the mere provision of emergency power, and it is likely to become a political football in Australia's wider energy debate.
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The Democrats' report comes at a time when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which Trump signed into law in December, has become a political football in the Nov.
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The concept of universal healthcare is a political football in America, where citizens receive health coverage through a variety of insurance plans, federal Medicare, or, often, not at all.
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"I think we can all understand in an election year they're going to try to turn this into political football and try to make the Republicans look bad," Sen.
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In a series of tweets, Biden called on Congress to reauthorize the act rather than play "political football" with funding for the National Domestic Violence Hotline and other provisions.
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Instead of enacting the current plan, which will be invisible to practically every person on the internet, reasserting U.S. government authority will make the internet an international political football.
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"The Modi government is treating the issue more as a political football than a matter of justice to Muslim women," Mr. Surjewala was quoted as saying by Indian media.
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But the Trump administration and their Republican water-carriers have turned it into a partisan political football by insisting on including a question about citizenship on the census forms.
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But that likely won't stop the administration from using Tibbetts's death as a political football in the months to come, especially as the country gears up for midterm elections.
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Ryan's comments about Trump quickly became a political football, with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign highlighting the speaker as part of a "growing list of conservatives rebuking Trump" in an email.
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And to transform one of their key concerns into a political football whose only purpose is to score a few cheap points on an opponent seems.. like a flawed strategy.
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The director job goes to L. Patrick Gray (Martin Csokas of "Into the Badlands"), who, faced with the political football that is the Watergate break-in, appears eager to punt.
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And by comparing them, you create a dangerously false idea: That the coronavirus is nothing more than the latest political football to be batted about by the two political parties.
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But a poorly managed implementation could create a greedy wholesale monopolist, or turn wireless access into a political football, as is the disastrous fate of Australia's open access fiber network.
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" The president voiced optimism that the deal could still pass during the lame-duck session of Congress after the election, when the deal won't be used as "a political football.
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We, as a society, never really dealt with those facts because almost instantly Monica Lewinsky the person -- a 22-year-old INTERN -- disappeared, and Monica Lewinsky the political football appeared.
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Frankly, more and more American Muslims are not willing to alter their identity to gain the half-hearted advocacy of any group that merely sees them as a political football.
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What's even more interesting ... you would think Tebow might be excited Vice President Pence is coming to the game -- they're both super religious, but Tebow handles this political football gingerly.
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Economists Sharply Split Over Trade Deal Effects | It may be a political football for presidential candidates, but the liveliest debate recently about the Trans-Pacific Partnership is among blue-ribbon economists.
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"Crime statistics have been used as a political football since they were tracked, and this year is no different," says Adam Gelb at The Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit organisation.
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"This issue has been a political football for more than a decade," Tim McKone, AT&T's vice president of federal relations, wrote in a blog post praising Walden for the move.
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"[The CFPB] has been a real political football since its inception, and it will likely look and operate quite differently once Cordray leaves," said Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst for CreditCards.com.
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To make matters worse, it was also the host, at Sevastopol, of the Russian Black Sea fleet, whose long-term lease, during times of tension, tended to become a political football.
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The language in the deal leaves a lot of room for argument, it&aposs not hard to leave and, the enforcement mechanism turns every dispute into a game of political football.
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"I stand firmly behind the people of Sports Direct, who through no fault of their own have been made a political football by MPs and unions," he said in a statement.
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While the Steele dossier has turned into a political football -- and the most salacious parts of it have never been confirmed -- it remains one of the seminal documents of this investigation.
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Established in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, the global gag rule has since become a political football that has been repeatedly rescinded and revived depending on which party controls the White House.
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"As governor, Bullock has stopped every single effort to restrict reproductive health care, and made Title X funding permanent so it would no longer be a political football," a campaign spokesperson said.
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The FBI has become a "political football" after FBI Director James Comey told Congress the bureau was investigating new emails related to Hillary Clinton, a former Department of Justice official said Monday.
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That turns social media into a political football — if Russian disinformation on Facebook and Twitter swayed voters against Democrats in 2016, who's to stop Republicans from saying bias hurt them in 2018?
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While Title X has been somewhat of a political football over the years, with Republican and Democratic presidents making changes to the program after taking office, observers say these delays are unprecedented.
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Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha said Monday that Republicans are turning the immigration debate into "political football" instead of working with Democrats to stem the influx of migrants at the U.S. southern border.
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He said he considered it important that the hacking did not create a political football, noting that at the time Donald Trump was frequently calling into question the integrity of the election.
