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Giving young people the autonomy to receive life-saving vaccines, regardless of their parents’ beliefs or work schedules, is essential for their physical and mental health, it’s unconscionable for teens to be blocked from the vaccine because a parent either refuses or cannot take their child to a vaccination site. – Scott Wiener	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But Democrats blocked it by denying 60, many of the same colleagues have spent weeks thundering… that the Senate's 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction, a Jim Crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way. But late last week they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These sanctions would do more harm than good, the Biden administration already capitulated to Russia a year ago when they allowed the Nord Stream 2 to go forward, which the Trump administration had blocked. That was the leverage that counted. – James Roberts	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think that we have, if not the best defense in the country, one of the most elite ones, i think we showed that tonight. We played aggressive, blocked shots, went after loose balls. – Walker Kessler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was too dangerous to get inside on the front side of the building with the fire, the front door and front window were blocked, fire was advancing to the entire home at that point. It was very difficult for firefighters to make a safe entry. It took a while. – Fire Marshal Doug Wilhelm	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Because that effort here in Congress is being blocked by a minority which is abusing its power, I believe the power has come to change the Senate rules to allow a straight up-or-down majority vote on this fundamental issue of democracy. – Maggie Hassan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today's report is in line with the United States' continuing opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and the U.S. Government's continued compliance with PEESA, with today's action, the Administration has now sanctioned 8 persons and identified 17 of their vessels as blocked property pursuant to PEESA in connection with Nord Stream 2. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He did not maintain a safe working environment, sets were almost always allowed to become increasingly claustrophobic, no established fire lanes, exits blocked ... safety meetings were nonexistent. – Maggie Goll	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I’ve been working around-the-clock to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill, legislation we helped craft back in April with my Senate colleagues, but a small far-left faction of the House of Representatives undermined that agreement and blocked a critical vote on the President’s historic bipartisan infrastructure bill. – Josh Gottheimer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is what I dedicated my life to, and what I believe in, and now we've been blocked from doing it. – Davis Hammet	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This has been incredibly frustrating. Every day there's irreparable harm, this is what I dedicated my life to, and what I believe in, and now we've been blocked from doing it. – Davis Hammet	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Each one of these eruptions would have had a significant climate impact — maybe the released gas made the atmosphere thicker or blocked the sun and made the atmosphere colder, modelers of the Martian climate will have some work to do to try to understand the impact of the volcanoes. – Patrick Whelley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Alone among the conservatives, Chief Justice Roberts calls out the Texas law for what it is -- a transparent attempt not just to undermine Roe, but to make it hard for such a restriction to be blocked, it's a pretty powerful sign that Chief Justice Roberts, at least, is not ready to overrule Roe. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
She came back in and had the entire class get up and leave to go to an empty classroom down the hall and when I tried to follow … the vice principal in the hallway blocked me. – Drew Nelson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That would be a pretty extreme step, the SPR is a national security asset for a time of emergency like the Strait of Hormuz being blocked or the Libyan Civil War. – Jason Bordoff	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I believe a bipartisan independent commission is the best approach — and although the House was able to pass the measure, it was blocked by the Senate. Today, I voted in support of the Select Committee( H.Res.503) because the truth matters. – Adam Kinzinger	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Right now, we have to address the reality that we have hundreds, if not thousands, of tents choking virtually every public space in this city and that does not comport with the public’s expectations of what a humane response should be, while we want to be compassionate to those on the streets, we have to respect the fact that people don’t want their doorways blocked, they don’t want their businesses blocked, they don’t want sidewalks impeded. – Ted Wheeler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Because of a malfunction, the brake was continuing to engage even when it wasn’t supposed to, to prevent the cabin from halting during the transport of passengers, they chose to not remove the dispositive that blocked the emergency brake. – Carabinieri Lt. Col. Alberto Cicognani	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Let's be clear. This was an execution. Andrew Brown was in his driveway. The sheriff truck blocked him in his driveway so he could not exit his driveway, andrew had his hands on his steering wheel – he was not reaching for anything, he was not touching anything, he wasn't throwing anything around. He has his hands firmly on the steering wheel. – Attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our driveways on my side were blocked for about three months this summer. Now the other side is blocked, so nearly every house on the opposite side of the street from mine has their driveways blocked. – Natalie Harvey	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Once you’ve been blocked so many times in trying to make an appointment, you might give up. So we are working as hard as we can to penetrate the most marginalized communities, to activate networks that are already existing. – Margaret Scharle	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There are two main risks : The first is to Twitter's employees in India, who may be at risk if the company fails to comply with demands, the second risk is that Twitter continues to refuse and gets blocked in India. While this may be the right moral outcome, it's obviously not the best outcome for the Indian people, many of whom rely on social media to get out key messages about what's happening on the ground. – Jillian York	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have entered a tunnel and I don’t know how we will get out of it, we are in a pitiful situation. The government situation is completely blocked. – Nabih Berri	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The rules are often interpreted differently by different reviewers, because they're intentionally left vague, so we live in constant fear we may have violated these vague rules, and that the next update to our applications will be blocked by Apple. – David Heinemeier Hansson	Found on CNN 3 years ago

Giving young people the autonomy to receive life-saving vaccines, regardless of their parents’ beliefs or work schedules, is essential for their physical and mental health, it’s unconscionable for teens to be blocked from the vaccine because a parent either refuses or cannot take their child to a vaccination site.

