Sentence examples for legislative desks from inspiring English sources
It demands that each of us -- from dorm rooms and legislative desks, church pews and corner offices, city blocks and country roads -- ask if we're okay living like this? Can we dazedly watch our morning news knowing that the night before, on an idyllic college campus, a young woman was raped and encouraged to stay silent for fear of social retribution?
The bill's next stop on its legislative journey is the desk of District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray who has articulated support for marijuana decriminalization in his municipality.
But that number changes daily as bills move between legislative committees and to governors' desks.
The legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) has passed both legislative chambers and is sitting on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown, an Oakland resident and two-term mayor here.
The West Covina Democrat spent much of the final day of the 2016 legislative session sitting quietly at his desk after returning to Sacramento last week in the wake of a domestic violence restraining order in July.
The Paterson administration will ask the Assembly to delay sending the bill to the governor's desk, officials said, and will try to devise a new version of the legislation before a special legislative session next month.
And, in a warning shot to the legislative branch, he suggested that proposed legislation to create the CFPA might not pass the president's desk if it becomes too watered down in the process.
The New York Times reported that Walker asked legislative leadership to deliver the bill to his desk during a meeting in his office earlier this year.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 has passed through the state legislative organs and will now head to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown to be enacted.
After passage in the two legislative chambers, the bill went to the governor's desk for a signature.
BEFORE anyone can reach the desk where State Senator William L. Gormley's secretary sits in his legislative office in the Hamilton Mall, he runs smack into a wall covered with dozens of personal photographs.
