Sentence examples for substantive legislation from inspiring English sources

For Schumer, filling the gap between electoral success and substantive legislation has been elusive.

Neither man introduced substantive legislation to sanction Ukrainian leaders when they got back to Washington.

Congress is tied up in knots, offering voters plenty of partisan bile, but little in the way of substantive legislation.

"Reconciliation was never intended for substantive legislation, policy legislation," Mr. Conrad said, "so there are all kinds of hurdles to writing major legislation in reconciliation".

Links represent instances when senators have voted similarly on substantive legislation on at least 100 occasions during the same congressional session.

The tactic is "not the best way to write major substantive legislation" that should have bipartisan buy-in, Mr. Conrad said in an interview.

Skeptics worried that it would take a significant cyberattack to rally Congress to unite across party lines in support of substantive security legislation.

He has backed little in the way of substantive bipartisan legislation, earning a reputation for putting ideological purity ahead of deal-making.

Representative John Baldacci, a Maine Democrat, said today he would vote against the measure "absent serious and substantive" parallel legislation that permits Congressional oversight of China's compliance with trade and other international agreements.

A related decision, Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor (2010), apparently rejected the contention that Article 9(1) entitles courts to examine the substantive fairness of legislation, though it asserted a judicial discretion to reject bills of attainder and absurd or arbitrary legislation.

The mayoral initiatives are often the most substantive pieces of legislation to survive the process.