Related questions have arisen over businesses' customer records, which courts generally allow police to obtain without a warrant.
Any revisions to Senate rules usually require 67 votes, a threshold that is impossible to obtain without significant Republican support.
(The pen-register law allows the government to obtain – without a warrant – phone-call details such as who an individual calls, and when).
The U.S. economy needs more capital in the next ten years than it knows how to obtain without sharply altering the disposition of the nation's wealth.
But it has focused on information, such as car registrations and mobile phone numbers, which are often all but impossible to obtain without "blagging" or similar practices.
Mortgages are difficult to obtain without lying, which in the current climate, with banks asking ever more intrusive questions, is going to be difficult.
"Nothing in this interim order affects the ability of the applicant's employees and students to obtain, without cost, the full range of FDA approved contraceptives," the order said.
The agency cannot subject chemicals to safety testing without evidence that they are potentially risky — which is hard to obtain without testing.
Since melting point data are difficult to obtain without making the actual salt, predicting salt solubility remains difficult.
Health insurance enables us to obtain, without any economic disincentives, basic health care, including vaccinations, childbirth, children's checkups and other routine health care.
The new regulations would reduce by half, to 90 days, the supply of the drug a patient could obtain without a new prescription.
