Sentence examples for getting the legislation through from inspiring English sources

Straw said there was still a chance of getting the legislation through before an election.

She will need the support of the 10 DUP MPs to have any chance of getting the legislation through and allowing the Conservatives to govern without a majority.

Labor, the Greens and five of the eight crossbench senators have stated their opposition to the abolition of the OAIC, meaning the government has little prospect of getting the legislation through the Senate.

The immediate challenge for Trump, however, is getting the legislation through the House, and lawmakers said his meeting Thursday with its most vocal conservative critics showed he is taking a hands-on approach.

For Jason Grumet, who as executive director of America's National Commission on Energy Policy has been pushing cap-and-trade legislation for years, "mistrust of the market is as big a challenge to getting the legislation through as concerns about costs".

As lawmakers look ahead to the challenge of getting the legislation through the House, "Fox News Sunday" will talk to Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, who helped usher the bill through the Senate.

"The final result was we got the legislation through".

The government says it would still like to abolish the CEFC but cannot get the legislation through the Senate.

"This is a situation where we've got 84 supporters in the House of Reps and 41 in the Senate – that's enough to get the legislation through.

After supporters were unable to get the legislation through Congress before the election, Mr. Bush signed the second extension in late November.

The climbdown was prompted by concerns that the government would be unable to get the legislation through parliament because of unease of its implications for civil liberties.