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And earlier this month, Uber worked with Washington, D.C., to pass a legislative framework for "digital dispatch" for black cars that should serve as model legislation for the nation.

A final commission vote would head off efforts by Representative Henry Bonilla, also a Texas Republican, to pass a legislative rider putting off the rule's consideration.

While Congress could pass a legislative fix, Republicans control both the House and the Senate — making it disingenuous at best to finger the opposing party, as the president has repeatedly done.

"This temporary delay will provide several more days for Congress to pass a legislative fix and prevent gridlock at our borders," said Senator Spencer Abraham, Republican of Michigan, who wrote the stopgap legislation.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), along with 12 other Senate Republicans, wrote to the Justice Department calling for a pause on separations until Congress can pass a legislative fix.

She must decide if Holyrood should pass a legislative consent motion (LCM) allowing Westminster to go ahead with the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, a key piece of Brexit legislation that repatriates powers from Brussels.

The Scottish Parliament can give legislative consent over devolved matters back to the UK Parliament by passing a Legislative Consent Motion if United Kingdom-wide legislation is considered more appropriate for a certain issue.

It can be easy to see, for example, that a president has (or has not) passed a legislative program, negotiated a treaty or rallied the nation in a time of crisis.

He said he had told the vice president that, despite the caviling of many Republican members of Congress, there was no point in passing a legislative plan unless it was better for the party than the court's proposed boundaries.

And when Congress last year passed a legislative amendment barring cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of detainees in American custody, Mr. Bush -- who had threatened a veto but ultimately backed down -- tacked a "signing statement" onto the measure, asserting that he could interpret the amendment as he deemed fit with his constitutional authority as commander in chief.

The CDC with $5 billion in funds to give away annually—has avoided the issue since 1996, when Republicans in Congress, spurred by the National Rifle Association, passed a legislative amendment stipulating that none of the agency's budget can be used to "advocate or promote gun control".