Sentence examples for worthwhile legislation from inspiring English sources

But as we've seen again this election cycle, almost all members of Congress win re-election regardless of the size of the federal deficit or whether they passed any worthwhile legislation.

The bill's author, Adrin Nazarian (D-Sherman Oaks), should add these useful provisions to his worthwhile legislation.

Indeed, the small number of votes included in this year's Senate Scorecard is testament to the fact that much worthwhile legislation stood no chance in the face of opposition from an anti-environment minority.

Any significant and worthwhile legislation passed in our country's history, regardless of what party controlled Congress, has been a multi-year process, including civil rights, women's rights, health care reform, drunk driving laws, LGBT rights, and the list goes on.

Acknowledging that the WTO Decision was complicated on its own, they argued that if 'robustly implemented with a minimum of interference', the legislation would be worthwhile.

For example, it may be worthwhile to first build popular support for legislation through investing in mass media approaches, and only afterwards endeavour to pass legislation.

"There's a quasi-ideological divide between people who think consumer protection legislation is a good idea, a worthwhile function of the government in general and the Fed in particular, and those who think it's not," Mr. Blinder said.

In a worthwhile step just before lawmakers headed home, Congress approved legislation intended to better protect federal judges.

The legislature is due back in special session sometime soon, but don't expect much more than noise if they haven't got enough important legislation on their agenda to make their return worthwhile.

Rather than launch into a long-winded argument about why the legislation is a bad idea — it is, as currently written — I thought it might be worthwhile to boil SOPA down into a series of questions.

This legislation has yet to be passed, but if information technology is your field, it may be worthwhile keeping your eye on how it develops.