We elect lawmakers to make the laws and it's hardly a novel idea to allow them to do so.

Other female lawmakers have made the same complaint about Baca.

Some lawmakers in both parties made the same point today.

The idea was to enable lawmakers to make informed decisions when they came to vote on the problem.

But lawmakers themselves do not often make the distinction.

When Congress acted last year, lawmakers made clear that they wanted to leave local governments some flexibility.

If it is viewed as successful, the lawmakers could then make the new date permanent.

Under Senate rules, only a lawmaker on the winning side of a vote can make such a motion.

Others are concerned about how lawmakers will make their decisions.

Democratic lawmakers had been making similar arguments for years, though they were derided as soft on crime.