Sentence examples for instructed lawmakers from inspiring English sources

Republican leaders charged Tuesday that the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev). have instructed lawmakers who brokered the pact to withhold their final signatures from a report that would send the deal for a vote until votes are held on an extension of the payroll tax.

Shortly after he was sworn in, Newsom instructed lawmakers to fast-track charter legislation that politicians had been arguing over for years.

The court said it had been too long since Congress wrote the criteria determining which states and locations fell under the law, and instructed lawmakers to update the requirements.

President Chen said he would instruct lawmakers from his Democratic Progressive Party to vote with lawmakers from the opposition Nationalist Party to pass a special law making the recount possible.

Third Way, an influential centrist Democratic group, has pushed polling data instructing lawmakers how best to pass marriage equality laws across the nation.

But, he said, Reid and Obama instructed the lawmakers who brokered the deal to withhold their final signatures from a report that would send the deal forward for a vote in order to gain leverage on the payroll tax issue.

In a private memo distributed on the Hill, the centrist-Democratic group Third Way instructs lawmakers to pinpoint at least seven tax expenditures to toss in the scrap heap.

Mr. Gore tried not to let his own circumstances dampen the occasion, cheerfully instructing the lawmakers to pose with their left hands on the Bible, signing autographs and making small gestures of affection to old friends.

He said members of the lower house should not have publicly announced their positions prior to the vote, and that it had been wrong of party leaders to instruct their lawmakers how to vote.

Instead, the president instructed America's lawmakers to "seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels".

Rather than dictate the minutiae of every rule, lawmakers instructed regulators to write some 300 new rules for Wall Street.