Sentence examples for legislative alternatives from inspiring English sources

In the O'Neill era, when an important issue was being debated, there were often several legislative alternatives.

Legislative alternatives to Lieberman-Warner, including a widely condemned bill drafted by Senator George Voinovich, have also created pressure on fence-sitters unsure of their support for Democratic proposals.

Republicans in both chambers are offering "economically responsible" legislative alternatives - even if they aren't serious - that could provide easy exits for nervous members and campaign tools for swing district candidates.

There have been God knows how many votes to repeal or weaken the A.C.A. in Paul Ryan's House of Representatives over that six-year time period, but the number of legislative alternatives to Obamacare put forth by the GOP can be counted on zero fingers.

On March 3, 1845, shortly after signing the legislation, President Tyler preempted Polk and forwarded the House legislative alternative to Texas, offering immediate annexation to the republic.

By Thursday, a legislative alternative was circulating, one centered on federal insurance for mortgage assets combined with tax cuts on investment gains.

The legislative alternative, combined with anger at their vastly reduced power on Capitol Hill and fueled by an internal power struggle, has made House Republicans suddenly relevant again.

He then criticized the opposition Socialist Party for promoting the demonstrations without a viable legislative alternative and for calling students, whose weeklong school holiday starts on Friday, into the streets.

From Staple: You're probably right in thinking that carbon taxes will enjoy some renewed attention as Congress prepares to enter the home stretch on cap-and-trade…[but] I doubt very much that this will change the outcome of the current debate because the tax advocates have yet to table a serious (i.e. workable) legislative alternative on Capitol Hill.

Notably, it includes the "individual mandate," which 19 Republicans first proposed in 1993 as a legislative alternative to President Clinton's healthcare reform bill.

This week, President Bush suggested that my legislative alternative to this summer's hastily-enacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform, the "Protect America Act," would take away important tools from our intelligence community.