Sentence examples for large legislation from inspiring English sources

"And then recently, we've seen an end to earmarks, and Congress has done... very little this year in terms of passing meaningful large legislation.

And, us being the first generation to grow up with the internet at large, legislation regulating usage has yet to be drawn up -- whether it's watching porn, scrolling social media or trolling someone in a thread.

After Mr. Thompson's original bill was folded into larger legislation, the get-off-the-plane provision was eliminated.

Mr. McCain's aides insist that Mr. Gavin and others from Patton Boggs had nothing to do with the drafting of the larger legislation.

House ways and means chairman Charlie Rangel has a bill to raise taxes on private equity carried interest, but he has delayed voting because he wants to attach it as a payment mechanism for larger legislation - most likely a comprehensive overhaul of the alternative minimum tax, which, lacking an inflation index, every year takes a larger bite out of middle-class wallets.

Instead, dealing with the Dreamers must be part of larger legislation that addresses other immigration issues, he said.

That would leave Obama with a tough decision to make, especially if alterations to Obamacare are included as part of larger legislation he supports.

When the 2010 defense authorization bill came up for a vote, representatives from GetEqual and the undocumented youth movement collaborated to attach both the DREAM Act and DADT repeal to the larger legislation.

Democrats attempted to put the DREAM Act and a repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell with the defense authorization bill earlier, but many Republicans objected on the grounds that the two measures were unrelated to the larger legislation.

A former Parliamentary draftsman quoted in the civil service trade paper, Civil Service World, described it "as the largest scale legislation and policy exercise that has ever been carried out".

Just a few months after the shooting, President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks for gun purchases; the following year, the government placed a ban on a variety of assault weapons as part of larger crime legislation.