The phrase "achieve legislation" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing the process of successfully passing laws or regulations.
Example: "The advocacy group worked tirelessly to achieve legislation that would protect the environment."
Alternatives: "pass legislation" or "enact laws".
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have taken flack for daring to cross party lines to achieve legislation or to analyze best practices.
The Supreme Court found that the city charter amendment, by singling out antidiscrimination ordinances, placed special burdens on racial minorities, making it more difficult for them to achieve legislation that was in their interest.
"The reason to get involved in electoral politics is not to achieve a grip-and-grin photo at a banquet, but to achieve legislation that brings the rank and file a higher standard of living". Issues like family health care, public education, a living wage and job protections motivate working-class Latinos.
Our staff also has to contend with state-mandated, test-focused policies that include the misleading A-F grading system, the destructively stressful Read to Achieve legislation, and a persisting threat to use test scores to measure teacher quality, despite abundant evidence that such policies are neither accurate nor effective.
He would like to lame the unions — he has already proposed, and in part achieved, legislation to compel minimum services during transportation and education strikes — but he does not embrace the rest of the Thatcherite program of liberalism.
Once marginalized from workplaces and other aspects of common life, they have achieved legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act which symbolize and enforce inclusion.
The California Film Commission (one of MIHH's enthusiastic backers) has now achieved legislation in which the State of California and the Hollywood state-of-mind can meet and beat those Euros and Canadian dollars and Icelandic whatever-they're-calleds.
We propose that accountable care organizations (ACOs), which are expected to proliferate under the ACA, present the best opportunity to establish partnerships between healthcare, public health, and community-based organizations to achieve the legislation's goals.
It is only the latest example of Trump trying to accomplish through regulation what Republicans have been unable, so far, to achieve through legislation.
As a result, he will stress success through executive actions, though their reach would be far more modest than what he could achieve through legislation.
Stymied by a do-nothing Congress even as dramatic evidence of climate change continues to mount, Obama is using the executive authority he possesses through the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act to achieve what legislation has failed to do.
