What is "legislators"

Usage examples of "legislators".

Scott and other legislators say reforms are necessary to improve the image of the Legislature, which is still regarded by many Floridians as a springtime gathering of slackers, pickpockets and whores.

They proposed an amendment that would have required legislators to meet in the open at all times, even when jawboning with the governor.

Under fire from angry constituents, legislators are fumbling around with a sham responsea whopping three-day waiting period.

It describes how some state legislators have accepted free vacations provided by lobbyists from major utilities, auto dealers, the hotel industry, Big Agriculture and insurance firms.

In the following April the farmers flocked to a convention at the state capital and so impressed the legislators that they passed more stringent and effective laws for the regulation of railroads.

It is a well-known fact that the corporations were not averse to creating among legislators a disposition to favor their interests.

Passes were commonly given by the railroads to all public officials, from the local supervisors to the judges of the Supreme Court, and opportunities were offered to legislators to buy stock far below the market price.

The methods of the railroads in dealing with the legislators were most subtle.

In Indiana, Michigan, and Minnesota, the new party movement manifested considerable strength, but, with the exception of one Alliance Congressman from Minnesota and a number of legislators, the fruits of its activity were gathered by the Democrats.

Governors-General have yielded the proper power of the United States to encroachment by native legislators will make the course expected of the present Executive the more arduous.

It would not be good for America to have in her Congress legislators from so great a distance, with interests that might well be foreign to the interests of the nation.

Several legislators have joined sociologists in condemning the program as cruel and exploitative.

To ensure that our Dodge City reputation never ebbs, many South Florida legislators backed a new state gun law that enables practically any glassy-eyed psychopath to arm himself on a whim.

Florida legislators, and efforts to curb the annual gluttony in Tallahassee usually fall short.

Nobody is suggesting that legislators stop eating with lobbyists, only that they pay for their own meals and cocktails.