Sentence examples for firm legislative from inspiring English sources
Mr. Liu said he had talked to lawmakers, but had no firm legislative plans.
The internet proposals, slated for inclusion in the Queen's Speech laying out the government's firm legislative agenda, have been downgraded to a mere draft for consultation.
Mr. Warner then personally broke the news to Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, and the next day the Armed Services Committee voted to approve a firm legislative rebuke to the president's plan to reinterpret the Geneva Conventions.
"Taking Stock" traces in excruciating detail the Bush administration's failure to win a firm legislative footing in Congress for letting religious groups with the potential to carry out social programs contract with government agencies on the same terms as other groups while protecting their religious identity.
"So we want to see that put on a firm legislative footing, within an agreed framework.
Although he worked alongside a cadre of registered lobbyists, Daschle billed himself as a "special policy adviser" in the firm's legislative and public policy group, not as a lobbyist.
"Honestly, this doesn't have to be this difficult," Murray, the fourth-ranking Senate Democrat, said during an appearance at law firm Baker Hostetlers legislative seminar.
Prior to joining AT&T, Ms. Lombard was a Principal with Peck, Madigan, Jones & Stewart, Inc., a premier Washington DC government relations firm providing strategic, legislative, regulatory, public policy and communication services.
"He should look outside his own law firm," said Russ Haven, the legislative counsel for the New York Public Interest Research Group.
The legislature should return to firm adherence to the legislative process, discontinuing tactics that obstruct and delay, and limiting rules that shut out the minority.
"It is a lot more partisan than when I was there," agreed Mr. Roberts, who is now a principal at Roberts, Raheb & Gradler, a regulatory and legislative consulting firm that he helped to found.