– Scott Wiener

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But Democrats blocked it by denying 60, many of the same colleagues have spent weeks thundering… that the Senate's 60-vote threshold is an offensive tool of obstruction, a Jim Crow relic, declaring that simple majorities should always get their way. But late last week they literally wielded the 60-vote threshold themselves.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These sanctions would do more harm than good, the Biden administration already capitulated to Russia a year ago when they allowed the Nord Stream 2 to go forward, which the Trump administration had blocked. That was the leverage that counted.

– James Roberts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that we have, if not the best defense in the country, one of the most elite ones, i think we showed that tonight. We played aggressive, blocked shots, went after loose balls.

– Walker Kessler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was too dangerous to get inside on the front side of the building with the fire, the front door and front window were blocked, fire was advancing to the entire home at that point. It was very difficult for firefighters to make a safe entry. It took a while.

– Fire Marshal Doug Wilhelm

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Because that effort here in Congress is being blocked by a minority which is abusing its power, I believe the power has come to change the Senate rules to allow a straight up-or-down majority vote on this fundamental issue of democracy.

– Maggie Hassan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today's report is in line with the United States' continuing opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and the U.S. Government's continued compliance with PEESA, with today's action, the Administration has now sanctioned 8 persons and identified 17 of their vessels as blocked property pursuant to PEESA in connection with Nord Stream 2.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He did not maintain a safe working environment, sets were almost always allowed to become increasingly claustrophobic, no established fire lanes, exits blocked ... safety meetings were nonexistent.

– Maggie Goll

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I’ve been working around-the-clock to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill, legislation we helped craft back in April with my Senate colleagues, but a small far-left faction of the House of Representatives undermined that agreement and blocked a critical vote on the President’s historic bipartisan infrastructure bill.

– Josh Gottheimer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is what I dedicated my life to, and what I believe in, and now we've been blocked from doing it.

– Davis Hammet

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This has been incredibly frustrating. Every day there's irreparable harm, this is what I dedicated my life to, and what I believe in, and now we've been blocked from doing it.

– Davis Hammet

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Each one of these eruptions would have had a significant climate impact — maybe the released gas made the atmosphere thicker or blocked the sun and made the atmosphere colder, modelers of the Martian climate will have some work to do to try to understand the impact of the volcanoes.

– Patrick Whelley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Alone among the conservatives, Chief Justice Roberts calls out the Texas law for what it is -- a transparent attempt not just to undermine Roe, but to make it hard for such a restriction to be blocked, it's a pretty powerful sign that Chief Justice Roberts, at least, is not ready to overrule Roe.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She came back in and had the entire class get up and leave to go to an empty classroom down the hall and when I tried to follow … the vice principal in the hallway blocked me.

– Drew Nelson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That would be a pretty extreme step, the SPR is a national security asset for a time of emergency like the Strait of Hormuz being blocked or the Libyan Civil War.

– Jason Bordoff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I believe a bipartisan independent commission is the best approach — and although the House was able to pass the measure, it was blocked by the Senate. Today, I voted in support of the Select Committee( H.Res.503) because the truth matters.

– Adam Kinzinger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right now, we have to address the reality that we have hundreds, if not thousands, of tents choking virtually every public space in this city and that does not comport with the public’s expectations of what a humane response should be, while we want to be compassionate to those on the streets, we have to respect the fact that people don’t want their doorways blocked, they don’t want their businesses blocked, they don’t want sidewalks impeded.

– Ted Wheeler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because of a malfunction, the brake was continuing to engage even when it wasn’t supposed to, to prevent the cabin from halting during the transport of passengers, they chose to not remove the dispositive that blocked the emergency brake.

– Carabinieri Lt. Col. Alberto Cicognani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Let's be clear. This was an execution. Andrew Brown was in his driveway. The sheriff truck blocked him in his driveway so he could not exit his driveway, andrew had his hands on his steering wheel – he was not reaching for anything, he was not touching anything, he wasn't throwing anything around. He has his hands firmly on the steering wheel.

– Attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our driveways on my side were blocked for about three months this summer. Now the other side is blocked, so nearly every house on the opposite side of the street from mine has their driveways blocked.

– Natalie Harvey

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Once you’ve been blocked so many times in trying to make an appointment, you might give up. So we are working as hard as we can to penetrate the most marginalized communities, to activate networks that are already existing.

– Margaret Scharle

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There are two main risks : The first is to Twitter's employees in India, who may be at risk if the company fails to comply with demands, the second risk is that Twitter continues to refuse and gets blocked in India. While this may be the right moral outcome, it's obviously not the best outcome for the Indian people, many of whom rely on social media to get out key messages about what's happening on the ground.

– Jillian York

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have entered a tunnel and I don’t know how we will get out of it, we are in a pitiful situation. The government situation is completely blocked.

– Nabih Berri

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The rules are often interpreted differently by different reviewers, because they're intentionally left vague, so we live in constant fear we may have violated these vague rules, and that the next update to our applications will be blocked by Apple.

– David Heinemeier Hansson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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