Sentence examples for massive legislation from inspiring English sources

Republicans were able to pass this massive legislation with just 51 votes.

Some Republicans are urging lawmakers to focus on other proposals inside the massive legislation.

On Thursday, the White House also issued a lengthy release titled "The American People Win as President Donald J. Trump's Priorities are Funded," with a long list of specific items in the massive legislation.

Rather than passing that massive legislation, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md). told reporters that the House will take up a stopgap measure Wednesday, which would continue funding for most federal agencies at 2010 levels.

The massive legislation — which creates a new consumer-protection watchdog, empowers the government to wind down large failing financial companies and establishes oversight of the vast financial derivatives market, among other measures — has been under constant attack by Republicans since it became law in July.

It does not take massive legislation to do this.

John D. Podesta, a former senior Leahy aide who went on to be White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, said Mr. Leahy does not fit neatly in with outsize Democratic figures like Edward M. Kennedy and Robert Byrd, who saw their lengthy Senate tenures as opportunities to shape society through "massive social legislation" and permanent stamps on the institution itself.

For those who dispute that effective, common-sense gun control is the foundation for curbing gun violence, I again refer to the unimpeachable evidence from Australia where massive gun legislation, spearheaded by Prime Minister John Howard against stiff resistance, purged the country of military weaponry following the 1996 mass murder of 35 people by a lone gunman.

"The lesson is you can't do it in one massive piece of legislation," he said, adding that new legislation cannot be passed until Americans are convinced that that illegal immigration is under control.

Congress passed the massive Dodd-Frank legislation.

During the three centuries of its existence, this council enacted a massive amount of legislation, though much grew obsolete and became a dead letter.