Sentence examples for legislative officer from inspiring English sources

She is a senior legislative officer in Washington for the Department of Labor.

(Cheney made ingenious use of the constitutional quirk that makes the vice president both an executive and a legislative officer).

But, then, if the vice president is a legislative officer, how can he wield the vast executive powers that Mr. Cheney has exercised, including orchestrating and supervising a warrantless wiretapping program?

— JACK F. MATLOCK Jr.., the ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991 and the author of "Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended" The claim by Dick Cheney that he was exempt from certain disclosure requirements because the vice president was a "legislative officer" has been greeted with outrage.

Currently, "we don't have any training requirements," said Stacy A. Mayer, O'Malley's chief legislative officer.

"I'm concerned about all of them and secretaries of state, legislative officers, mayors, sheriffs," Mr. Steele said.

Eventually, the Senate refused to recognize vice presidents as significant legislative officers, adopting rules that prevented them from addressing the Senate, except by unanimous consent.

In recent years, I've met with multiple legislative officers from both sides of the aisle to discuss animal testing for cosmetics, and I can tell you that no one I've talked with, regardless of political party, thinks animals should suffer for beauty products.

"I do hold him directly responsible for the demise of Nassau County's fiscal condition and the taint that has applied itself unjustifiably to other good public officials in the Republican Party," says Bruce A. Blakeman, a Republican and former legislative presiding officer who was swept from office last fall.

Alan R. Kooney, the legislative budget officer, said the agency stood by its prediction.

Paul Tonna, a Republican from Huntington and the legislative presiding officer, defended the decision to continue the clothing tax exemption, which he had earlier favored rescinding.