Sentence examples for successive congresses from inspiring English sources

Successive Congresses have failed to update the dollar limitations of the public financing law, inviting private donors to fully regain the upper hand in this presidential sweepstakes.

Successive Congresses and administrations raised the top rate on ordinary income (which is now 35 percent) and then reduced the top rate on capital gains (now 15 percent).

There's no incentive as long as American presidents and successive Congresses dole out billions of dollars each year in aid without attaching necessary conditions.

But successive Congresses rejected reform bills — cowering as usual before the gun lobby, which deemed it an "arbitrary" interference with its never-to-be-trumped right to bear arms.

By this he means keeping it intact through successive Congresses, administrations and NASA chiefs, who may have different visions, and also in the face of an increasingly vocal lobby that feels the private sector is being overlooked, visionwise.A little science on the side, sir Perhaps, though, whether the vision can be realised or not is beside the point.

All successive Congresses have, in essence, replied: "No, we're rectifying unconstitutional behavior by the executive branch, since we're the ones who are supposed to declare war".

At the first international Esperanto congress at Boulogne, France (1905), and at successive annual congresses in various European cities, Zamenhof delivered a number of memorable addresses, but he renounced formal leadership of the Esperanto movement at Kraków, Poland, in 1912.

Successive administrations and Congresses have basically sidestepped that question for many, many years.

America's black incarceration rate had been steadily climbing since 1980, as successive presidents and Congresses passed laws related to the "war on drugs".

Under pressure to respond to the problem of stagnating incomes, successive presidents and Congresses opened a flood of mortgage credit.In 1992 the government reduced capital requirements at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two huge sources of housing finance.

In commercial affairs, the trade-offs often look favourable, but it is important that the administration continue to bang its drum for them.Exceptionalism for the powerfulThe same trade-offs arise when human rights, military autonomy and environmental rules are involved, but successive administrations and Congresses have been less willing to make them.