Sentence examples for legislation at hand from inspiring English sources

They have nothing to do with the legislation at hand.

Representatives from groups including the American Chemistry Council, Procter & Gamble and the chemical company BASF expressed their support on Tuesday for the reform legislation at hand, saying it strikes a fair balance between public health and the economy.

New groups formed, legislation was introduced in Congress and a pivotal moment in gun legislation was at hand.

The occasion for breathing new life into this legislation is immediately at hand.

This is the only legislation that permanently addresses the problem at hand and provides certainty to the market.

But Mr. Romney managed to sidestep the issues at hand, refusing to address legislation that limits collective bargaining rights and a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to exempt Ohioans from the mandates in President Obama's national health care law.

The matter at hand in 1971 was legislation sought two years earlier by Frank Sharp, a businessman who developed Houston's Sharpstown district and had cultivated friends in high places.

Indeed, the sheer volume of imports to the U.S. suggests that FSMA may not be able to significantly address the challenge at hand, particularly if the legislation is not fully funded.

The legislation just passed is completely inadequate to the task at hand.

Will America develop and pass effective educational legislation aimed at creating viable solutions to the problem at hand?

The political momentum to pass such legislation, after the health-care reform success, may finally be at hand.