Sentence examples for achieving passage from inspiring English sources

Even so, Gov. Jeb Bush and leaders of Florida's State Legislature deserve credit for achieving passage of a voting reform package that promises to vault Florida beyond its embarrassing "hanging chad" crisis of last November into a leadership role in the effort to modernize voting throughout the country.

Her effectiveness was the single most important element in achieving passage of the ACA.

The bill, after achieving passage in both houses, then goes to the Oval Office for President Obama to sign.

That is why it is so important for Congress to finally pass a federal shield law for journalists and why we commend Senators Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, for a compromise bill designed to achieve passage.

By Richard Harris The New Yorker, March 28 , 1964P. 46 ANNALS OF LEGISLATION about the struggle to achieve passage of Senate Bill 1552, which was drafted by the Sen. Subcommittee on Antitrust & Monopoly, headed by the late Sen. Estes Kefauver.

ANNALS OF LEGISLATION about the struggle to achieve passage of Senate Bill 1552, which was drafted by the Sen. Subcommittee on Antitrust & Monopoly, headed by the late Sen. Estes Kefauver.

In July 1890, Senator Sherman achieved passage of a bill, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, in both houses.

In fact, Eisenhower administration members worked to help Kennedy achieve passage of the treaty in the Senate.

In the Senate, Harrison achieved passage of his Dependent Pension Bill, only to see it vetoed by President Grover Cleveland.

It stakes out the contours of the opera and achieves passages of real emotion and drama.

It finally forged a compromise with moderate Democrats last week in hopes of achieving quick passage of a bill that would grant the president the right to negotiate trade agreements without being second-guessed by Congress.