lawmakers

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The alarm was immediate, with lawmakers and pundits invoking the specter of a graying, shrinking America unable to fund its elders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Many believe change won’t come until at least 2027, when lawmakers reconvene in Austin.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Since 2020, the Public Prosecutor's Office has compiled complaints against 67 lawmakers for allegedly committing some 700 crimes, most of them related to corruption.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Once free of the 80-degree heat and clear of the Capitol building’s magnetometers, I beelined past sweaty tour groups in search of lawmakers who might own a pair of shoes from the president.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

There was less meddling from the lawmakers and abolitionists down south, the planters saw to that.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead