Sentence examples for legislative members from inspiring English sources

At ALEC, corporate and legislative members gather behind closed doors to craft and pre-vote on legislation that is later introduced in state houses across the land with no disclosure of its ALEC roots.

Until that time, the crushing debt should keep our legislative members in line.

On March 15 , 2016 legislative members elected Htin Kyaw to serve as the country's new president He was inaugurated on March 30.

The creation of the state counselor role for Suu Kyi rankled the military, whose legislative members denounced the bill that provided for the new position as being unconstitutional and refused to take part in the vote on the bill.

Big Oil thus appears to be calling the shots for Republican Party leaders at their highest levels in all three branches of US government – the executive (presidential nominee), judicial (attorneys general), and legislative (members of Congress).

Legislators serve four-year terms: two members of the Senate are elected from each province-level entity (called an "administrative-territorial unit") by all legislative members of that unit, with the exception of several appointed by the president; members of the Assembly are elected from population-based constituencies by universal adult suffrage.

Altogether, legislative member items amount to about $170 million a year.

Mr. Cuomo said that his office's tougher oversight of legislative member items — discretionary spending often given to politically-favored groups — was thwarting wasteful spending.

About 35 other states have similar laws, according to legislative staff members.

This lessens the chance that all legislative council members will be elected by universal suffrage in 2020.

Recent months have brought the disclosure of pay raises to hundreds of legislative staff members, many already making six figures.