pushback

pushback
a) Backlash of any sort

More pushback from Hill on eavesdropping

b) the act of repelling such as an enemy

Moreover, when Democrats, notably former House minority leader Richard Gephardt, finally put their heads up in the late spring of 2002 to ask questions about that Aug. 6, 2001, memo warning of the possibility of terrorist attacks, the Republican pushback was furious.


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