Sentence examples for funded legislation from inspiring English sources

Initially skeptical of why girls of their age would be interested in politics, the mayor eventually listened to them, worked to understand them, and then co-wrote and funded legislation that resulted in more community programs for adolescents.

Discusses the debt ceiling which always gets raised by Congress in order to fund legislation it has passed.

Anti-abortion organisations across the US promote and fund legislation that seeks any way to quietly fracture reproductive rights, in line with the wider anti-abortion agenda.

While it was anticipated that the government would try to reduce all forms of civil litigation funding at some point, it was not expected that they would import alternative civil litigation funding legislation under the radar.

A procedural vote in the Senate to move forward with DHS funding legislation, which requires 60 senators to overcome the threat of a filibuster, was defeated by 47 votes to 46.

DHS funding legislation winding its way through Congress suggests the plan is to throw still more money at the problem.

Negotiations between Democrats and Republicans, who need at least eight Democratic votes to pass funding legislation in the Senate, were moving along.

According to the survey, only 44percentt of respondents were aware that Congress failed to pass funding legislation for Zika virus response efforts before heading home for the summer on July 14.

House leaders are growing increasingly concerned that the Senate's mechanism for funding legislation -- which relies on taxing high-end insurance policies -- represents not just bad policy but could also be disastrous at the polls.

But any fund legislation needs to go through Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

A trip to Brussels on September 2nd by Boris Johnson, London's mayor, to combat proposed anti-hedge fund legislation may not quite clinch it.