Sentence examples for us legislative from inspiring English sources
"The US administration is aggressively pushing the TPP through the US legislative process on the sly," says Julian Assange, the founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, who is living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London following an extradition dispute with Sweden, where he faces allegations of rape.
To try to avoid this, the bill will make use of a device known as "prospective overruling", a US legislative technique.
President Trump is calling for $5.7bn to build a border wall with Mexico, which Democrats in the US legislative body are refusing to pass.
People are also entitled to ponder whether the price of keeping the Americans so close might involve undertaking some of their "dirty work" – developing intelligence-gathering techniques that are beyond the US legislative and judicial framework, but can be accommodated within ours.
"From corporate America to Indian techies to Indian-Americans with family ties to their native land all are lobbying hard to influence changes in the proposed immigration law that has started moving through the US legislative labyrinthine.
Most interesting to us, legislative events tend to produce documents that were either themselves the "subject" of the event (as in floor debate over a particular bill) or its result (as when a committee markup session produces a new version of a bill).
Their Joint Statement reaffirms the importance of EU-US legislative cooperation based on common values, shared principles and important transatlantic challenges.
"By him pushing it, almost exclusively, over anything else, it just really made it even tougher for us," the legislative aide said.
"Our initial thoughts on this are that Congress have given us a legislative vehicle that has come fully loaded with all the options," said Gloria Bergquist, a vice president at Auto Alliance, the industry trade association.
Allan Noe, director of communications for CropLife America, which represents Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto and other major developers of genetically altered farm products, and lobbied hard against the initiative's passage, said, "After we get over our disappointment we're going to regroup and consider what options might be available to us, including legislative and legal remedies".
In addition, a professional lobbyist is employed to keep us appraised of legislative activities and to help us affect desired outcomes.
