#legislature

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#colleges #cut #cuts #education #funding

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#always #avoided #confined #interests #laws

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. ↗

— George W. Bush

#executive #interpret #job #law #legislature

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#been #focused #house #last #legislation

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this. ↗

— Marc Morial

#business #business community #city #city council #closely

Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law. ↗

— Zack de la Rocha

#apply #arizona #artists #between #commercial

No state legislature ever built a great university. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#ever #great #legislature #state #state legislature

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#been #colonial #cut #had #importation

Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#california #candidates #country #election #first

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#crime #current #imposed #invisible #judges