Sentence examples for taking up legislation from inspiring English sources

We're taking up legislation in a more orderly fashion.

Aides to the House Republican whip, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, said they detected no urgency in taking up legislation.

House Republican leaders said they would consider taking up legislation on generic drugs after the August recess.

"Instead of taking up legislation to help families that desperately need health care, many of them going across the border to Mexico to try to find health care," he said.

Troubled by accounts of seriously overweight patients unable to find adequate medical care, the City Council is taking up legislation that would require some public hospitals and ambulances to have stretchers, beds and wheelchairs large enough to accommodate the obese.

Mr. Filip, the deputy attorney general, acknowledged as much in a letter last month to Mr. Specter and Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who leads the judiciary committee, when he asked them to give the Justice Department time to enact new guidelines and review their effect before taking up legislation.

In the 111th Congress, the full Senate hasn't yet taken up legislation to address climate change and financial regulatory reform.

Meanwhile, Democrats could take up legislation next week that would provide financial assistance to the automobile industry.

Under that timetable, Congress would not be likely to take up legislation before next year.

In some instances, the lawmakers have intervened with federal agencies or taken up legislation on donors' behalf.

However, he admitted that may not happen — although Democrats in Congress say they will take up legislation by the summer.