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But it&aposs difficult to see a path forward for the social network that doesn&apost turn it into a political football, when even staying "neutral" is perceived as choosing a side.
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It's disappointing, is it not, that this has become a bit of a political football, in Italy, with extremist comments about the growing number of migrants that are arriving on Italian shores.
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That will surely lead to the strengthening of the voices of those they used as a political football last night in order to protect the image of a man with a controversial past.
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And if Ngo challenged everyone for whom these crimes are a political football to be more rigorous in applying unsettled facts to their conclusions about the country, he might be doing a service.
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Mergers are central to media companies' strategies for competing with tech giants like Google and Netflix, but the merger review process has suddenly become a political football between President Trump and congressional Democrats.
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I was talking to someone who works for a social media company the other day, and that person mentioned concerns that companies turn into a political football — some Democrats blame Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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But after Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of the dollar to gold — and especially after Ronald Reagan's tax cuts created an unprecedented peacetime deficit — the debt ceiling became a somewhat silly political football.
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The extension has long been a political football—the pipeline was blocked by the Senate in 2014; a bill approving the pipeline's construction passed Congress in 2015 but was vetoed by President Obama.
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A study published earlier this year by three former senior WTO officials, Patrick Low, Hamid Mamdouh and Evan Rogerson, said that S&D had become a political football and a new balance was needed.
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"The camp's presence makes the entire area another political football in that turning it over to Russia and Damascus is something else the US don't want to do, at least for free," says Hauer.
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Because in 28, ABC canceled the show after its sixth season, and it became a political football all the same, after many suspected the show had been canceled due to Allen's support for Trump.
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We got a glimpse of the cages kids are being kept in, read heart-wrenching stories of families being separated, and watched the Trump camp try to toss the political football of culpability to others.
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Tony Murphy, national officer for the rail industry Unite, an influential union group in Britain and Ireland, accused the U.K. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling of viewing the railways in the country as a "political football".
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"Hopefully this is the beginning of seeing real movement, real management of an issue that I think no longer can sit and be used as a political football, one that must be addressed," he said.
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Because the vast, vast majority of blue collar manufacturing jobs—those mythical jobs that have become a favorite fantasy of Trump conservatives and a political football for plenty others—well, they are not coming back.
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"And hopefully, after the election is over and the dust settled, there will be more attention to the actual facts behind the deal, and it won't just be a political symbol or a political football."
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But after Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of the dollar to gold — and especially after Ronald Reagan's tax cuts blew up an unprecedented peacetime deficit — the debt ceiling became a kind of silly political football.
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But the accusations of wrongdoing by ZTE — a previously little-known manufacturer that became an unlikely political football, then an even unlikelier object of sympathy for President Trump — speak to a broader issue for China.
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"The pain and anguish that comes from seeing your murdered son's life and legacy treated as a mere political football is beyond comprehension," Joel and Mary Rich said in a statement provided to The Hill.
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This follows a commitment made at the EU leaders' summit in March to end the tampon tax row that had become a political football for Britons campaigning to leave the EU in a June referendum.
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"It is not difficult to see how the Repeal Bill could become a political football," Watts told CNBC, mentioning the issue of powers to devolved parliaments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as an example.
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While the Export-Import Bank of the United States remains a political football, small companies that do business overseas got a hopeful signal from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Friday when it comes to financing international deals.
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"One way to make clear that Ukraine is not a political football is for a bipartisan group of senators on opposite sides of the impeachment vote to go see Zelenky and to convey support," Murphy said.
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" Michael Chertoff, the former secretary of Homeland Security and co-chair of the new organization, said the issue of interference is "bipartisan and transatlantic in nature," and in the U.S. it has become a "political football.
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Where Kelly veered off the track, to my mind, is when he sought to scold Wilson -- and the culture more broadly -- for turning the sacred service of a member of the military into a political football.
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Call me a cynic, but it seems to me that the only reason for not fixing DACA — and reform our immigration process overall — is because it's a handy political football to kick around come election time.
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If Democrats won't support a proposal like this, they will reveal their true colors in showing that they don't actually care about DACA, but are rather exploiting its recipients as a political football for fundraising purposes.
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On the one hand, the network was never a political football in the 2016 presidential election in the way it was in 22014, when Republican candidate Mitt Romney proposed defunding the US's only public television broadcaster.
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Unfortunately, as a result, net neutrality has become a political football on Capitol Hill, with most Democrats supporting the current rules, and most Republicans opposing them as an attempt by the federal government to "control" the internet.
