They felt the legislation should be dealt with in the new legislative session that begins Tuesday rather than being rushed through in the closing days of this legislative calendar.
Joe Donnelly
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This is the first time … an airport has been closed through the legislative process. We follow Congress's direction.
Hank Price
Never before has there been such a flurry of legislative activity on the issue.
Adam Sharp
I think it's a tragedy when you have things like this that interrupt the flow of good legislative policy.
Lou D'allesandro
The issue is not going to die. We will make this a major issue as we go into the 2007 legislative session.
Rick Bender
The draft appears to be in sync with industry consensus on both analog hole and broadcast flag and we look forward to working through the legislative process to get them enacted quickly.
Gayle Osterberg
Unlike other legislative proposals, this legislation finally would give the cabinet meaningful enforcement authority.
Lajuana Wilcher
It's too complicated for a legislative session.
Harvey Bennett
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
Barber B. Conable, Jr.
He does have the authority to do it and probably should do it. He probably would get total legislative approval if he wants the Legislature to do it. I can't imagine that any legislator would say there wasn't an emergency.
Skip Campbell
Earle's actions are aimed at undermining Republican congressional leadership, the party's legislative agenda and our chances in the 2006 federal and state elections.
Ray Sullivan
We should have a very strong mayor and a president of Council, ... The two functions, the legislative and the executive, should be more clearly defined.
David Crowley
We're hoping this will allow for a greater awareness of the county and what it needs to continue to be the engine of Connecticut during the legislative session.
Peter Gioia
Give the course that these hearings have followed ... and given the special relationship between the legislative and executive branches embodied in our Constitution and our nation's history, we do not believe that it would be appropriate for the president to appear before the committee.
Charles Ruff
We have been building the software for the past five to six years (to cope with) SA's complex health-care environment, and will adapt it to fit the Australasian legislative environment.
Grant Newton
He's laid out pretty much where he's coming from in the coming (legislative) session. What he says really shouldn't be too much of a surprise.
Joel Sawyer
Our prayer is that it will not only be a presidential humanitarian act, but that Congress itself would abolish capital punishment by legislative act.
Archbishop Angel Lagdameo
They know that if they lose the presidential elections, they will lose the next legislative elections.
Pascal Perrineau
His legislative achievement, particularly in getting legislation with a distinctively Republican stamp on it, is almost without parallel.
Ross Baker
European countries have not granted visas to members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who were elected in a democratic way.
Mikhail Margelov
It shows ineptitude. There's no understanding of how to pass a legislative agenda.
Bill Londrigan
For public universities, it is inevitable that the legislative and executive branch appropriations are going to have to be reassessed every year. There's never an ironclad guarantee.
Greg Nichols
I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.
Rep Susan Bucher
This will legitimize it in the minds of other legislative bodies and it will hopefully get some traction.
Gene Bauston
But we will be forced to war if the Legislative Yuan or a referendum approves a new constitution.
Xu Shiquan
It is a discussion that is part of the legislative process to find a solution that will work.
Mike Journee
There's a lot of conflict down there, and it's spilled over in the legislative realm, the judicial realm and the media.
Dennis Ellis
If Mr. Bernard leaves Haiti, it will be catastrophic because he is the only man on the council who was professional. Without him we fear we could be in a situation where the legislative results will not be published.
Micha Gaillard
My first reaction was disappointment that anyone would show that level of disrespect for the members of our legislative assembly.
Jon Singleton
This was our top legislative priority last year.
Bill Ferris
Lobbyists do a ton of information gathering work for the legislative process. How could you seriously consider a banking bill without having people in the financial institutions involved?
Stephen Voss
The Internet is going to be a legislative issue in every Congress from now on.
Jerry Berman
The first round of the presidential election and the legislative elections (just one round) will take place on June 18,2006.
Apollinaire Malu Malu
The Legislative Audit Advisory (Commission) is a sham. The Legislature basically audits itself and the citizens of Pennsylvania do not have a complete and independent account of where all the money goes.
Gene Stilp
All of our goals for economic development in CrittendenCounty are tied to the legislative process in Frankfort, ... Knowing how to deal with the legislative andbureaucratic processes are key to this position.
Lee Conrad
The legislative process is not over until it's over.
