Sentence examples for legislation told from inspiring English sources

Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, told the Press Association: "The state cannot arbitrarily place restrictions upon him.

Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat who has played a leading role in negotiations over the legislation, told reporters, "A straight party-line vote on the mark-up may actually enhance the chances for a bipartisan bill on the floor".

Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, a Democrat who is one of the eight senators working to draft the legislation, told the crowd that the group was close to presenting a bill.

"Heritage, I think, is the king of dynamic scoring, and in many respects we've advocated for dynamic scoring here because of the positions that they've taken," Mr. Rubio, a chief author of the legislation, told reporters.

"One of the biggest weaknesses of Dodd-Frank is that we failed to look long and hard at true independence of regulators," a frustrated and regretful Senate staff member, who worked on the legislation, told me the other day.

"He got his friends down at the soup kitchen, took them to the polls and told them to vote," Pscholka, a sponsor of the state's emergency-manager legislation, told me one morning in Benton Harbor.

But he added that he was not yet ready to move forward with legislation, telling the audience that he intended to explore the issues and develop a consensus.

Thomas J. Szkutak, Amazon's chief financial officer, dismissed any ill effect from legislation, telling reporters this week that "certainly we'll continue to have a good business in those states".

"I think the only way you can get the board to listen is to pass legislation telling them what they must do, because otherwise they won't".

Maduro, who denied that those incarcerated were political prisoners, responded by promising to veto the legislation, telling a national television audience that "laws to protect terrorists and criminals will not get past me, no matter what they do".

Last March, Donald Trump entertained the notion of more ambitious, "comprehensive" legislation, telling senators pro-gun lobbyists had little power over him.