Sentence examples for to kill legislation from inspiring English sources

Throughout, Mr. Velella has been one of the industry's biggest allies, and a review of his legislative record shows that he often helped to kill legislation that the industry opposed.

Governors, like lawmakers, have a million ways to kill legislation.

The Assembly would no longer be able to kill legislation passed by the Senate or vice versa.

The 67-page complaint details many incidents, over five years, in which lobbyists contend that Mr. Chvala threatened to kill legislation unless they donated to Democratic candidates.

They are accused of paying former State Senator John Celona to kill legislation CVS opposed or to sponsor bills the company supported.

Labor succeeded, however, in helping to kill legislation that would make it easier to negotiate free-trade agreements with other countries.

A1 Asbestos Bill Rejected The Senate voted to all but kill legislation to create a $140 billion fund to compensate victims of asbestos poisoning, meaning that the courts are likely to remain the primary forum for processing asbestos cases.

Despite this, it's not entirely unusual for the Senate to mutilate or kill legislation kicked up to it from the Commons (see, infamously, the case of Bill C-279).

But to borrow the old N.R.A. bumper sticker, lobbyists don't kill legislation — legislators do.

Senate leaders are expected to announce new rules on Thursday aimed at curbing use of the filibuster to stall or kill legislation or presidential nominations.

His solution: get back to a lengthier workweek and end the Senate's dilatory tactics, including most especially "the damned filibuster," by allowing lawmakers to slow down but not kill legislation by talking it to death.