Sentence examples for a long legislative from inspiring English sources

"When you have a long legislative career, any piece of legislation can be used against you".

It remains to be seen how the game will play out over a long legislative session.

Unlike most other choices, Thune has a long legislative record that conservatives can trust.

A review of Mr. Paterson's time in office reveals many of the typical footprints of a long legislative career.

If the House approves the grant, it would be only the first step in a long legislative process.

A24 A Test of Authority for Director President Bush's signing of the bill to create a national intelligence director was the final act in a long legislative debate.

Yesterday, after a year long legislative effort led by President Asif Ali Zardari and his Pakistan Peoples Party in the National Assembly of Pakistan, agreement was finally reached on the most dramatic and sweeping constitutional changes in Pakistan's history, restoring the 1973 Pakistani Constitution, which created a Pakistani parliamentary democracy based on the British Westminster model.

The board was a top priority for Mr. Obama during the long legislative battle.

"We show where the waste is in medicine," said Dr. Elliott Fisher, a physician who is one of the principal authors of the Dartmouth work and was a frequent visitor to Washington during the long legislative debate.

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois and the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist of Tennessee, welcomed the president's proposal, but described it as one step in what will be a long, difficult legislative process.

"That's the governor's message," said Charles Perry, a Tea Party-anointed lawmaker who defeated the nearly three decade long legislative veteran Delwin Jones in the 2010 primary, mounting a grassroots attack from the right.