Sentence examples for election lawmakers from inspiring English sources
After the general election, lawmakers will walk into a legislative session where the guy with the pledges has veto power over their bills.
Instead of holding a courteous joint session to certify the election, lawmakers were forced to retreat to their separate chambers for two hours of debate.
With all of the House and a third of the Senate up for election, lawmakers are eager to finish their work and return home to campaign.
Many observers believe that when a special legislative session is convened after the election, lawmakers will be forced to cut the two largest areas of the budget, Medicaid and education.
Not long after the election, lawmakers here say, private conversations began anew about the possibility of a law limiting unions while Republicans held a larger majority in the State House than they will come January when newly elected members are seated.
Emboldened by the loss of an establishment candidate in the last election, lawmakers choose that day to pass the most ambitious economic reforms in a generation.
After the department became an issue in the 2002 elections, lawmakers returned here to quickly pass the bill that created it.
Reapportionment gave Colorado a new House seat this year, and in redrawing the state Congressional map for the 2002 elections lawmakers here made sure it would be competitive.
In an effort to make it easier for military and overseas voters to take part in elections, lawmakers may have killed turnout in primary election runoffs in Texas and increased the electoral power of organized groups like the Tea Party.
Under the agreement that takes the spending fight off the table before the presidential and Congressional elections, lawmakers have agreed to a slightly higher rate of spending: $1.047 trillion as opposed to $1.043 trillion.
WASHINGTON — The economic upheaval is threatening to topple Republican Congressional candidates, putting more Senate and House seats within Democratic reach less than a month before the elections, lawmakers and campaign strategists say.
