Sentence examples for decent legislation from inspiring English sources
Congress, as utterly useless as it has been in producing decent legislation, can only do that - legislation.
That inside game worked for the president in producing health care reform and the stimulus, but in those cases he had a Democratic majority to push through decent legislation.
"Until we can get some decent legislation to start with, I don't want to put the people who make those decisions offside, which Philip's ideas will definitely do, I'm sure.
But he offers nothing new here: these worries are widely shared and decent legislation can protect citizens from overzealous technocrats and rapacious businesses.
But whether you look at it optimistically or pessimistically, all politicians know that in the end the voters must be assuaged from time to time by politicians doing the job they're actually sent to Washington to do -- pass some decent legislation to make people's lives better.
So we've got little progress on the ability of Republicans to block any decent legislation in the Senate; powerful Democrats who keep saying they are open to a deal that cuts Social Security; a complete muddle over being tough on Wall Street, some good news and some bad; and a clear, confident progressive clarion call of an inauguration speech.
What he means is cut across health and safety and cut across basic, decent, supportive legislation for ordinary workers so he can allow employers to come in and drive down pay and conditions – all in the pursuit of more profit and not looking after the people who make that profit.
Then they will remember the days when Congressional Democrats' primary task was not to pass decent health care legislation but to block a plan to privatize Social Security.
If our government cannot pass financial regulation after a near total meltdown because of the powerful banking lobby, how is it going to craft thoughtful and decent health care legislation when it affects such a broad array of corporate interests?
Hancock was also at pains to describe the GDPR as "a decent piece of legislation", further justifying why the government intends to implement it in full.
