Sentence examples for pass lawmakers from inspiring English sources

Should it pass, lawmakers must still meet to find ways to close the entire budget gap.

After it became apparent that the two ballot initiatives were going to pass, lawmakers from other states, including Arizona and Washington, contacted Handgun Control, seeking help with writing bills that would resemble the initiatives in Colorado and Oregon.

— They wander the marble halls, day after day, hollering at passing lawmakers.

Once the Senate blueprint is passed, lawmakers will return in April and try to resolve the vastly different visions of taxing and spending.

Before New York's new gun control law was even passed, lawmakers were acknowledging that they would have to pass a second measure to clean up some of its errors.

It was Monday, the day Mr. McDonald took his oath of office, and Mr. Parment sat in the rear foyer of the Assembly chamber, where passing lawmakers stopped to rib him about changes to their districts.

With the currency crackdown passed, lawmakers were willing to let debate start on granting Obama what is known as trade promotion authority, voting 65 to 33 to proceed.

Tom Hucker's 16-month-old son, Sam, who last year spent opening day lying on his father's desk as an infant, this year reclined in the delegates' lounge and gave fist bumps to passing lawmakers.

In 2000, when the CHIMP Act passed, lawmakers recognized that chimpanzees deserve a better life after their use in research and, that retirement to sanctuary is less costly than keeping them in labs.

Both need to pass before lawmakers go home.

If the initiative were to pass, Florida lawmakers could draft new voucher legislation based on the new language, they said.