Sentence examples for limit legislation from inspiring English sources
On July 31 , 2011 President Obama and the leadership of both legislative chambers reached a deal on the debt limit legislation.
"I have long believed in the importance of term limits and have sponsored 12-year term limit legislation each term since first being elected to Congress," he said in a statement on Tuesday.
At the same time, some conservative activists are pressing House Republicans to insist on lower overall spending totals, noting that the debt limit legislation established ceilings but does not require that all the money be spent.
While the House and Senate have their votes, Congressional leaders are still talking with President Obama about what should be added to the final debt limit legislation in terms of proposals for future spending cuts and other policy changes.
But Mr. Brooks, one of the freshman Republicans who blazed their way into Congress on the promise to tame the national deficit, did not have good news for his leader, who needed his vote to pass debt limit legislation.
Instead, they ramped up calls for cuts in federal benefit programs and future deficits, items that House Speaker John Boehner has said repeatedly will be part of any talks on debt limit legislation.
Today's negotiations over long-term deficit reduction in tandem with the debt-limit legislation in many ways mirror that effort.
A bill is pending in Albany that would require a referendum in any municipality in the state that wished to change term limits legislation.
Two lawmakers who voted for Mr. Bloomberg's term limits legislation, James Vacca and Maria del Carmen Arroyo, both of the Bronx, immediately expressed their anger over the plans for the seniors programs to Ms. Quinn.
By the end of the hearing, the mayor is expected to sign the term-limits legislation, which was passed by the City Council, into law.
"I don't think lawmakers think that incurring the wrath of voters is all that big a risk," said Ms. Drage, who tracks term-limits legislation.
