"legislator" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Silver said the rank-and-file legislators are responsible for the current system because they elect the leaders and set the rules.
- But any reservations about the project were moot because of the new open budget process, which allowed rank-and-file legislators to debate budget priorities in public meetings.
- Efforts to reach a compromise on a capital-gains tax cut are being complicated by opposition from rank-and-file legislators in both parties.
- "Nothing happens here in Albany, in the Assembly, without the input of the rank-and-file legislators," he said.
- The commission had previously recommended 25 percent pay raises for rank-and-file legislators, to $23,500 a year.
- The newly open budget process, which rank-and-file legislators embraced, has improved their view of the Speaker.
- The talks have not included rank-and-file legislators, who tonight still had yet to be given details on paper.
- For the first time, the budget was hammered out in conference committees, with the involvement of many rank-and-file legislators, rather than in secret meetings among state leaders.
- So far, the Senate's majority party has talked a good game when it comes to open government or giving some say to rank-and-file legislators.
- Both houses also changed their procedural rules in ways they said would give more power to rank-and-file legislators.
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