These are relevant to safety and have large economic and legislative consequences.
According to a new CED poll conducted by Zogby International, nine out of ten business leaders surveyed said their contributions were aimed at influencing the legislative process, avoiding adverse legislative consequences, or promoting a certain ideological position.
The ACC must continue to sell the possibility, however remote, of cleaning up the maritime mess created by plastics, or face the ultimate consequence: legislative bans, environmental lawsuits and consumer boycotts that may turn off the lucrative petrochemical pumps putting out the source of the pollution.
The long summer vacation of British parliamentarians is not a reward for their legislative labours but a consequence of the Great Stink of 1858, in which a Thames choked with sewage and refuse became so vile that parliament's windows were hung with sheets soaked with bleach.
"Councillor Lambert was saying that, in his opinion, the children are not properly protected, and that this lack of protection is a consequence of legislative and systemic defects".
Instead of reporting on bureaucratic abuses of individual rights, Mr. Johnston covered the consequences of legislative attempts to rein in the agency.
Unions had hoped to teach politicians that there are consequences to legislative union-busting, and they were willing to spend far more than they ever hoped to win back at the table to send that message.
The election result is likely to give the less-investor-friendly party complete executive and legislative control, with unknown consequences.
Keep after your legislative members with the consequences of "Silence"!
Perhaps the most damaging consequence of the legislative box is that it left Mr. Obama, who still regards himself as an outsider and a reformer, looking like a Congressional insider — which is about the last thing voters, and independent voters in particular, wanted him to be.
