Sentence examples for rule lawmakers from inspiring English sources

By rule, lawmakers who use campaign money to pay for legislative expenses must reimburse their campaigns.

Rather than dictate the minutiae of every rule, lawmakers instructed regulators to write some 300 new rules for Wall Street.

In another section of the Volcker rule, lawmakers kindly left it to regulators to work out the meaning of "high-risk assets".

Under Senate rules, lawmakers would need 60 votes to override Mr. Sanders and proceed with a vote.

Influencing Dodd-Frank  |  Two years after passing a spate of financial rules, lawmakers are still tinkering behind the scenes with Dodd-Frank.

Millions could get a raise under Obama administration's new overtime rules Lawmakers have passed legislation that gives families the right to sue the Saudi government for any role it may have played in the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.

Instead of adhering to consistent, evenhanded rules, lawmakers and presidents over the years have withheld or doled out green cards, citizenship and other immigration perks based largely on race, economics, domestic politics and foreign policy.

Reform would give us an opportunity to overhaul the rules: lawmakers should be judged by the electorate and the law, not by their colleagues; and their job should be regulated just as strictly as any other.

Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California, and the committee's incoming chairwoman, said that in addition to the usual sessions on hiring and ethics rules, lawmakers will receive extensive training this year on how to prevent and respond to sexual harassment — a response to a string of scandals that prompted the House to change its rules last year.

The closure of Tuesday's meeting appears to have taken place on ambiguous legal terrain, and questions surrounding the council's actions are complicated by inconsistencies between the open government laws that apply to most District agencies and the rules lawmakers have adopted for themselves.

They passed a rule letting lawmakers raise the debt ceiling automatically with each spending resolution.