Sentence examples for legislative groundwork for from inspiring English sources

If they thought this likely — as they should have — they should have laid the legislative groundwork for a second round, through reconciliation if necessary, right at the start.

The patriarch of the family was her great-grandfather Nelson W. Aldrich, a United States senator from Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911, who is best known for laying the legislative groundwork for the Federal Reserve.

He strongly supported President Lyndon B. Johnson's antipoverty programs and helped lay the legislative groundwork to establish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The Bundestag's motion approving the restricted import of stem cells now serves as a basis on which to establish legislative groundwork that regulates the import.

They face their first electoral test on Saturday, when the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has scheduled a national referendum on eight constitutional amendments to lay the groundwork for legislative elections in June and a presidential vote in August.

The protest comes as OFA is laying the groundwork for legislative action on climate change, the first step of which involves targeting so-called climate deniers in Congress.

But the White House has proposed eliminating funding for Energy Star and instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to "begin developing legislative options and associated groundwork for transferring ownership and implementation of Energy Star to a non-governmental entity," according to a draft budget the energy news service E&E News obtained this week.

Such legislative changes laid only the groundwork for states to undertake more far-reaching overhauls of educator evaluation systems and low-performing schools that are the heart of the administration's school reform strategy.

To make this national priority more of a central goal of the Administration, the report says, a 4-year effort could force federal agencies to work together, lay out priorities, and do the groundwork for comprehensive legislative proposals.

In a flurry of meetings with legislative leaders, news conferences and briefings, Mr. Paterson began quickly laying the groundwork for when he is formally sworn in as governor on Monday.

The legislative response to Citizens United will be limited, yet it could lay the groundwork for ushering in a novel approach to campaign finance going forward: one that bypasses the Roberts Court's favoritism for the wealthy few by activating the lower- and middle-income many.