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And as he renews his push for national office in upcoming elections, he may well find Alitalia continues to haunt the country's corridors of power - an unwelcome political football that has been repeatedly kicked down the runway.
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"Hopefully after the election is over and the dust settles there will be more attention to the actual facts behind the deal and it won't just be be a political symbol or a political football," Obama said.
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"The pain and anguish that comes from seeing your murdered son's life and legacy treated as a mere political football is beyond comprehension," Joel and Mary Rich said in a statement provided to The Hill in March.
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By putting judgement and enforcement in the hands of the two countries instead of a third party (like the WTO), Trump has ensured that every single dispute is a game of political football between the two nations.
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What's difficult about getting to the bottom of what McCabe really said -- and what the FISA warrants really looked like -- beyond the two facts above is that the entire Nunes memo has transformed into a political football.
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Instead of treating these programs like a political football, lawmakers should on both sides of the aisle should agree that this defense expenditure is a long-term investment in the safety and security of the U.S. homeland.
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Referred to by critics as the "global gag rule", the policy has been subjected to a game of political football over the years, with Democratic presidents rescinding the policy once in office and Republican presidents then reinstating it.
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If Mueller is undermined and bounced around like a political football on television, and Congress appears dysfunctional and unwilling to address these critical problems, foreign actors will feel emboldened and ramp up their attacks for the 85033 election.
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The subway has long been a political football in part because of the unusual nature of its governance — even though it serves the city, it is controlled by the state, a fact that many riders do not realize.
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"[The Department of Environmental Quality and Department of Community Health] feel that some are taking the very sensitive issue of children's exposure to lead and trying to turn it into a political football" by claiming the state is responsible.
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"We are appalled, but not surprised, that President Trump has once again demonstrated dishonesty, hypocrisy, and willingness to use anti-Semitism and Israel as a political football," said Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America.
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It was about La David Johnson, one of the four US soldiers recently killed in Niger, whose death became a political football when Donald Trump opened a totally unnecessary can of worms about phone calls to gold star families.
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Anzalone: My main point is that Americans are very divided on impeachment and it has become a political football that gets in the way of a strong Democratic message on health care, economic opportunity and the environment where we win elections.
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With every failure to remedy -- or even address -- injustice, we add to the pain and allow the continued rhetorical use of Islam as a political football by those who have no real interest in anything other than their own self-interest.
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In the case of contraceptives, the U.S. remains just about the only country in the world that doesn't make the birth control pill available over the counter and that restriction makes them a political football and more expensive to boot.
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Although Horowitz himself is widely seen by lawmakers from both parties as nonpartisan and fair, his report is almost certain to become a political football in the ongoing fight over the department's conduct in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
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But while DC schools remain a political football for education reform's national supporters and critics, the city's biggest education experiment has stayed mostly out of sight: Since 2008, the District has been building the country's most comprehensive universal pre-K program.
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Making matters even worse, Trump has made this a political football by going after the Democratic leaders in Congress and not contradicting conservative commentators who are making outrageous claims about Democrats rooting for the virus to spread to gain political advantage.
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The market has been giving low odds to tax reform for fear it could become the next political football, over which Congress will not be able to agree — similar to health-care legislation which failed to win approval over the summer.
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By Friday, the town hall had already become a political football, reinterpreted and dissected by both sides of the gun control debate so that anybody who wants to have an opinion about it can have one ready to regurgitate at any moment.
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Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a former co-chair of the Conservative Party, instantly accused the politician of "making yet another leadership bid" by trying to use Muslim women as a "political football" and hence boosting his already high rating among rank-and-file Tories.
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VAT rules became a political football ahead of June 2016's Brexit referendum when it emerged that Britain could not exempt tampons and other female hygiene products from the tax even though goods such as razors, mainly used by men, are zero-rated.
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Referred to by critics as the "global gag rule," the policy has been subjected to a game of political football over the years, with Democratic presidents rescinding the policy upon taking office, as President Obama did in 22019, and Republican presidents reinstating it.
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The company risks becoming a political football in October's presidential election, with far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro's key economic adviser calling for its privatization, while leftist Ciro Gomes has warned investors to avoid state energy sector assets because he would expropriate them.
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"It avoids the trap of saying, 'I'm not going to own any technology because that's growth and we're not going to be in a growth market,' or 'I'm going to avoid all health-care stocks because that's a political football,'" he said.
