Sentence examples for bit of legislative from inspiring English sources

"There's going to be quite a bit of legislative activity in the lame duck session," said Dale Florio, a lobbyist and the Somerset County Republican chairman.

The situation arises from a bit of legislative arcanum known as "committee ratios," which at the moment are a source of great angst on Capitol Hill.

"In these divided times, we anticipate that this bit of legislative silliness will be a refreshing breath of bipartisanship," he concluded.

Selling them on the Hill will take a bit of legislative craft.

This recent bit of legislative history will make it harder for her to flip-flop or claim impartiality in the future, should she find the need to do so.

Late on Friday, as it became increasingly clear the Republican conference was shifting toward Coburn, Norquist performed a bit of legislative gymnastics, releasing a statement saying that it was okay to support the Coburn amendment -- the same measure he'd savaged for weeks -- as long as Coburn also supported an amendment from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C).

Even a "compromise" bit of legislation that would have resulted in the interest rates getting chopped to a mere 391%, could not get out of legislative committee.

And we are planning a bit of post-legislative scrutiny as well.

In power, they have seen cherished bits of their legislative agenda suffer that very fate.The latest setback came on July 4th with a federal-court ruling that the government's cuts to health care for refugees made in 2012 represented "cruel and unusual treatment", specifically prohibited under the charter.

The last bit of Julia GIllard's legislative legacy is through the lower house.

DEPENDING on your perspective, it was either a pointless bit of argy-bargy outside a milquetoast legislative council or a soul-stirring "siege of Legco".