Sentence examples for steer legislation from inspiring English sources

Kirchner, who died of a heart attack in 2010, helped to steer legislation through Congress in his first year in office, repealing previous laws that had pardoned those responsible for crimes committed during the dictatorship, expect for the top brass.

When the country joined the then EEC in 1973, the Danish Folketing (parliament) was anxious not to lose its ability to steer legislation, despite the loss of sovereignty to Brussels.

President Trump said Monday that he will declare a national emergency next week to address the opioid epidemic and declined to express confidence in Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa)., his nominee for drug czar, in the wake of revelations that the lawmaker helped steer legislation making it harder to act against giant drug companies.

President Trump nominated Marino to be the nation's drug czar in 2017, but Marino withdrew from consideration following a Washington Post/ 60 Minutes" investigation detailing how the lawmaker helped steer legislation through Congress that weakened the Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to go after drug distributors, even as opioid-related deaths continue to rise.

Earlier this week, The Washington Post and "60 Minutes" reported Marino helped steer legislation making it harder for law enforcers to act against giant drug companies.

To steer legislation their way, the White House is supposed to let it be known what they favor and what they oppose.

He has steered legislation, played a role in making and breaking legislators and legislative leaders, and made a show of being close to Governor Christie, a Republican, at a time when other Democrats would like to undercut the governor.

After nine years of campaigning with Humane Society International, I successfully steered legislation through the European parliament which will ban the import, export and trade in cat and dog fur in all 27 EU member states from January 1 next year.

Faced with a choice between a popular man who mismanaged government and an unpopular woman who has steered legislation through a parliament she does not control, Labor parliamentarians held their nerve.The crushing vote has damaged, probably fatally, the political ambitions of the man who in 2007 led Labor to victory, ending 11 years of conservative Liberal-National coalition government.

Ken Clarke, now a cabinet minister without portfolio but with a place on the National Security Council, will continue to steer the legislation through parliament even though no longer justice secretary.

Mr. Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, periodically summons senators to his office for meetings of the "board of directors," a group of six Democrats and five Republicans mulling ways to steer health legislation through the Senate.