Sentence examples for little legislative from inspiring English sources

Its participation will make little legislative difference, and the army remains very much in charge.

She left little legislative trace during her time in the Senate.

The government, as this reshuffle has underlined, has little legislative business or ambition left in it.

It's like a little legislative West Side Story in Congress these days, minus the dancing.

But the Bush plan had little legislative support, and it soon died.

Congress used to exercise only loose control over the government budget, and the President was able to borrow money and spend money with little legislative oversight.

But polls have shown this is unlikely to be the case, and Mr. Christie has campaigned relatively little for legislative candidates.

The move also reflects that little major legislative action is expected this year as the two parties remain far apart on spending and tax policy.

But Congress is at a distinct disadvantage: once an Administration has decided that it won't play along with a congressional investigation, there's very little the legislative branch can do.

And pretending that defeat didn't happen, and that a little more legislative brinksmanship will bring the country round, is a good way to postpone the day when Republicans begin to actually win tax debates again into a distant and fast-receding future.

While the two senators concede that their amendment to the energy bill is likely to fail, they said they thought the debate would help generate political pressure on an issue that had prompted volumes of political discussion but little federal legislative action.