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How to use the word Legislative in a Sentence? Page #5

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Unleashing each and every The House committee to torment the President with legislative subpoena after legislative subpoena is a recipe for constitutional crisis.

Jay Sekulow

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There will be some legislative issues with a very large JP Morgan, but continued consolidation within the banking sector along with international competition could push the large to get even larger.

Paul Nolte

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We announced this morning before entering the legislative palace that the rebellion by the deputies ... would be clearly expressed.

Luis Parra

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have worked with Luis on a lot of legislative initiatives, hopefully this is a team that can handle the urgencies of the sector, particularly financing.

Carlos Iannizzotto

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our legislative framework is just missing in action when it comes to artisanal and small-scale mining.

David Perkins

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When judges assume the role of a legislature, the rights of all citizens are threatened, the great English jurist William Blackstone warned that if the judicial power were joined with the legislative, then life, liberty and property would be in the hands of arbitrary judges.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The legislative process starts in the House and we are making a lot of progress there, we are galloping right now and I expect that we'll have a hearing and a vote.

Jim Gagliano

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We will know in the next few days if we're able to build a (legislative) consensus or if we wait for the referendum.

Ricardo Monreal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While we are reviewing the court's lengthy decision, as well as Judge Rao's dissent, we continue to believe that this subpoena is not a legitimate exercise of Congress's legislative authority.

Jay Sekulow

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Investigations of impeachable offenses simply are not, and never have been, within Congress's legislative power, throughout our history, Congress, the President, and the courts have insisted upon maintaining the separation between the legislative and impeachment powers of the House and recognized the gravity and accountability that follow impeachment.

Neomi Rao

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were all, you know, kind of experiencing our service in different ways, and I think we're able to fold that in together on legislative ideas and our agendas.

Chrissy Houlahan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Critical infrastructure laws like Texas' were created by oil and gas lobbyists and secretive groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council to restrict First Amendment rights and to try to bring to bear extraordinary consequences for legitimate protests.

Tom Wetterer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Subcommittee also is interested in soliciting input from policy analysts, market participants, and other stakeholders on whether legislative action relating to such mergers is needed to ensure digital markets remain competitive.

Mike Lee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I understand that this budget approach and timing, being so late in the legislative year, caused significant angst among Alaskans, however, certain programs, programs we value, got caught in a budget discussion that went on way too long.

Mike Dunleavy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The folks that have been skeptical about the politics of gun safety for a long time are the same ones who feel the gun debate needs to happen within the four corners of a compromise amendment from six years ago, the debate that we're seeing happen at the national level, whether we're talking about presidential politics or Congress, is derived from the fact that voters across the country are extremely angry at the status quo. ... The fact that our leaders are responding to that anger is of enormous benefit to our legislative efforts and doesn't distract( from them) in any way, shape or form.

Peter Ambler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

While the study confirms our concerns about the tax structure that the legislature passed, we know that this can be addressed, and we look forward to working with the governor and legislative leaders to revise the legislation.

Lori Lightfoot

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I have never had such agreement. I don't know what kind of agreements (New Progressive Party and legislative leaders) have reached.

Wanda Vazquez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The clock is ticking, canada has already begun to make it through the legislative process, Mexico has already begun making changes that we asked for. ... We believe if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brings it to the floor it will pass.

Mike Pence

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

From where I stand, I'm deeply disappointed that the House leadership would proceed in that way in something that is so obviously beneath the dignity of the offices they hold. It's really a new low for the current House of Representatives, we're talking about a matter, the census, in which the Supreme Court has already ruled, and we have moved on. So, the House has not identified some compelling legislative need for this. To the contrary this makes no sense at all.

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're talking about a matter, the census, in which the Supreme Court has already ruled, and we have moved on. So, the House has not identified some compelling legislative need for this. To the contrary this makes no sense at all.

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I welcome the process started by the legislative assembly, which I will confront with complete truth.

Opposing Rossello

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In China, they have a national intelligence law that puts broad requirements on organisations to support and collaborate on national intelligence work and it's a particular legal legislative framework which is relevant.

Julian King

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There are still lingering doubts about the government's sincerity or worries whether the government will restart the process in the Legislative Council, so, I reiterate here, there is no such plan, the bill is dead.

Hong Kong

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.

Norval Morris

added by Normando
4 years ago

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