Sentence examples for legislative avenues from inspiring English sources

A week before his hearings on gun violence, Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced a modest measure Wednesday that may presage the sorts of legislative avenues that could find support among both Republicans and Democrats.

Holder's impact on legislative avenues of reform might be minimal: If there's anyone less popular with House Republicans than President Obama, it's his attorney general.

WASHINGTON -- After exhausting normal legislative avenues, the Obama administration has prepared a draft executive order that would enact some campaign finance reform provisions.

While it would not appear to have a chance of passing the Democrat-controlled Senate, and President Obama is opposed, it could provide a legislative avenue to increasing the debt limit as it makes it way through Congress.

"There was talk about trying to force declassification through the legislative avenue that is there, but I think the time has run out for that," Heinrich, a staunch advocate of the document's release, said last week.

Ellick didn't want to give too much away (a public announcement is expected sometime late today or tomorrow), but he did say, "I basically have an idea that I want to have us all come around and how to take all this energy and put it into a goal that is both moral -- reframing it as a spiritual issue -- but also gives us a concrete, legislative avenue to something.

Like most of the conservative leaders I spoke to, Reed is still not sure what kind of legislative or political avenues the Christian right will pursue to get around the federal marriage ruling.

The president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Thomas J. Donahue, pledged to keep opposing the health care measure "through all available avenues — regulatory, legislative, legal and political".

Reforms in these areas are possible regardless of the makeup of the Court, he added, pointing to state courts and legislative bodies as possible avenues for change.

Reforms in these areas are possible regardless of the court's makeup, he adds, pointing to state courts and legislative bodies as possible avenues.

"We're going to give them every avenue, legal and legislative, that might be available to them.