Sentence examples for lawmaker support from inspiring English sources

TOKYO — Voters helped Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan move closer on Sunday to securing the lawmaker support he needs to revise a pacifist Constitution that has been in place since American occupiers created it in 1947.

Further, the assault weapons measure includes a restriction on the size of gun magazines, which, while vehemently opposed by the N.R.A. and other gun rights groups and some members of Congress, has broader public and lawmaker support than an all-out ban on the weapons.

Winning lawmaker support is only part of the battle.

The governor, who failed to raise the measure during the regular spring legislative session, has cultivated no lawmaker support.

"By and large, there's a great deal of buy-in," Mason Tvert said to Hayes on the the overall quality and state lawmaker support of the marijuana laws.

"He'll have to work harder to gain lawmaker support this time," said Dennis Darnoi, a GOP consultant and owner of Farmington Hills-based Densar Consulting.

But not a single conservative lawmaker supports this bill.

The Ohio Liberty Coalition, a network of Tea Party groups, threatened a primary challenge to any lawmaker supporting the governor on Medicaid expansion.

Some labor unions and some Democratic lawmakers support the pipeline project.

But as problems for consumers spread, so may lawmakers' support for his bill, Mr. Israel said.

Such proposals have gone nowhere, even in the Republican-dominated Texas legislature, where many lawmakers support public education.