"You can talk about the fact that there has been certain legislation in Arizona and that people have used vitriolic language around target practice and the like.
The coalition of opposition parties that took more than a third of the seats thus would be able to block certain legislation and executive appointments.
Although the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution and congressional legislation after the American Civil War prohibited any such involuntary servitude in the United States, the former slaveholding states of the South devised certain legislation to make labour compulsory.
In an attempt to rein in spending, the transition team is also recommending that certain legislation creating a new program be forced to roll back or do away with a program of the same or greater size.
He or she didn't flat-out promise certain legislation, only to have it watered down, mired in committee or postponed until some far-away day when polarization ebbs and sanity flows.
Tasked with holding the government to account on all matters of equality, the committee will help ensure more is being done for women and minorities by scrutinising practices in Whitehall, as well as the impact of certain legislation on society.
Now Mrs. Clinton says that rather than retreating, as the White House maintained, she was in fact working hard behind the scenes proposing, writing and lobbying for certain legislation, budget appropriations and administration policies.
He has issued signing statements, noting his objections to certain legislation on constitutional grounds; he has expressed a willingness to create a system for trying detainees that offers fewer protections than criminal trials do; and his Administration has invoked the state-secrets privilege to keep information away from torture victims who have filed lawsuits.
He refused to sign the Susan B. Anthony Association's Pro-Life Presidential Leadership Pledge in June, for example, saying he agreed with its aims but that a president would not have the constitutional power to fulfill the promise to "advance" certain legislation.
Under Clinton, who became the most powerful money magnet the Oval Office had ever seen, the Democratic Party and its various committees began sucking up mountainous contributions from what are known in politics as access donors -- corporations, Wall Street firms and trade associations whose leaders had an interest in certain legislation or who coveted a ride on Air Force One.
