Sentence examples for Basic legislative from inspiring English sources

Congress's failure to perform its most basic legislative duty is distressing.

But in Albany it leads to rifts over basic legislative issues -- like the budget.

They are doing the same thing with their basic legislative responsibilities; they are the little men in the distant office, sending out letter after letter: deny, deny, deny.

During a lull in an Appropriations subcommittee meeting on Tuesday, Collins and Reed kibbitzed about the President's state of mind, including his evident confusion about basic legislative procedure.

Several prominent lawmakers have said that the Treasury Department's action was improper, and a significant change in policy, because it circumvented the basic legislative process behind the nation's tax laws and involved no discussion in Congress, which writes the Internal Revenue Code.

Obama and congressional Democratic leaders have refused to engage in any negotiations thus far, saying that they do not want to establish a precedent — for the rest of Obama's presidency and for future presidents — that the party controlling just one chamber of Congress could hold hostage these basic legislative functions in exchange for political ransom.

The German federal states, the so-called Bundesländer, enjoy far-reaching autonomy: according to Germany's basic law, legislative authority rests with the states unless it is not explicitly stated otherwise.

However, even if all recommendations from these programs were enacted, the basic European legislative framework would remain scattered, creating large obstacles to a coordinated response to the invasive species problem.

And an enormous amount of work still needs to be done for all LGBT Americans to have the most basic of legislative protections.

This decision was compelled both by the decision of the Senate conferees to "recede" to the House version, and by basic rules of legislative drafting, as reflected in the legislative drafting manuals established by the House and the Senate: An amendment fails to execute if a prior amendment in the same bill removes or alters the text that the subsequent amendment would amend.

To read it fully takes some discipline, and some basic knowledge of legislative procedures and jargon.