Sentence examples for parallel legislation from inspiring English sources

In a sign that the administration and its Congressional supporters need more inducements to recruit fence-sitters, Mr. Archer, the House Republican, reversed his earlier position and said he would consider parallel legislation to the trade bill.

After weeks of test-marketing in Congress, Mr. Levin said his proposal for parallel legislation to the trade bill could recruit enough fence-sitting Democrats to tip the balance in favor of the administration.

Mr. Levin is fine-tuning parallel legislation that would create a Congressional-executive branch commission to pressure Beijing to improve its human rights record and labor standards, and to abide by commercial agreements.

"Many of our colleagues are concerned that if the commission moves only in parallel legislation that it could falter and not become law," said Doug Bereuter, Nebraska Republican who co-sponsored the proposal.

Representative John Baldacci, a Maine Democrat, said today he would vote against the measure "absent serious and substantive" parallel legislation that permits Congressional oversight of China's compliance with trade and other international agreements.

The White House has been working with Representative Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat, on "parallel legislation" that would set up a watchdog Congressional commission to review Chinese trade and human rights policies and perhaps recommend sanctions against Beijing within the limits of organization rules.

That order parallels legislation drafted by Patrick C. Williams, a county legislator, who accused the police lineup organizers of racism.

More than a dozen drug-related bills approved this week parallel similar legislation advanced in the Senate.

However, many countries struggle with legislative reform and therefore many practitioners advocate the promotion of diversion and alternatives in parallel to legislative reform, even in the absence of specific enabling legislation.

So Congressional leaders are looking for ways to commit both the House and the Senate to changes — such as better subsidies to make insurance more affordable — that could be approved through parallel "budget reconciliation" legislation that could be approved by a simple majority in both the Senate and House.

Vermont historian Samuel Williams called it "an act which for its savage barbarity is probably without parallel in the legislation of any civilized country".