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Without a statutory underpinning, it seems to me to be a complete non-starter. – Aileen McHarg	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Let me clarify Senate rules and Senate history for those who may be confused. First, about this fantasy that the speaker of the House will get to hand design the trial proceedings in the Senate, that's obviously a non-starter. – Leader McConnell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If the U.S. was really serious about negotiations they would have learned already that this wasn't an approach they could take. it's already been rejected more than once, and to keep bringing it up ... would be rather insulting. It's a non-starter and reflects absolutely no learning curve in the process. – Jenny Town	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We were optimistic that he might ... open up government so we could have this discussion, but then we heard what the particulars were in it and it was a non-starter, unfortunately. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter, for one thing, this proposal does not include the permanent solution for the Dreamers and TPS recipients that our country needs and supports. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
That's a non-starter and I think what The President needs to do more than anything else as The President's painted The President into a corner on this thing is figure out how to un-paint The President into a corner. We need to re-open the government. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Look, if Harry Truman couldn't nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this President doesn't have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border, so that's a non-starter. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 5 years ago
You guys did it here in one fell swoop and I wish that could happen in my country, but it’s such a personal issue for people that we cannot talk about it sensibly, people get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter. – Matt Damon	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
People get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter. – Matt Damon	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It doesn’t take much to know that you shouldn't be putting whole bills like that, which you know the president is going to veto, in that bill, that is a non-starter. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That is a non-starter. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Without a statutory underpinning, it seems to me to be a complete non-starter.

– Aileen McHarg

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Let me clarify Senate rules and Senate history for those who may be confused. First, about this fantasy that the speaker of the House will get to hand design the trial proceedings in the Senate, that's obviously a non-starter.

– Leader McConnell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If the U.S. was really serious about negotiations they would have learned already that this wasn't an approach they could take. it's already been rejected more than once, and to keep bringing it up ... would be rather insulting. It's a non-starter and reflects absolutely no learning curve in the process.

– Jenny Town

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We were optimistic that he might ... open up government so we could have this discussion, but then we heard what the particulars were in it and it was a non-starter, unfortunately.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter, for one thing, this proposal does not include the permanent solution for the Dreamers and TPS recipients that our country needs and supports.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

That's a non-starter and I think what The President needs to do more than anything else as The President's painted The President into a corner on this thing is figure out how to un-paint The President into a corner. We need to re-open the government.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Look, if Harry Truman couldn't nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this President doesn't have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border, so that's a non-starter.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You guys did it here in one fell swoop and I wish that could happen in my country, but it’s such a personal issue for people that we cannot talk about it sensibly, people get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter.

– Matt Damon

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

People get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter.

– Matt Damon

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It doesn’t take much to know that you shouldn't be putting whole bills like that, which you know the president is going to veto, in that bill, that is a non-starter.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That is a non-starter.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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