In the final days of the session, the lawmakers scrambled to approve tougher standards of conduct.

The lawmakers were scrambling to fill a $1.1 billion shortfall in the state's $47 billion two-year budget.

Online protests against anti-Web piracy measures sent lawmakers scrambling, but what's the alternative?

This is a distinction nobody in Connecticut wanted; residents are furious, and lawmakers are scrambling for solutions.

The commission's referral of the case to the Legislature left lawmakers scrambling to figure out how to discipline the guardian of the state's finances.

Online protests against anti-Web piracy measures sent lawmakers scrambling.

As slaves grew whiter and whiter, lawmakers scrambled for legal definitions to distinguish black from white.

In Trenton, lawmakers have scrambled to enact legislation y that would aid universities in financing sprinkler systems.

Today's controversy over the mere way station called surrogate motherhood, with lawmakers and ethicists scrambling to catch up with judges, demonstrates that we are not.

Fund-raising escalated in the last days of March, as lawmakers scrambled to pump up their totals for the first-quarter reports, which closed March 31.