Sentence examples for legislative tools from inspiring English sources

Only 40percentt of utility commissioners thought they had the regulatory and legislative tools to prevent a California-type situation from occurring in their states.

And after battling the imperial presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the Senate was armed with new legislative tools, including the War Powers Act, the Budget Control Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

Mr. Reid has the legislative tools to push past a blockade on the motion to proceed, and get the bill to the floor (though whether he will use them, given his continuing failure to curb filibuster abuse, is another story).

So, as we celebrate the fact that the fight against slavery is part of the global development agenda, we should take a moment to reflect on how far we have come, the awareness that has been created and the legislative tools now available to us.

A coalition of budget watchdog groups says that in the absence of the age-old practice of Congressional earmarks, the legislative tools that let members attach pet projects to bills, lawmakers appear to have found a backdoor method: special funds in spending and authorization bills that allow them to direct money to projects in their states.

The proposed zones can be useful in the legislative tools for implementation of energy conservation measures and sustainable building practices.

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The changes will surely disappoint reformers who were pushing for more sweeping revisions to rein in the filibuster, once a rarely used legislative tool.

As Talking Points Memo's Brian Beutler pointed out last year, "Budget resolutions don't have the force of law, and they aren't the legislative tool that mandates what the government can and can not spend".

However, as partisan deadlock has grown, it has become an increasingly attractive legislative tool because it is protected from a filibuster in the Senate and therefore needs only fifty, rather than sixty, votes to pass.

The first order of business would be a bruising battle in a divided Congress over fast-track authority, the legislative tool that Mr. Bush will need to negotiate a comprehensive trade deal.