"Congressman Weiner takes the views of his colleagues very seriously and has determined that he needs this time to get healthy and make the best decision possible for himself, his family and his constituents," the statement from his office continued.
Some state lawmakers facing re-election have even sent postcards to their constituents and issued statements touting the tax-free week.
Despite enormous pressure, 161 reformist members of the 290-seat Parliamentheirewed their pledge to their constituents in a statement read on the floor on Sunday.
Addressing his constituents in a statement on Thursday, he said, "I trust you know that serving as your congressman this past decade has truly been one of the highest honors of my life".
This provides the means to go back and analyze all propositions into their atomic parts, since "every statement about complexes can be analyzed into a statement about their constituent parts, and into those propositions which completely describe the complexes" (TLP 2.0201).
The former prime minister calls for the union to be saved through the creation of a cross-party constitutional convention to bind the UK's four constituent parts with a common statement of values.
Many of them involved a single congressman making a statement about a constituent of his who was killed in this way, or asking a cursory question of the senior military official who happened to be testifying before the panel.
As an example, a statement like "this survey shows that 80% of Oregonians support this legislation" would be coded as both a scientific argument (citing statistics) and an ideological argument (claiming that constituent preferences matter).
It is understood Justine Greening, the education secretary, will restate her opposition to Heathrow expansion in a statement for constituents later on Tuesday afternoon.
Another endangered institution, a much newer one, is examined in the engrossing documentary "Startup.com," a fly-on-the-wall film about the growing pains of a company created to "facilitate the action between government and its constituents" -- a mission statement that its creators can't even make with a straight face.
