Yet he made the case that Congress, and Washington politics more broadly, had become a roadblock to progress.
Yankees officials almost certainly would not allow the issue to become a roadblock, because their desire to sign Giambi is fueled by their need for more offense.
"We need jobs and economic activity, and if preservation efforts become a roadblock, this mayor is not going to support them".
The rulings by state and federal courts in Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and other states have become a roadblock for efforts to curb the increasingly raucous nature of judicial politics.
Now, many European officials say, they are steeling themselves for years of conflict with Trump, and searching for other partners in areas such as climate change, where the United States has become a roadblock.
Speaking yesterday morning in the first of the day's two hearings on the plan, Mr. Menendez said that such increases would disproportionately fall on the poor in his district and become "a roadblock to opportunity" rather than a bridge to jobs.
The key issues of battery life and efficiency could become a roadblock to developing optimum functionality.
"If domestically-determined inflation stays sticky, it will become a roadblock to further interest rate cuts," he says.
