That a particular policy area falls into a certain category of competence is not necessarily indicative of what legislative procedure is used for enacting legislation within that policy area.
Last summer, in discussing benchmarks for Iraqi political progress, American legislators focused on whether the Iraqis were enacting legislation.
In the United States, our legislative branch of government is responsible for enacting legislation.
California has been a leader in shark conservation, enacting legislation protecting white sharks in 1997.
We're enacting legislation that's used for media bites, as opposed to legislation that addresses the problem.
Plainly, a non-discrimination clause means not enacting legislation that discriminates on the basis of race.
For them, politics is more about earning respect and making a statement than it is about enacting legislation.
The Senate president, Richard J. Codey, said in a statement that Senate Democrats were committed to enacting legislation before July.
It bred a Republican Party that was less interested, at that time, in enacting legislation, than in taking control".
The accounting office said that statement was acceptable because it simply described "the constitutional process for enacting legislation".
Even before Friday, the Legislature had already largely given up enacting legislation in response to the corruption scandals that swept through Albany this year.
