Sentence examples for minor bill from inspiring English sources

Ask him about a minor bill, and he would tell you its contents and its number on the calendar.

If it's a minor bill or one they don't want anyone to pay attention to, they won't have any media in at all.

In 12 years in Congress, he managed to get only one minor bill passed, on behalf of a donor, and he doesn't work well with people.

Near the end of Tyler's term in office, on March 3, 1845, Congress overrode his veto of a minor bill relating to revenue cutters.

Every now and then, Democrats quietly join them, hoping that a minor bill circling through the House Financial Services Committee will be overlooked in the grand legislative debates over taxes, health care and foreign policy.

Unless you are a committee chairman or the committee's ranking member of the minority party (currently Republicans in the Senate), Ornstein told us, you are unlikely to have your name attached to a bill, unless it is a minor bill.

The legislature passed hundreds of minor bills as well.

The JOBS Act started as a cluster of minor bills that had bipartisan support and little opposition.

The Senate has been unable to find the 60 votes needed to pass anything but minor bills.

Passing hundreds of minor bills doesn't do us much good if legislators allow the government to shut down.

The House calendar shows that members are expected to vote on the "suspension calendar," generally minor bills like naming a post office.