Sentence examples for legislative drafting from inspiring English sources
"Sometimes legislators look at our legislation and then go to their legislative drafting shop".
That tension was clear at a legislative drafting session, where Republicans who opposed the legislation sought to scale it back sharply, while also decrying the high pay at many troubled institutions.
Had this legislation not been rushed through in a day, perhaps the embarrassingly-poor legislative drafting discussed above could have been avoided.
Republicans have not held any committee hearings or legislative drafting sessions for the bill, and Democrats are shut out.
Not because Congress is too unpoetic to use synecdoche, but because that literary device is incompatible with the need for precision in legislative drafting.
The principal instrument with which the Government has attempted to control legislative drafting has, so far, been the Instructions on the Drafting of Government Proposals.
The legislative draft filled in some details of a plan sketched out for Congress on March 27 by the Pentagon's top civilian Special Operations policy official, Michael A. Sheehan.
Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, proposed such a tax this week as part of his long-awaited legislative draft.
The Shultz letter, dated Jan . 30but only now being circulated in business and legislative circles, was in response to a legislative draft from the Business Roundtable Task Force on International Trade and Investment, which has influenced some of the House and Senate proposals that the Administration does not like.
The first applied all recent English public laws to Ireland; the second and more famous one subjected the meetings and legislative drafts of the Irish Parliament to the control of the English king and of his English council (but not of the English Parliament).
Rather than allowing national parliaments to block EU legislation, the compromise only included a rule under which the Council had to reassess any legislative drafts that sufficiently many national Parliaments viewed to be in violation of the so-called principle of subsidiarity.