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Despite the recent progress there are still plenty of doubts about ITER, especially in the United States, which left the project for five years at the turn of the century and where funding through the Energy Department has long been a political football.
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Long before China's trade practices became an issue for the national media and a political football in Washington, American soybean farmers were working to establish a relationship with China's livestock industry and government that has fostered greater interdependence between our two countries.
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But even if Last Man Standing is a little overblown as a political football, the first two episodes of its new seventh season make clear that it's finally become a much more interesting series about a topic it's always flirted with: masculinity.
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Erika Andiola, an undocumented immigration activist who benefited from DACA, blamed the people around Trump for using Dreamers as a "political football," offering to trade protections for policies that would build the wall and allow their undocumented parents to remain targets for deportation.
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The dossier has become a political football, with Republicans claiming it is unreliable and politically motivated and therefore should not have been used by the FBI, and Democrats arguing the FBI and Justice Department followed protocol in getting the go-ahead to surveil Page.
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"The SREs (Small Refinery Exemptions) are a political football for the president, and he's going to have to take a look at how it's affecting agriculture and farmers," said Mark Marquis, CEO of privately-held Marquis Energy, which operates ethanol plants in Illinois and Wisconsin.
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"People are tired of the same old same old politics, they're tired of the division, they're tired of people playing political football with their health care and their jobs and their economy," he told a small group of reporters here Friday in Troy's town square.
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That probably made sense tactically — the surrender is humiliating but dividing his own coalition would have been dangerous for Trump — but it means that once again, hundreds of thousands of young Americans have been used as a political football without ultimately experiencing any upside.
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The formerly classified memo has been used as a political football for the greater part of the last two weeks, with conservative news media and Republican politicians saying that the memo confirms that Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump has been tainted from the start.
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The increased polarization in society, the development of alternative schools of legal interpretation that line up with political leanings, and increased interest-group attention to the Supreme Court nomination process have combined to create a system in which the Court has become a political football.
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The state of Texas inserted itself into a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday to help argue that a black high school student was required to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, once again kicking the political football of flag protests into play weeks before the fall election.
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"Because there is a very, very important election coming up, we are going to remember which politicians and which individuals made of this very personal case a political football and we will make them pay a very high price in November," Cabrera said in a phone interview.
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In a cultural moment where the mysterious ways of algorithms are becoming more broadly distrusted by society at large, Twitter's filtering algorithm seems to have become the latest political football in a game with no winners, and little to show for it other than bruising all around.
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"Texas is continuing to play political football with the lives of refugee families," said Cecillia Wang, the director of the Immigrants' Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union and one of the lawyers who represented a nonprofit relief group, the International Rescue Committee, in the dismissed lawsuit.
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Both this bill and the one that would give a place of honor to a rifle with the power to take down a commercial aircraft are ways of playing "political football" with social issues, according to Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee.
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And Mike Bloomberg is the type of leader who is well versed in these issues and able to rise above the partisan fray so that we are not attributing it to one side of the political spectrum or the other, we're not using Israel as a political football.
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" In an email just one day earlier, Muchmore wrote that the water issue in Flint was "a challenging topic," and added that the state Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Community Health feel that some Flint residents were trying to turn the lead issue "into a political football.
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As the country's most alarming public health emergency in decades turns into a political football, public health experts, too, are in the midst of a heated scientific debate over how much of the addiction crisis has been driven by the decline of the working class, particularly in Appalachia and New England.
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Corker told the Tennessean that the issue is a "political football" and broke with the conspiracy theory that the caravan is being funded by liberal billionaire George Soros: "If anybody's funding it, it's some Republican donor, because it has obviously turned into an election issue that has benefited the Republican side."
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE has accused Menendez of using ambassador nominations as a "political football," according to NBC.
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As Trump and his Republican cronies continue to use health care as a political football and refuse to include health center funding in their continuing budget resolution, community health centers and the patients we serve are forced to wait anxiously, wondering if any of us will make it out alive.
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When Comey concluded his original investigation and found that no legal action was warranted, and said that this decision was not even a close call, he then allowed himself to be turned into a political football when his testimony was sought by various partisan committees conducting these four year old inquisitions.
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For those who prefer that the sport not become a, shall we say, political football, here are our Week 6 picks and an interactive calculator that lets you explore every team's path to the N.F.L. playoffs (which its makers say covers all "383 sexdecillion" different ways the season could end).
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In the lead-up to Australian elections on May 18, the question of what to do about the Sharrouf children has become something of a political football, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison softening to the idea of bringing them home but refusing to send Australians into Syria to do it.
