Sentence examples for term legislation from inspiring English sources
On Medicare, the new administration's more cautious approach contrasts with the ambitious "fast-track" schedule for Medicare legislation that Mr. Bush outlined during the campaign: immediate short term legislation to help with prescription drugs for low-income elderly and a task force that produced legislation for a complete overhaul of the program by September.
The acting administrator, Robert A. Sturgell, said in an interview on Tuesday that operating without long-term legislation would eventually interfere with acquisitions and hiring, but he said his agency was doing well with technology and people.
Mandeville's involved "the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician" — in modern terms, legislation, regulation and taxation.
"The banks do not accept that the legal test of unfairness set out in unfair- contract-terms legislation applies to the charges.
Senate liberals are now pushing for an overhaul fully on Democratic terms — legislation more like that in the House, where liberal Democrats dominate.
Mr. Obama has also endorsed, in general terms, legislation that would put strict caps on greenhouse gas emissions and invest in technologies to make it easier to achieve those caps.
This week, Congress will have the opportunity to vote on short-term legislation, H.R. 1123, which would allow for consumers to unlock their devices until the Librarian rules again in October, 2015 (see my committee testimony here).
"...the House and Senate are...supposed to pass long-term legislation to reauthorize FAA programs.
Left unsaid is whether Boehner would agree to some short-term legislation in the meantime to achieve that delay.
In creating this compromise, Congress opted to avoid passing short-term legislation that would have created another fight next summer.
"Our experience is that organizing around the problems of unlimited campaign spending and artificial corporate rights simultaneously boosts an amendment as well as more short-term legislation," he said to HuffPost.
