Sentence examples for state congresses from inspiring English sources

It wasn't because they got better at raising revenues in fact, during the same period they slipped from generating about a third of their income to just a tenth, with most of the rest coming from the federal government.In spending this handout, governors are accountable only to their own state congresses.

Protesters also attacked the state congress with rocks and eggs.

The state congress of Tabasco will appoint an interim governor, and new elections must be held within a year.

India's state congress chief Bhupesh Baghel today said that Paikra should apologise for his "irresponsible statement", according to The Economic Times.

Yucatan's state congress obeyed the electoral tribunal and chose a new council, but the opposition said that it was just as loaded as the first one.

"Precisely due to this situation [of allegations], I have decided today to ask the state congress for leave from the position of state governor," Duarte said.

Word spread today that the governor would send the bill back to the state congress for further study; the action amounts to a veto, his aides said.

On April 16th dissident teachers forced the state congress in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, to debate proposals that challenge some of the reform's central pillars, such as the creation of a national institution to test teachers.

And even if he did, the state congress, also elected on July 5th, will have a majority hostile to him.So the PRI can at least console itself at its loss of Zacatecas.

They claim that only the PRI-controlled state congress, not the federal court, can appoint state election commissioners, though Mexico's Constitution does in fact give the court that power.

A8 Mexico Anti-Abortion Bill The governor of Guanajuato has sent back to the state congress for further study a bill that would have made the state the only one to extend the ban on abortions to cases of rape.