Sentence examples for response lawmakers from inspiring English sources

In response, lawmakers for the first time agreed to disclose how they make their money.

In response, lawmakers passed the 1878 Posse Comitatus act to make it a crime to use the army to enforce laws.

[C4.] FROSTY RESPONSE Lawmakers and Bush administration officials gave a chilly reception to a plan to let the Treasury Department lend directly to homeowners to help ease the housing crisis.

The Senate's No. 2 Republican, Jon Kyl of Arizona, is the latest to weigh in strongly, saying Tuesday that the public response lawmakers were seeing over the summer break should persuade Democrats to scrap their approach and start over.

Angry with what they consider a bungled response, lawmakers, health experts and environmental groups have called on the Environmental Protection Agency to order the city to expand water testing, speed the replacement of lead pipes and take more aggressive short-term measures to reduce lead levels.

In response, lawmakers in Nova Scotia passed a comprehensive law to cut down on online abuse in Canada.

Predictably, the loss of trust in corporate oversight has produced two inevitable responses: lawmakers and regulators push stronger regulation, while activist shareholders strive to exercise greater influence over corporate governance.

In response, the lawmakers voted to repeal the tax.

In response, Texas lawmakers voted last year to transfer custody of the Alamo to the state's General Land Office.

He added, in response to lawmakers' questions, that the bureau needed more agents to address financial fraud and crime related to drug trafficking.

Mr. Paterson worried aloud at his press briefing that he sometimes gets a "delusional" response from lawmakers and others who do not see the urgency.