Sentence examples for asking for legislation from inspiring English sources
To cover those potential losses — estimated to be $5 billion to $10 billion — the White House is asking for legislation to impose a fee on big banks.
It meant the administration "did not favor asking for legislation in areas in which the president already had robust constitutional authorities because it would set precedents that permanently limited the authority of future presidents," Rumsfeld notes.
On 12 December, the Stationers submitted yet another petition asking for legislation on the issue, and the House of Commons gave three MPs – Spencer Compton, Craven Peyton and Edward Wortley – permission to form a drafting committee.
The president's new plan, announced last week, asks for legislation to require those changes.
Jonathan Burman, a spokesman for the State Education Department, said that it planned to ask for legislation allowing exceptions for the flu outbreak.
Mr. Kahan approached State Senator Rodney Ellis, Democrat of Houston, and asked for legislation that would restrict the release of such photos.
Eventually, he and his colleagues decided that Bush would have to go to Congress instead and ask for legislation to amend the FISA law.
Mr. Campbell acknowledged today that his powers to curb consumption were limited and said he might ask for legislation to broaden them.
Also, in the early 80's, the movie companies went to Congress to ask for legislation requiring video stores to pay a royalty each time they rented a cassette.
"Imagine, if you can, that Congress is unable to act when the President asked for legislation," Chief Justice John Roberts said, during oral arguments before the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, in Trump v. Hawaii et al., a challenge to President Trump's third travel-ban executive order.
In written and oral presentations yesterday to the Senate and House Commerce Committees, representatives of the airlines asked for legislation that would limit their financial responsibility to only the passengers and crew of the three planes that crashed in New York and Washington and an aircraft that plowed into a field in Pennsylvania.
