The phrase "awkward legislative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a legislative process or situation that is uncomfortable, clumsy, or not smooth in execution.
Example: "The committee faced an awkward legislative session as members struggled to agree on the proposed bill."
Alternatives: "clumsy legislative" or "uncomfortable legislative".
Obama will leave office later this month with an awkward distinction: Barring a legislative miracle, he will be the first president of either party since Ronald Reagan to not sign a minimum wage package.
In contrast, he argues that by authorizing judges to make statutory rules more coherent with their apparent overall purposes, purposivism makes it surpassingly difficult for legislators to define reliable boundary lines for the (often awkward) compromises struck in the legislative process.
New Jersey judges and justices are constitutionally protected from a new law requiring state employees to contribute more toward their health and retirement benefits, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, damaging one of Gov. Chris Christie's signature legislative victories and creating the awkward spectacle of judges taking action to preserve their own compensation.
It's been an awkward couple of days in Sacramento, as legislative Republicans saw many of the comments as over the top.
But he was unable to answer Chris Matthews most basic demand: "Name some of his legislative accomplishments... name any...".. A fantastically awkward mix of dead air, stuttering, laughter and repetition ensued, as Watson could not name a single one.
By emphasizing the possibility that awkward statutory language may reflect an awkward but unseen legislative compromise, textualists seek to make it easier for Members of Congress to articulate and make stick potential compromises.
Though he is proud of what he accomplished over a decade in the top post, Janssen said many good things happened despite a "very awkward" government structure in which the five elected supervisors wield both legislative and executive authority.
Textualists believe that the legislative process favors compromise and that compromises are often complex, awkward, and even incoherent making it dangerous for judges to smooth over the details of an agreed-upon text to make it more coherent with its perceived purpose.
"Really awkward": The President, after all, has stood by the necessity of the Section 215 program and objected to legislative proposals to curtail it.
Some have described him as aloof or awkward, struggling to remember names and poor at the backslapping and glad-handing skills that are useful for lubricating the legislative process in a state capitol.
