In mid-March, Respublika reported legislators' demands that the Nazarbayev clan disclose any offshore bank holdings.
They obtained the record of the vote and telephoned legislators, demanding to know why they had abandoned their constituents.
A no-fault proposal in the early 1990's failed because some legislators demanded provisions that addressed economic inequality, like equalization of lawyers' fees, Ms. Weinstein said.
Some 2.2 million Americans are now incarcerated — about triple the number locked up in the nineteen-eighties, when, in a panic over drugs and urban crime, conservative legislators demanded tougher policies, and liberals who feared being portrayed as weak went along with them.
Four South Korean legislators demanded that China punish a "dozen or so unidentified ruffians" who forced 40 reporters and photographers out of a room in the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing on Wednesday, preventing the legislators from holding a press conference about the conditions of North Korean refugees in China.
Legislators demanded to know why a DNA sample from a man accused in serial killings never made it to crime analysts and what state police and prison officials are doing to make sure swabs from other convicts make it to the lab.
Industry groups and some legislators demanded that academic researchers hand over their data on the health effects of the pollution.
After the initial disclosures, Mexican legislators demanded the country's attorney general investigate the secret facility and any espionage being conducted by the United States.
The Chamber recently wrote a letter to legislators demanding that the limit be raised, accompanied by the spending reforms, sounding very much like Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), although he emphasizes that spending reforms should be enacted before a deal is made.
You can see that truth in financial reform and even in in the debate over health care: The Progressive States Network has organized a letter to Congress signed by more than 1,000 state legislators demanding real reform, and a leading proposal before Congress would allow states to administer their own public plan options.
