Mr Waxman pointed to founding-era dictoonariestakestake his claim that "legislature" means something other than the institution bearing that title.
They added to the pressure on Governor Gray Davis and the state legislature to do something to avoid the huge financial damage and threat to life that could be caused by long power cuts in the summer.
That would probably come as part of a large fiscal stimulus package, in the form of fatter payments for Medicaid, a programme run jointly by the states and the federal government.Of course, it wouldn't be too much to ask for California's legislature to do something about the budget crisis, too.
The average LGBT person in Michigan is sick and tired of waiting for the legislature to do something.
It is unusual, he noted, for a local legislature to do something like this it is typically left to states or police departments to grant more rights to suspects, like reading of their Miranda Rights or the taping of interviews.
"The mayor herself does not have access to the information of what happened [because of LEOBOR]," Love said, adding that he hopes "the national coverage will pressure the state legislature to do something".
Inslee's plan is the most straightforward and most familiar, because he wants the state legislature to create something that progressives have wanted as part of the Affordable Care Act all along.
The Broward Sheriff's Office launched a campaign to get the state legislature to do something about these crimes, and in 2010, then Gov. Charlie Crist (R) signed a bill making Florida the largest state -- and one of the first in the country -- to protect the homeless under its hate-crime statute.
It is hard to see a Republican-controlled Congress pushing through such a measure, or the requisite number of small states or local legislatures acquiescing in something that radically reduces their power.
Their sacking looked spiteful, and by reversing it the legislature has probably done something to keep the executive honest.
