Sentence examples for legislative wish from inspiring English sources

Legislative wish lists are drying up and blowing away.

The report, "All Risk, No Reward for Taxpayers and Ratepayers," was a response to a legislative wish list developed by the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group.

Like a married couple after a bad fight, Mr. Lott and Mr. Daschle began patching things up, trading olive branches in the form of legislative wish lists for the remaining days before the August recess.

"A legislative wish to take advantage of the 'safe harbor' would counsel against any construction of the Election Code that Congress might deem to be a change in the law," today's opinion said.

A1 Courting High Technology Richard A. Gephardt, the Democratic leader in the House, embraced pieces of the industry's legislative wish list but glossed over the issue of trade relations with China.

With the political loyalties of the high-technology community still up for grabs, Representative Richard A. Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, intensified his courtship of the industry today by embracing pieces of its legislative wish list.

A state-of-the-union message is, after all, an opportunity for a boastful self-assessment and for a budgetary and legislative wish-list which may or may not be fulfilled.

Reining in ballooning pension costs topped the legislative wish-list for a parade of municipal leaders around the state, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who said Mr. Cuomo "has got to get an A-plus" for persuading lawmakers to resist pressure from labor unions and approve the changes.

Almost always, the memorandums, known as call sheets, were careful to avoid any mention of executive branch actions or donors' legislative wishes.

On the same November day that Schapiro spelled out her legislative wish-list to Congress, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff threw out the SEC's proposed $285 million settlement with Citigroup Inc, calling the monetary fine "pocket change".

Also, he was frustrated at being a member of the legislative minority and wished to devote his time to his family and law practice.