#legislative

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #branch #built #cost #dependent

We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country. ↗

— Brian Schweitzer

#best #country #driving #economy #flying

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#legislative #party #talk #tend #terms

One of the best legislative accomplishments I've had here on an international basis and on saving lives is the bill we did against human trafficking. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#against #basis #best #bill #did

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#adapted #already #been #best #conviction

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#balance #balances #branches #check #checking

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#ballot box #box #come #courts #governor

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#action #body #cannot #cells #consumers

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#becomes #bend #better #career #congress

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

#boot #crack #damage #does #equivalent