Sentence examples for lawmakers hard from inspiring English sources

The broadcast industry has lobbied the F.C.C. and lawmakers hard to expand the must-carry rules to apply to both analog and digital signals.

Sheetz Corp. operates nearly 400 gas stations and convenience stores from Ohio to North Carolina, and CEO Stan Sheetz is pressing lawmakers hard to lower swipe fees.

We applaud West Virginia for signing naloxone access into law this week, and are hopefully for the lawmakers hard at work to make sure ultimately both Good Samaritan and naloxone access laws are enacted in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Florida.

For months, the group had been lobbying lawmakers hard to push the Iran sanctions bill, even launching an attack on one of its biggest allies, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla)., for not supporting it.

Lawmakers are hard at work raising money.

A group of left-leaning lawmakers in hard hats waved Mexican flags while the chairman of the energy committee, Alejandro Sánchez Comacho, chanted into a bullhorn.

Meanwhile, lawmakers pressed hard to win approval for pet tax breaks that had been lying around for years but rejected on previous occasions.

But this statement and the temperate tone of the draft memo to lawmakers are hard to get excited about after hearing Trump tell a joint session of Congress that he took inspiration for his trade ideas from an 1847 Abraham Lincoln quote warning that abandoning protectionism would produce "want and ruin among our people".

When Congress was debating legislation to give the president the right to negotiate trade deals and subject them only to a simple up or down vote in Congress, some lawmakers pressed hard to prohibit American negotiators from even discussing concessions on dumping.

Now, lawmakers are hard at work boosting the debt by roughly another $800 billion.

The House of Representatives was set to vote Monday on a proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial services industry after a weekend of difficult negotiations produced a bill that congressional leaders were willing to accept but that many rank and file lawmakers found hard to swallow.