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These scores combine 15 indicators of lawmakers' success at moving their bills through the legislative process.

In addition to its efforts to gain influence with federal lawmakers, Success is also rapidly expanding within New York City, receiving approval Wednesday to open 14 new schools.

The high-tech industry has been lobbying lawmakers without success to increase the cap of 65,000 temporary work visas permitted each year.

These scores combine 15 indicators of a lawmaker's success at moving their bills through the lawmaking process.

He agreed with Mr. Fletcher that a degree was not as important to a lawmaker's success as other factors, including an ability to deal with people and an understanding of the issues and the political process.

Yet for all its apparent success, lawmakers have disregarded the V.A. model -- and others like it that use the government's immense power to negotiate lower prices -- as they try to give older Americans relief from rising drug costs while reshaping how the elderly get medical services.

That sense of urgency is what immigration reform advocates are trying to get across to lawmakers, with mixed success.

Claudia Roth, a Green leader and federal lawmaker, said the success of the Greens could be traced to issues beyond the nuclear accident in Fukushimo, Japan, which forced Mrs. Merkel to completely reverse her energy policy by phasing out nuclear power as soon as possible and replacing it with renewable energy, as well as gas and coal.

But Miller did take tough questions from lawmakers concerned about whether success in Afghanistan can be achieved.

But with a Republican governor and Republicans dominating both houses of the Legislature, several state lawmakers said that the success of the bill and the expansion amendment promoted by the N.R.A. seemed assured.

Bolstered by this success, Texas lawmakers this year passed another sweeping reform bill that commits the state to creating a unified juvenile justice agency that works in partnership with local governments, the courts and communities to provide comprehensive services to troubled young people and their families.