"We're closer than we've ever been, " said Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Massachusetts, one of the authors of a House bill that mirrors the McCain-Feingold legislation passed by the Senate in April.
And by the way, I just want to warn you, even though we now have every committee in Congress having voted out a bill and we're closer than we've ever been, this is when the insurance companies are really going to start gearing up, because now they're -- their stock went down when the Senate Finance Committee voted out that bill.
Obviously, our desire is to get something done this year, that we're closer to getting it done than we've ever been.
Mr. O'HANLON: No, I don't think we're quite ready for that, but we're getting closer to that.
Cheap access to space has been "the sort-of Holy Grail" for decades, "and we're not much closer to that than we were 50 years ago, " said Hertzfeld, who is also an adviser to Planetary Resources.
Unlike a lot of the industrialized West, we're generally much closer to our environment, but we don't focus on it.
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"We're not closer to a grand solution, " Elsa Lignos, London-based currency strategist for RBC Capital Markets said.
"The last few times we've played them we've felt that we're getting closer, " Duffy told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"We're getting closer (to the title) because another game passes by" manager Andy Hessenthaler told BBC Radio Kent.
"We're getting closer and closer to a disposable car, " says Danny R.
That's why we're building closer relationships between our workers and our entrepreneurs.
Overall, the first 3D broadcast from ESPN 3D is an exciting occasion for 3D fans and sports fans, and we're getting closer and closer to believing that the format actually has a chance at catching on in the home.
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Well, we're getting closer to another Stevenote and the Apple rumor mill is at full tilt, so take this one with a huge grain of salt, but the team over at AppleInsider says they "sincerely believe" that the Mac Mini is about to be discontinued.
"I don't think we're going to find the magic bullet--but we're going to get closer, " says Andres Negro-Vilar, chief scientific officer at Ligand Pharmaceuticals.
And when we're playing "Closer Walk" or anything like that, I mean, and we go from that to an upbeat, uplifting song and they could feel it, you know, and they react to it.
It means we're getting ever closer to the opening of the new bars, restaurants, shops and cinema that we've all been waiting for.
If those are the biggest barriers, though, we're still that much closer to the holographic smartphone we've always wanted.
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"We're an incremental step closer to worrying, but it isn't a worry where we need to say there is a pandemic coming, " she said.
As it appears, we're another step closer to one of the most-anticipated software updates of the summer.
But I also believe that by refining the diagnostic criteria to reflect current science, we're that much closer to getting it right.
"With CloudOn on the iPhone, iPad mini and Nexus tablet we're one step closer to ubiquitous mobile productivity, " said CloudOn CEO Milind Gadekar.
"I'm excited to be staying in Buffalo, because we're a lot closer to making the playoffs than what people might think, " Scott told The Associated Press by phone from his offseason home in Atlanta.
The fact -- the notion that we are now where we are losing -- in November we had positive job growth, but we're getting much closer to the margin of zero -- that's a fact.
The Republican also said: "We're four years closer to a nuclear Iran", although he softened the uncompromising tone that has been the hallmark of his campaign by emphasising that military action should be a last resort.
Still, judging by the bot manning the bar at the APEC forum in Busan, South Korea, we're inching ever closer to the day when ex-jocks don't have a guaranteed post-high school job at that local bar that sells booze to underage football players.
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We're big fans of The Closer so whenever there's an SD commercial we'll flip to TNT and check out the marathon running tonight.
Representative JOHN BOEHNER (R-Ohio, Minority Leader): And we're going to continue to work closer together, and to do everything that we can do to make sure that this bill never ever, ever passes.
"We're getting a lot closer to the nirvana of one-to-one marketing, " says Robert Deangelis, head of the bank's enterprise knowledge group.
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