This is a complex inquiry that may seem irrelevant, speculative or a fishing expedition.
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Yet, instead of creating jobs or helping the middle class, congressional Republicans are focused on this politically motivated, taxpayer-funded, election-year fishing expedition.
But I love dumping in handfuls of leafy greens and an avalanche of tofu and going on a fishing expedition for them later.
It doesn't seem like a fishing expedition to me exactly, but then they also say, well it's not our policy to talk about staff meetings.
He said the whole process of governance had been strictly adhered to to ensure police did not go on a "fishing expedition into areas we should not have gone".
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They, the spokesman Scott McClellan has said, well we don't want to go on a fishing expedition when members of the press have asked who in the White House Abramoff met with.
Apparently he had dropped his cellphone in the bowl (another reason that books make better, cheaper companions on the throne), made the decision to do the unthinkable, and hopefully rolled up his sleeve for his unfortunate fishing expedition.
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He just continued to let them run through the processing conveyor belt for oil extraction, in a one size fits all penalty regime, and then ground them up for fish fertilizer, while bragging about the results of his fishing expedition.
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It might have been a better idea, rather than embarking on what seems like a potentially criminal political fishing expedition, to actually take a look at the huge amounts of money being spent out in the open during the last campaign.
As members on both sides of the aisle have said, this is not a step that should be undertaken lightly and it is one, as the Democratic members have argued, that should not to a fishing expedition to find something better than that which has been sent in the original referral.
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