Based on their experience, the 2010 class of Senate Republican freshman could well prove to be relatively pragmatic and wise to the ways of legislative dealmaking — almost certainly more so than the Tea Party-backed firebrands like Sharron Angle in Nevada and Rand Paul in Kentucky, who have built their campaigns around ideological demands and an end to business as usual.
Jacobs imitated a crying baby in ridiculing Collins, instructing him on the ways of legislative horse-trading, saying something along the lines of "that's how it works down here".
And much of what the commission urged, by way of legislative reform, is, in the eyes of the Court, unconstitutional.
For now, though, there is something like consensus that the court's existing decisions will not stand in the way of most legislative responses to the recent shootings.
The era that dawned on Sept. 11, and the war against terrorism that has pervaded the sinews of our national life since that day, are reflected in thousands of ways in legislative and national policy, the habits of daily living, and our collective psyches.
In Egypt, voters overwhelmingly approved a package of constitutional amendments, making way for legislative elections as early as June.
The tampon measure, officially known as AB 1561, will next make its way through a series of legislative committees and eventually may be voted on by the assembly as a whole.
With Republicans in control of the state Capitol, gun-rights advocates may have their way on a number of legislative priorities when lawmakers reconvene in Richmond on Jan . 12
Since that makes for a really crappy campaign slogan, North Carolina Republicans have resorted to one lie after another as they've wormed their way through this most dishonorable of legislative sessions.
The Security Council of the United Nations exercises authority in a variety of ways: sometimes acting as a kind of legislative body and sometimes acting as a kind of executive body.
Writing after the assassination, Neustadt notes that in his short time in office Kennedy had put in motion many of the signature bills later passed by Johnson, and ponders the unknowable question: had he lived, would Kennedy have succeeded in making his plans law?Though he came from the Senate, Kennedy was not enamoured of the legislative way of life, "and legislators knew it", Neustadt argues.
