Sentence examples for legislative mistake from inspiring English sources

By Byrd's account, opposing civil rights legislation in the '60s was his greatest legislative mistake, and he would say his eyes were opened later upon seeing a father unable to get water for his young son when the "colored" drinking fountain wasn't working.

The action of the House of Representatives in correcting a cruel legislative mistake that caused immigrants to be deported for minor offenses is laudable.

It voted to correct a legislative mistake that has had cruel consequences for thousands of legally admitted aliens: the retroactive deportation feature of the 1996 Immigration Act.

"It's no secret that every one of my members thinks that Obamacare was a huge legislative mistake," he said.

He also said Republicans continue to believe that Obamacare "was a huge legislative mistake" but acknowledged limitations they face if they pursue full repeal.

There's no evidence that the law was ever used or intended to restrict pharmaceutical cannabis; instead it was a legislative mistake, and in 1915 another revision placed cannabis under the same restriction as other poisons.

But he later said his support had been one of his biggest legislative mistakes, and he soon became an outspoken opponent of the war in Vietnam.

But beyond the big-ticket items, Congress is on the verge of making scores of other legislative mistakes, many without the benefit of extended discussion.

They are the best example of what our nation can do when, in the spirit of our collective rehabilitation, we recognize the error of yesterday's legislative mistakes and commit to being better than we were before.

Mac Taylor, the head of the Legislative Analyst's Office in Sacramento, which issued the latest shortfall projections, said it would be a mistake for legislative leaders to rely on the history of past cyclical economic recovery to rescue the state from this particularly brutal downturn.

"In political legislative managing terms it's a big mistake," he said.