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"At the same time, ... hedge funds will dump any industrial or tech company that's perceived as having too much reliance on the Chinese market, and here, you've got to think 3M, Emerson, United Technologies and, sadly, Apple, which has become the ultimate political football given its mastery ... in both countries, " he continued.
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GC: It's always unfortunate, I think, when a business deal becomes a political football, and that's always the risk with this deal in particular, given the timing surrounding Brexit, but does the business logic still stand, post-Brexit, that encouraged you to do the deal in the first place, with the LSE?
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"It is unthinkable that in the face of a public health emergency, Republicans chose to pass a hyperpartisan proposal that doubles down on using women's health as a political football by restricting access to women's health care, like contraception, which is especially critical to preventing the spread of this virus," said Sen.
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With more than 150 objects — including 14 bicycles and vintage cycling apparel — it traces the transformation of cycling's significance from a form of democratized transportation, which gave women and immigrants a sense of freedom, to a political football that continues to pit the city's more than 800,000 cyclists against their detractors today.
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With more than 53503 objects — including 211940 bicycles and vintage cycling apparel — it traces the transformation of cycling's significance from a form of democratized transportation, which gave women and immigrants a sense of freedom, to a political football that continues to pit the city's more than 21212,21994 cyclists against their detractors today.
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With more than 2212 objects — including 128 bicycles and vintage cycling apparel — it traces the transformation of cycling's significance from a form of democratized transportation, which gave women and immigrants a sense of freedom, to a political football that continues to pit the city's more than 22560,1970 cyclists against their detractors today.
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With more than 2500 objects — including 211950 bicycles and vintage cycling apparel — it traces the transformation of cycling's significance from a form of democratized transportation, which gave women and immigrants a sense of freedom, to a political football that continues to pit the city's more than 21917,21275 cyclists against their detractors today.
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With more than 74183 objects — including 74173 bicycles and vintage cycling apparel — it traces the transformation of cycling's significance from a form of democratized transportation, which gave women and immigrants a sense of freedom, to a political football that continues to pit the city's more than 74163,74153 cyclists against their detractors today.
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With more than 74173 objects — including 74163 bicycles and vintage cycling apparel — it traces the transformation of cycling's significance from a form of democratized transportation, which gave women and immigrants a sense of freedom, to a political football that continues to pit the city's more than 74153,74143 cyclists against their detractors today.
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But maintenance of that roadway infrastructure has long fallen to the states, and despite periodic bridge collapses and chronic congestion on key interstate highways, state and local politicians have largely used state fuel taxes as a political football, rather than as an engine to meet the needs of our nation's roads and bridges.
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With more than 150 objects — including 14 bicycles and vintage cycling apparel — it traces the transformation of cycling's significance from a form of democratized transportation, which gave women and immigrants a sense of freedom, to a political football that continues to pit the city's more than 4233,000 cyclists against their detractors today.
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These subsidies, called cost-sharing reductions because they reduce the amount people must pay out of pocket when they go to the doctor, have become a political football as President Trump and House Republicans try to repeal the federal health care law and negotiate a spending bill with a deadline looming this week.
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With more than 150 objects — including 14 bicycles and vintage cycling apparel — it traces the transformation of cycling's significance from a form of democratized transportation, which gave women and immigrants a sense of freedom, to a political football that continues to pit the city's more than 4233,000 cyclists against their detractors today.
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"Hopefully this is the beginning of seeing real movement, real management of an issue that I think no longer can sit and be used as a political football, one that must be addressed, and I think we can find a solution both in the interim and the long term of our nuclear waste," he said.
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Since the early 19th century, Hong Kong has been a political football in China's relations with the rest of the world, wrested out of China's sovereign control in a war waged over the right for the West to feed widespread opium addiction in China and establish terms of trade more favorable to Great Britain.
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Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (R-Iowa) recently questioned if Democrats are using the migrant families as a "political football" against Trump, while Sen.
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And as commuters around the region endure the disruptions caused by the decrepit rail conditions at Penn Station and watch as the Trump administration and Congress play political football with funding for the Hudson tunnel, the two tubes under Hudson Yards are viewed as another argument for the need to move forward with the project.
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I know that Devin suffered one during the final years of her life for no good reason, and that it happens to too many Americans, and that as long as health reform remains a political football, that injustice will repeat itself the way cancer cells kept multiplying inside Devin until her body could take no more.
