Sentence examples for lawmakers control from inspiring English sources

Congressional lawmakers "control the purse strings.

State lawmakers control those pensions and keep making them more expensive to please union lobbyists.

It also means eliminating the slush funds known as member items that lawmakers control and invariably abuse.

But lawmakers control its practices — particularly in shooting down repeated requests to eliminate costly Saturday mail deliveries.

Such mandatory spending proposals are likely to face opposition in Congress, however, because they represent spending above caps agreed to in a budget deal last year, and reduce lawmakers' control over the annual budget process.

Democrats led by Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts said the union pension plans were largely denied government help at the behest of White House and Republican lawmakers controlling negotiations to reconcile the House and Senate bills.

Matthews said that it would be "frightening" if Republican lawmakers controlled states like Pennsylvania, suggesting that they would try to break up blocs of black, Democratic voters.

Throughout his tenure, Mr. Freeh cultivated lawmakers with control over the F.B.I.'s budget, especially Republicans.

Closed party conferences allow relatively few lawmakers to control legislative business.

The primary offenders are the most senior lawmakers who control the authorization and disbursement of funds.

The message was directed at Democratic lawmakers who control the Legislature, with whom the governor is locked in prolonged disagreement over a budget for the 2004 fiscal year.