Victoria Hernandez
I don't think we've done enough here on our continuity-of-government plan, ... It isn't enough to just have continuity in the executive branch. We need it in the judicial branch and the legislative branch.
Dick Gephardt
When we are in the position of decision-making and in the Palestinian Legislative Council, this will definitely open more horizons.
Saied Siam
The legislative process keeps chugging and nothing happens. It is this indecision that is so difficult.
Hal Joseph
We're seeing the legislative process go down in this Senate.
Robert C. Byrd
This meeting greatly strengthened my conviction that cooperation between both countries may have another strong boost. We identified a desire for cooperation in all levels of government, not only of the Executive, but also of the Legislative.
Abdelwahab Abdallah
It defeated the intent of the legislation, ... There is no access to the edge of the lake. We have to go through the same legislative process again.
Brian Wallace
Keno could be done in-house by Department of Revenue and the lottery. There is no legislative approval needed.
Becky Carroll
The 105th Congress was a small-business friendly Congress, ... Small business had some key legislative victories because these lawmakers understand how important small business is to the economy.
Jack Faris
The main issue we have for this legislative session is funding for staffing for our new facility. We're working hard with our delegation.
Laurey Stryker
This is a new and cute and easy thing to do, but I'm not critical of them for doing something about it. There are important and effective opportunities for legislative action to reduce teen drinking that will be much more important than this.
David Rosenbloom
You have proposed a compromise which is basically acceptable, and will, I believe, both accommodate our concerns and allow the committee to proceed with its legitimate legislative purposes.
David Kendall
I am very pleased with the Senate vote. I've said consistently that the legislative intent was not to add additional judges. Unintentional consequences caused this.
Terry Link
You'd have to first have a legislative initiative to change the rules. Right now, it would be a very, very tough thing to put forth.
Ray Golden
Frankly, one has to wonder why they would want to poison the well so early in the legislative session.
Jason Gibbs
The enactment of the CESA legislative proposal is supported by the law enforcement community...and I strongly encourage its favorable consideration by Congress.
Louis Freeh
The governor will have 40 days following the end of the legislative session. Until he's done that thoroughly we won't have a comment.
Heather Hedrick
After his Social Security plan crashed, there isn't much of a legislative program left.
David Mayhew
I'm going to the gym every night and eating a salad instead of going to dinners. I'm not having as many legislative discussions after hours, but I am improving my bench-press.
Sen Dave Aronberg
It was just an excuse. I guess it has something to do with the legislative session beginning.
Gao Zhisheng
This is about preventing a dangerous budget from passing, not getting (legislative) seats.
David Dring
It's all about incentives. It's a legislative thing because the legislators determine how much incentives a state can offer.
Janis Burklund
It's unworkable. It cannot be fixed in the remaining time in the legislative session.
Danny Chun
It's House policy that no legislative resources be used for campaign purposes.
Towson Fraser
He and Mr. Blunt have no contact on legislative issues.
Burson Taylor
There was not a lot of passion. It does give the Republicans a legislative agenda in addition to the terrorism theme, and any agenda is better than no agenda.
Stephen Wayne
It is naive to think that what is done to the judicial filibuster will not later be done to its legislative counterpart. The legislative filibuster . . . in the not-so-distant past was our only defense against the excesses of a bipartisan liberalism.
James A. Mcclure
He threatened to take me out of the legislative race.
Lee Halper
Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment.
Jack Balkin
Every additional legislative and regulatory requirement creates a new cascade of falling dominos.
Frank Fernandez
It is extremely important that a commission independent of the executive and legislative branches analyzes the Katrina disaster and the events leading up to it.
Kathleen Tierney
If we win the legislative elections , we will never recognize the state of Israel.
Mahmoud Abbas
We know our legislative delegation is pro-education.
Melvin Crum
The opinion is intended to provide some guidance going forward if this issue becomes relevant later in the legislative session.
Melissa Merz
It's still a very fluid situation. We are watching the legislative process very closely.
Eric Schippers
His legislative agenda has stalled.
Eric Davis
We are not a legislative branch where we vote on items but rather a forum where students can voice their concerns.
Emily Williams
I think it's a little bit of a stretch. The legislative intent clearly was not to incarcerate doctors or execute doctors who are performing abortions, illegal or otherwise.
Elizabeth Graham
I think this is a legislative sense of humor the rest of us don't appreciate.
Jared Peterson
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