Sentence examples for through lawmakers from inspiring English sources
She devised unpopular lobbying and campaign finance overhauls with groups outside the Council, and then muscled them through, lawmakers complained.
The council is expected to vote on the proposal after the summer recess, giving taxi allies time to advocate through lawmakers, mayoral candidates and regulators.
A team of federal officials turned up in Salt Lake, reminding Republicans that the state stood to lose $100 million in federal education aid if they followed through, lawmakers recalled.
In North Carolina, after repeated attempts at negotiating a repeal of HB 2 fell through, lawmakers passed a new law in March as they scrambled to beat a deadline dictated by the NCAA.
Those officials who request CRS reports may choose to release them publicly at some point, and many reports can be obtained through lawmakers' offices and fee-based data services.
Many of the people who breeze through are lawmakers and staffers who tote concealed weapons into offices or onto the floor of the legislature.
Taken together, the authorization plus the appropriation represented a kind of belt-and-suspenders approach to making sure that NIH follows through on lawmakers' interest in having the agency do more to understand and find cures for everything from pediatric cancer and juvenile arthritis to adolescent suicide and obesity.
Mr. Trump pressured Congress by threatening to withdraw from NAFTA, which, if he follows through, could present lawmakers with a choice between accepting his deal and a potentially disastrous return to the pre-NAFTA status quo.
The House measure is likely to sail through next week, lawmakers and lobbyists predicted.
To keep the government running through Friday, lawmakers approved a short-term spending measure overnight — the Senate at 12 20 a.m. and the House at 12 40 a.m.
To break through to lawmakers, some national trade groups are deploying local business owners, who they believe may have more clout with conservatives than big-name chief executive officers.
