Sentence examples for process lawmakers from inspiring English sources

It is a quiet, tedious process lawmakers are engaged in.

That's according to a new Brennan Center analysis of gerrymandering — the process lawmakers use to draw legislative districts for their own partisan advantage.

During the Senate confirmation process, lawmakers also investigated claims of domestic violence that were made by his ex-wife and later recanted.

By steering clear of laws that distort the bargaining process, lawmakers can help courts answer difficult questions, such as whether genes, software, and business methods constitute patentable subject matter, whether patents in the life sciences should control inventions that have yet to be discovered, and how to resolve the battles between pharmaceutical companies and generics.

WASHINGTON — In his latest crusade against the process lawmakers use to finance home-state projects known as earmarks, Senator John S. McCain took to the Senate floor this week with an arsenal of numbers, sharply criticizing the $410 billion omnibus spending bill as 2,967 pages of text, teeming with 9,000 earmarks.

For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants — and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the process — lawmakers from coal-producing states appear committed to keeping coal as the nation's primary producer of power.

And a proposal to overhaul the state budget process, which lawmakers announced with fanfare just hours before this year's deadline passed without a budget, has stalled.

They are mired in a House-Senate conference committee, an important but largely secret part of the legislative process, where lawmakers try to work out their differences.

The legalization of same-sex marriage has primarily come through the political process, with lawmakers and voters approving it in six states in just the past year.

So the House and Senate voted to change the budget-making process, and lawmakers gave themselves a deadline extension to get their fiscal house in order.

The revelation sheds new light on the secretive process that lawmakers use to settle workplace complaints against them and their aides using public funds.