Sentence examples for damage lawmakers from inspiring English sources

To contain the damage, lawmakers and unions need to get equally serious about dealing with costs that are beginning to infuriate the people who pay the bills.

But with the Houston area alone suffering an estimated $2.1 billion in damage, lawmakers from stricken states have questioned the reduction.

Moreover, senior C.I.A. and F.B.I. officials have feared that if a commission's findings were damaging enough, lawmakers might strip the two agencies of their authority over terrorism, and instead create a new domestic intelligence agency.

To avoid unfair damage to a lawmaker's reputation, investigations usually become public only after a preliminary inquiry.

Numerous homes across the island were destroyed or damaged, and Hawaii lawmakers have set aside $100 million for cleanup costs.

The House Democratic leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, said that this provision of the law, aimed mainly at lawmakers, threatened "collateral damage" to staff members.

Others wonder whether lawmakers do worse damage.

Although the financial crisis did significant damage to the national economy, lawmakers have since had a spotty record when it comes to financial regulation.

In 1997, Alaska lawmakers did even more damage including severely limiting punitive damages - the kind the jury awarded against Exxon three years prior.

His repeated run-ins with lawmakers have further damaged confidence in Japan, both at home and abroad, and further delayed action.

The same goes for those waiting for lawmakers to fix the damage done to civil liberties by six years of President Bush and a rubber-stamp Republican Congress.