Legislators whose voting pattern matches such organizations as Christian Coalition, Family Research Council, Eagle Forum, and the Heritage Foundation are said to " illustrate the strength of dominionists in Congress " even though none of these groups identifies themselves with the dominionist movement.

Legislators included a classified annex to the Defense Appropriations Act that preserved funding for TIA's component technologies, if they were transferred to other government agencies.

Legislators, particularly those opposed to slavery, feared that any delay would allow Missouri to apply for statehood before Illinois, and that since Missouri was a slave state, this would cause so much turmoil in Congress that it would delay Illinois ' admission even longer.

Legislators who logroll within a small body, for example, the US House or Senate, have incentive to honor their IOU votes because they cannot have their reputations tainted if they wish to be effective politicians ( Holcombe 2006 ).

He wrote to Prevost's Adjutant General, My situation is most critical, not from anything the enemy can do, but from the disposition of the people – The Population, believe me is essentially bad – A full belief possesses them that this Province must inevitably succumb – This Prepossession is fatal to every exertion – Legislators, Magistrates, Militia Officers, all, have imbibed the idea, and are so sluggish and indifferent in all their respective offices that the artful and active scoundrel is allowed to parade the Country without interruption, and commit all imaginable mischief ... What a change an additional regiment would make in this part of the Province!

These delegates debate their own bills, and can also serve as Pages to the Legislators.

In 2010, Mexico Legislators added a law similar to that of the UK called the Anti Trafficking in Persons Act ( rough translation ) which makes it a crime to offer the sexual services of another person against their will.

The power of the Legislative being derived from the People by a positive voluntary Grant and Institution, can be no other, than what the positive Grant conveyed, which being only to make Laws, and not to make Legislators, the Legislative can have no power to transfer their Authority of making laws, and place it it in other hands.

Legislators also receive an " office allowance " of $ 1, 000 per month, ostensibly for the maintenance of an office area devoted to their legislative work in their homes or elsewhere within their district.

Other groups supporting their repeal include the National Conference of Insurance Legislators, the American Bar Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the National Commission Against Drunk Driving, and the American Medical Association.

Legislators rewrote all of the human rights laws in the state, restricting discrimination based on " race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, or unfavorable discharge from military service in connection with employment, real estate transactions, access to financial credit, and the availability of public accommodations.

Legislators from the northern counties will often reflexively oppose what is seen as " meddling " from the majority in the south, and the legislators from the south have been too divided on the issue to push through a state-wide ban.

Ric Keller campaigned hard on a term limits pledge ( which he has since broken ) with the slogan Citizen Legislators.

Legislators first elected on or before June 5, 2012 are restricted by the previous term limits, approved in 1990, which limited legislators to three terms in the State Assembly and two terms in the State Senate.

Legislators, not on the committee where the bill received its public hearing, may only offer amendments to the bill at this stage.

Legislators pose as Governor Martin O ' Malley | O ' Malley signs a bill into law at a signing ceremony in Annapolis, Maryland | Annapolis, Maryland, on May 13, 2008.

Legislators with more time to offer are generally placed on " A " committees, which meet Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, while others are assigned to " B " committees that meet only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Legislators from outlying rural districts are chosen on a plurality basis, while districts located in more populous towns and cities elect multiple legislators by means of a proportion-based formula.

Skinner has been the European Parliamentary Labour Party's spokesperson on Financial and Economic Affairs, and he has also been a member of the USA delegation to the Transatlantic Legislators Dialogue since the late 1990s.

Van Rensselaer's effect on the history of the United States cannot be underestimated: the American van Rensselaers all descend from Kiliaen's son Jeremias and the subsequent family is noted for being a very powerful and wealthy influence in the history of New York and the Northeastern United States producing multiple State Legislators, Congressmen, and two Lieutenant Governors in New York.

Prentiss and Shirley Smith were chosen to serve on the executive committee of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators during the organizations conference in Philadelphia.

Legislators approved calling a referendum on a constitutional amendment – supported by Collins – to make the state superintendent of education an appointive, rather than elective, office.

Legislators insisted on more legislative control of the lottery and did not favor explicit earmarks for the proceeds, preferring to allocate them in the 1990 legislative session.

The second was given by the National Conference of State Legislators in 2007, for an investigative report directed by Brennan as Chair of the Committee on Investigation.

Legislators also receive mileage for " actual daily attendance on legislative days, but not after the legislature shall have been in session for 45 legislative days or after the first day of July following the annual assembly of the legislature.

She is currently a Deputy Majority Whip, the Vice Chair of the Montgomery County House Delegation, Chair of the Subcommittee on Family Law, President of the Women Legislators of Maryland, House Chairman of the Maryland Commission on Cyber Security Innovation and Excellence, House Chairman of Nanobiotechnology Task Force and Identity Theft Task Force.

In April 2009 on the same day Vermont Legalized same-sex marriage, gay activist Bishop Gene Robinson debated the legislation of gay marriage with the president of the right-wing Cornerstone Group and New Hampshire Legislators.

Legislators are one such group, and state legislators have major responsibility for educational legislation.

Legislators who last year opposed placing aged-care under the social security system criticized the President's plan.

Legislators always get restless for a special session ( whether for the companionship or the $22.50 per diem is not certain ) and if they start agitating.

Legislators from the Iraqi Accord Front, Sadrist Movement and Islamic Virtue Party all opposed the bill.

The National Conference of Insurance Legislators ( NCOIL ) also works to harmonize the different state laws.

Legislators usually enact such laws when they wish to impose penalties that fall outside the framework specified by each class.

" Legislators and others mounted challenges in the 1960s.

The Westchester County Board of Legislators is the legislative, policy-making branch of Westchester County.

ALEC first came into being in Chicago as the " Conservative Caucus of State Legislators ", a project initiated by Mark Rhoads, an assistant to an Illinois state senator.

Legislators say is introduced.

Allegany County Government is of the Legislature style and is represented by 15 County Legislators.

The County is divided into five districts with three Legislators from each district.

Legislative authority is vested in the county Board of Legislators which consists of 15 members each elected from single member districts.

* Robbins, William G. Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the U. S. Lumber Industry, 1890-1941 ( Texas A.

Legislators later stiffened penalties for leaving the scene of an accident.

Legislators representing Atlanta and southwestern Fulton County, who feared tax revenue that would be lost from incorporation, blocked the bills using the procedural requirement that all local legislation be approved first by a delegation of representatives from the affected area.

Legislators were persuaded at the time that cassette recorders would decimate sales of records as friend after friend would then make copies of only one purchased album.

Legislators were unnerved by the campaign, and the outcome remained uncertain.