lawmaking

Example Sentences

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Thus would they remain insulated from the volatility of public sentiment and keep their minds on lawmaking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Congress was assigned the pivotal tasks of lawmaking and budgeting because controlling government finances was seen as essential to limiting executive power and preventing abuses that the framers associated with monarchy.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

But few legislators could handle a lawmaking scalpel like Burton.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025

As their power, riches and reach grew, a groundswell of regulatory activity, lawmaking and legal cases sprang up against them in Europe, the United States, China, India, Canada, South Korea and Australia.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2024

He was strangely suited to the tussle of lawmaking, calm inside the maelstrom, accustomed to being an outsider, taking defeats in his easy Hawaiian stride.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama