Sentence examples for legislative sausage-making from inspiring English sources

No more legislative sausage-making.

The holidays are just around the corner, and the preparatory legislative sausage-making on Capitol Hill is in full swing.

It's a noble cause, but it's fair to ask that in return, the committees serve as open forums that do serious policy analysis, not just legislative sausage-making.

As both sides declared victory Friday, Democrats provided a colorful account of the legislative sausage making.

We are getting to that gritty grimy disgusting part of the legislative sausage making on health care where the fight is less about what shining principles we will achieve, and more about the best possible negotiating strategy for getting the best possible details in the bill.

A central part of their strategy has been to tangle the legislative works, resulting in both sides' resorting to the most arcane legislative maneuvers, displaying sausage-making at its grubbiest.

The Republican-led Congress is wallowing toward a garishly spectacular finale: a $284 billion omnibus spending bill, a haphazardly stitched hulk that gives a bad name to the usual legislative metaphors about sausage-making and bauble-laden Christmas trees.

Our elected representatives should, as part of the "sausage-making" legislative process, ferret out which lobby influenced what parts of the proposal -- who added what piece of pork, gristle or spice to the sausage and why.

So now you won't have to pay through the nose to binge-watch the next season of House of Cards -- unless, of course, legislative loopholes are added during the sausage-making process, a la... House of Cards.

Noting that Wal-Mart is the major business force inside her state, they added that this is another step in the sausage-making process that leads to legislation.

The process of delivering health care legislation no longer returns the comforting stench of sausage-making and now more closely resembles a UFC event in the proverbial Octagon.