Sentence examples for legislative utility from inspiring English sources

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Even in the slumbering luddite of the U.S. Congress, Representative Darrell Issa was able to launch a novel crowdsourcing legislative utility, Project Madison, because he and his staff could code a rough version of it without worry about hiring developers.

On top working on legislation to make federal spending transparent, making room for open source software in the government, and helping to liberate congressional data, he's now heading up the Open Government Foundation to spread Project Madison, a crowdsourcing legislative utility, throughout Congress.

As an engineer and former President of the Consumer Electronics Association, he personally helped develop Congress's first legislative crowdsourcing utility, Project Madison.

The Department of Agriculture has temporarily stopped leasing new beds as it studies legal ramifications of An Act Concerning the Protection of Long Island Sound, which passed during the last state legislative session following utility company plans to run an electrical cable and gas line across the Sound.

Enron officials reject the notion that their donations are meant to influence legislation, and they note that, in aggregate, their most significant legislative opponents, electric utilities, give far more money to federal candidates.

"It's unfair for utilities to ask for more money to upgrade their operations," argued Janee Briesemeister, AARP's senior legislative counsel and utilities expert.

If that false premise can be sold, a legislative mandate compelling utilities to level the playing field between fossil fuels and solar power, wind, and other relatively clean renewable energy sources will never get off the ground.

Mr. Bush's tenure in Texas has been beneficial to Enron: he backed several of the company's most important legislative initiatives, including electric utility deregulation and limits on civil lawsuits.

It might also provide taxpayers some form of stock option so they would profit if shares in those utilities rebound, legislative leaders said.

A20 Suit Over Utility Pricing California's Democratic legislative leaders filed a suit seeking to force the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to limit wholesale power prices on public safety grounds.