Sentence examples for trading legislative from inspiring English sources

Now the scandal has seeped into the Capitol in Madison, where leaders of each party could face indictment on charges of making government employees do political work, and perhaps on charges of trading legislative action for campaign contributions.

A former aide to Senator Thad Cochran, Republican of Mississippi, was sentenced Wednesday to 75 days in a halfway house and 75 days of home detention in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal after trading legislative favors for more than $25,000 in event tickets and other gifts.

[C1.] Senate Passes $40 Billion Budget-Cutting Plan The Senate blocked an effort to use an essential Pentagon spending bill to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling but passed a $40 billion budget-cutting plan as lawmakers traded legislative moves in a tense end-of-session chess match.

Prosecutors filed felony charges of extortion and misconduct in public office today against the majority leader of the Wisconsin Senate, saying he routinely traded legislative favors for campaign contributions, used state employees to do political work and flouted the state's campaign finance laws.

This week, Vice President Biden told a Building Trades Legislative Conference, "To me, it's a good thing if we get cleaner electricity from a windmill.

It would label as securities fraud any trading on legislative information by lawmakers or their staff members.

State Rep. Tom Cross, R-Oswego, and state Sen. Michael Frerichs, D-Champaign, both are seeking to trade their legislative seats for the Illinois State Treasurer's Office in November.

Before extending the prohibition on insider trading based on legislative information, Congress will have to grapple with the question whether it is willing to open itself up to being investigated if any of its members and their staff misuse that information for personal gain.

Many opponents fought together in two previous legislative trade wars: the 1993 North American Free Trade Act (Mr. Clinton won that round), and the debates in 1997 and 1998 over granting the President fast-track negotiating authority (Mr. Clinton lost those).

Before 1998, those agreements were made in private horse-trading sessions with legislative leaders, a process that was derisively called "three men in a room".

Mr. Holzer said that "Lincoln was behind all the arm-twisting, deals, job offers, near-bribes and legislative trade-offs that made passage of the 13th Amendment happen in the House," but that Albany helped with the mechanics.