"lawmaker" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Indeed, when the Pentagon originally asked for $2.6 billion to buy C-130J's, lawmakers authorized $4 billion.
- In response to those problems, lawmakers last July authorized a budget this year of $776 million, 77 percent more than its budget in the previous year.
- Would there be three Catskill casinos, which lawmakers authorized four years ago?
- Only two months ago, HUD negotiators had thought they might persuade lawmakers to authorize 15,000 new vouchers.
- The measure would allow lawmakers to authorize telephone betting on live or simulcast harness horse races.
- The staff member said lawmakers would authorize "a reasonable number" of new vouchers in President Clinton's 2000 budget request.
- The lawmakers had authorized $275,000 two years earlier to demolish the remains of City Hospital, the operating corporation said, but the contractor's estimate was $600,000.
- Republicans had just taken control of both houses of Congress, and lawmakers had several months earlier authorized Mr. Bush to use force against Iraq.
- Meanwhile, to prevent production lines from going cold, lawmakers authorized the Pentagon to pay up to $100 million this year to keep dozens of contractors and subcontractors primed for new work.
- The developments reflected continued uncertainty in Congress over whether lawmakers should authorize the surveillance program, or seek to rein in an operation that Democrats contend is illegal.
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