"All of our hearings are held with some legislative purpose in mind," he said.
Legislative bodies, never mind wider publics, are also unable to scrutinize or hold to account decision making where there is a monopoly of technocratic elites in policy making [85].
Never mind the legislative details.
What makes the legislative assault still more mind-boggling to Edelman is the fact that until quite recently it had evoked so little response from President Clinton, her close friend and sometime ally.
Both Mr. Reagan and Mr. Clinton delivered their final State of the Union messages with the fate of their vice presidents in mind, promoting legislative agendas that amounted to campaign platforms for their heirs.
In December , 2001 after the fall of the Taliban, President Bush asked Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat who was then the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, to draft a legislative proposal for winning the minds of young people around the Muslim world.
By George Packer In December , 2001 after the fall of the Taliban, President Bush asked Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat who was then the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, to draft a legislative proposal for winning the minds of young people around the Muslim world.
The remarks appeared to address two legislative initiatives much on the minds of the audience.
In the argot of Capitol Hill, "reconciliation" is a term of art for those catch-all economic packages which Congress sometimes passes when it's pretending to put the nation's fiscal house in order (packages that can be achieved only after a series of legislative "crosswalks," which means...never mind).
This is fundamentally a history of hearts and minds, rather than of legislative bills and battles.
