Sentence examples for legislative team from inspiring English sources

Paulson's legislative team, drafting the TARP legislation, consulted with Fed officials but stuck to Paulson's view that the bill had to focus on buying assets rather than on making direct capital investments — buying "bad assets" rather than "bad companies".

Mr. Obama ordered a burger, fries and a salad and then gathered with his legislative team, including Jacob J. Lew, the budget director; Rob Nabors, the legislative affairs chief; Nancy Ann DeParle, the deputy chief of staff for policy; Bruce Reed, the vice president's chief of staff; and Gene Sperling, the director of the National Economic Council.

Obama's new legislative team had helped "scrub" the bill, as Hill veterans like to say, for overblown expenditures or pet projects that could be easily caricatured by Republican opponents — the lurking equivalent of the $640 submarine toilet seat that vexed Congress during the Reagan years.

The Obama political and legislative team would learn that, back then, it was necessary to get 66 votes to invoke cloture and kill any filibuster.

On Friday morning, two members of Trump's legislative team huddled just off the House floor with members of Republican Leadership, while members of the whip team worked lawmakers in one-on-one chats on the House floor.

This may be difficult to do, though, as the president has some strong (wrong, in my judgment, but compelling to the president's political and legislative team) political reasons for wanting to do this grand bargain.

When I arrived in Denver in 1993, both papers had political teams and legislative teams.

They said the legislative basketball team was in the same league, so to speak, as a softball team sponsored by a company that makes widgets, and widget workers who are injured in such games, they pointed out, get no workers' compensation.

Over the past year, there have been multiple high-level departures from the legislative affairs team.

Governor Brown's able legislative analysis team should ponder these things before advising him on whether to sign it or chalk it up as this year's "gone too far" items from the legislature.

He used to have a "legislative programs" team, which mostly consisted of one staffer from a congressional office who would help be a liaison between the party and government officials.