Examples of lawmaker in a Sentence
the state's lawmakers worked long into the night drafting a bill that would be acceptable to everyone
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The Congressional Budget Office warned on Wednesday that the government could run out of money to pay its bills as early as August or September if lawmakers fail to address the debt limit.
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Lauren Peller, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2025
As a consequence, British political leaders have been forced to field thorny inquiries about the security lapse, including from lawmakers in a parliamentary committee hearing on Tuesday, when the U.K. minister for the armed forces, Luke Pollard, faced a series of questions about it.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
The new bills, passed by the Council in a unanimous vote, aim to curb the prevalence of the sheds, which many lawmakers, business owners and others say hamper pedestrian flow and local commerce.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
More fundamentally, lawmakers should consider ways to apply some basic underwriting discipline to a program that often extends federal loans for dubious degrees.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
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Lauren Peller, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2025
As a consequence, British political leaders have been forced to field thorny inquiries about the security lapse, including from lawmakers in a parliamentary committee hearing on Tuesday, when the U.K. minister for the armed forces, Luke Pollard, faced a series of questions about it.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
The new bills, passed by the Council in a unanimous vote, aim to curb the prevalence of the sheds, which many lawmakers, business owners and others say hamper pedestrian flow and local commerce.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
More fundamentally, lawmakers should consider ways to apply some basic underwriting discipline to a program that often extends federal loans for dubious degrees.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Lawmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lawmaker. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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