In this legislative session, Arizona businesses rallied behind a bill to create what would have been the first state guest worker program in the country.
This legislative session, he reintroduced the bill.
This legislative frenzy is accelerating.
MH ignores this legislative history.
At campaign stops, Mr. Bush attacked the "soft bigotry of low expectations" in public schools, and once in office, No Child Left Behind became his legislative initiative.
"Once the system got overloaded, it fell farther and farther behind," said Rick Warsinskey, legislative director of the National Council of Social Security Management Associations, which represents managers from the agency.
The drop in gas prices and other energy costs helped lower that index, but "the things that seniors spend money on — healthcare, food and housing — are things that have all gone up [in price] so seniors are falling behind," said David Certner, legislative policy director at the retiree organization AARP.
The new measures are not specific to the tobacco industry, but both cigarette makers and state officials acknowledge that the industry is behind the legislative push.
"Our approach is much more sensible and consumer friendly than curtailing the industry," said Gary Chodes, chief executive of Oasis Legal Finance in Illinois, one of the largest lawsuit lenders and a driving force behind the legislative campaign.
Like any team or coalition facing a strong partner, Democrats seeking to gain ground during the Trump presidency should unite behind the legislative and policy priorities where they could make gains.