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Under the Republican bill, there will be a 1 freeze on Medicaid expansion and the federal government will reduce funding from 100% to just 90% leaving the states to fill the gap -- a gap that will then be a political football, with Republicans who now control two-thirds of state legislatures doing everything possible to make Medicaid eligibility harder.
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Even in its final few weeks of existence, Trending couldn't shake its reputation for suppression: Ultimately, Trending's legacy is a case study in how an algorithmically-driven product can go horribly awry without proper human oversight, and how accusations of ideological bias can turn that same product into a political football, rendering it too problematic to live.
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So, instead of wasting time debating a complex tax policy that's become a political football and would raise enough revenue to fund the government for about three hours, let's discuss ideas for how to make tax policy work better for the entrepreneurial ecosystem so that it's easier to build the great companies of tomorrow here in America today.
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"The DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) and DCH (Department of Community Health) feel that some in Flint are taking the very sensitive issue of children's exposure to lead and trying to turn it into a political football claiming the departments are underestimating the impacts on the populations and particularly trying to shift responsibility to the state," said Muchmore.
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The Copa remained the Generalísimo's cup until his death in 1975, before it was finally named the Copa del Rey in 1976 with the return of the monarchy and the ascension of Juan Carlos I. With Spain's king now a symbolic head of state, the Copa del Rey is no longer quite such a political football.
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A Distraction Regardless, that toughness on terror, clearly a point of pride for Haspel and her supporters, has also become a public distraction and a political football, stoked by President Donald Trump's own tweets — which many have interpreted as an eagerness to return to the days of torture, a reversal Haspel has promised will not happen on her watch.
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CHIP has become a political football in the shutdown showdown: House Republicans attached a six-year extension of the funding bill after Congress had left the program without long-term funding for four months, in an attempt to win over Democrats — or to bludgeon them for failing to support the bill over other issues like immigration.
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Dennis Muchmore, Snyder's chief of staff, wrote in an email September 25: The DEQ and [health department] feel that some in Flint are taking the very sensitive issue of children's exposure to lead and trying to turn it into a political football claiming the departments are underestimating the impacts on the populations and particularly trying to shift responsibility to the state.
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Two state agencies responsible for health and environmental regulation "feel that some in Flint are taking the very sensitive issue of children's exposure to lead and trying to turn it into a political football claiming the departments are underestimating the impacts on the populations and particularly trying to shift responsibility to the state," Dennis Muchmore, then Mr. Snyder's chief of staff, wrote in a Sept.
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"The DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) and DCH (Department of Community Health) feel that some in Flint are taking the very sensitive issue of children's exposure to lead and trying to turn it into a political football claiming the departments are underestimating the impacts on the populations and particularly trying to shift responsibility to the state," wrote Dennis Muchmore, Snyder's former chief of staff.
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With more than 2200 objects — including 26 bicycles and vintage cycling apparel — the exhibition traces the transformation of cycling's significance from a form of democratized transportation that gave women, immigrants and minorities a sense of freedom beginning when the first bike arrived in New York City in 170, to a political football that continues to pit the city's more than 2212,2004 cyclists against their detractors today.
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RELATED: Clinton says Putin grudge led Russia to hack, Podesta says something "deeply broken" at FBI "It requires us not to re-litigate the election, it requires us not to point fingers, it requires us to just say, here's what happened, let's be honest about it, and let's not use it as a political football but let's figure out how to prevent it from happening in the future," Obama said.
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"Pundits trying to play political football with this issue act like it's a left versus right thing, or a crazy-young-people versus rational-older-people thing, but in reality, there's a strong case to be made that most students favor a liberal conception of campus free-speech rights; they're just quieter about their preferences than the activists who believe that open debate of controversial subjects is harmful," Singal wrote.
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Referred to by critics as the "global gag rule," the policy has been subjected to a game of political football over the years, with Democratic presidents rescinding the policy upon taking office, as President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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But this year, the visas have become a political football during an election season where presumptive nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE has made his concerns about illegal immigration and Muslim immigrants a centerpiece of his campaign.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE and Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE have made universal basic income, a monthly check to ensure financial stability for all Americans, the political football of today.
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The UK government has previously argued that the tax could not be cut because of European law — having been slashed from 17.5 percent in 2000, following a campaign by Labour Party MP Dawn Primarolo — and the issue had become a political football in Britain, ahead of a referendum in June which will see the British public vote on leaving the EU. "We're a step closer to ending the tampon tax," a British government spokeswoman told reporters after EU leaders agreed to express support in the summit statement for an adjustment to UK value-add tax [VAT] on women's sanitary products.
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