In Utah, Karen Morgan, a state representative, sponsored three changes in state law to try to make uniform policies work.
When Karen Beyer, then a Pennsylvania state representative, sponsored a bill in 2007 to cut financing to online schools, about 700 people turned out for one hearing.
Design: This investigation consisted of two studies: (1) a telephone survey to curricular office workers in September 1998; and (2) a self-completed questionnaire to representatives of sponsoring departments in July 1999.
"It's like a tidal wave," said Ward Franz, the state representative who sponsored Missouri's legislation.
One of them, Representative David E. Bonior, sponsored the House bill that would ban it.
Fred Brown, the state representative who sponsored the bill, wants similar cuts at all the state's 18 four-year colleges.
In 2001, Representative Sam Farr sponsored legislation that would have provided $350 million in loans to modernize the country's power grid.
"We'd sit there and talk about how we got creamed for the day," said Alderman Deborah L. Graham, a former state representative who sponsored some gun-related bills with Ms. Kelly.
"Before they came out with these, how did we grow up?" asked Lenny T. Winkler, a nurse and state representative who sponsored Connecticut's new law.
When Mr. Riner's wife, Claudia, was a state representative, she sponsored a bill in 1978 requiring that classrooms display a copy of the Ten Commandments.
