How can a legislator be effective if he allows the perfect to be the enemy of the good?
During the years that Pope was a legislator, he explored more indirect means of gaining political influence as well.
Perhaps you know that Jeff is already a legislator, being a sixth term Representative in the House from Arizona.
That makes it different than what a legislator says on the campaign trail or what a private citizen does within the voting booth.
That a legislator might call up a senior judge for a chat seems odd, as does the conversation's tone, which was all first names and laughter.
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1981, he has spent almost all his career serving the public in low-paying jobs as a legislator and lawyer.
On December 1st, one of the signatories, Mouawiyah Masri, a legislator from Nablus, in the West Bank, was shot in the leg by three masked gunmen.
But his record on taxes over more than two decades as a legislator and governor turns out to be much more complicated (dare I say nuanced) than that.
Under the present system, getting the most out of the federal government for the federal tax your district puts in is a crucial part of a legislator's job.
The Democrat will run on his experience and proven track record, an obvious shot at Johnson, who has never been a legislator and lacks the Democrat's political experience.
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Given that Tim Yeo is a highly honourable man it goes without saying that of course his personal financial interests are completely divorced from his activities as a legislator.
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Having fought to protect lakes, rivers and streams as a legislator, he now plans to get all regional water and sewage policy under his thumb as firmly as he has the roads.
The moment of silence also was recognized on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and in Boston, where lawmakers were shaken by the violent attack on a legislator thousands of miles away.
Ted Kennedy, the Democrats not only lost someone who would unite the party, they also lost a legislator and a senator with a memory of what can happen when purity gets in the way of compromise.
Mr McCain has some credibility on this subject, since he voted against farm and ethanol subsidies (Mr Obama voted for both), castigated bloated Pentagon procurement and refused to ask for earmarks (funds set aside for a legislator's favourite projects).
As a legislator whose background is rooted in education and job training, I believe creating jobs is the single most important effort this nation can put forth if we are to move forward as a country and a world economy.
Calvin grew up hearing cautionary tales about the woes that indebtedness had brought upon neighbors and family, and he got his first glimpse of political life at Plymouth town meetings, selling popcorn and apples while his father, a storekeeper and a legislator, participated in the proceedings.
It is an overall assessment of all aspects of a given legislator in a thousand different political activities.
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In June, a state legislator told a Republican dinner that the new measure would "allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania".
She founded Let South Carolina Hear and helped persuade a state legislator to introduce a bill this year that would cover at least part of the cost.
"All I can say is he's a great legislator, he's a great human being, a person who always has that sense of humor, and that will pull him through, between you and me, " said Republican Sen.
The Los Angeles River, however, has a history of ridicule and neglect: A state legislator in the 1980s wanted to build a highway on it.
After attending Vassar and American University Law School, he spent five years as a prosecutor, then jumped into politics--first as a county legislator, then, in 1992, in a race against Congressman Tom Downey, a Democrat who had represented the district for 18 years.
Mr Paterson, a state legislator for two decades before he became lieutenant-governor, is as much a product of corrupt Albany as of the Harlem Clubhouse.
As a state legislator in the 1960s, he pushed through one of the earliest pre-Roe v.
As the first African-American woman to be a State Legislator in Idaho, Buckner-Webb has experienced ongoing attacks.
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Now, as a former legislator myself, I followed your role in the new Parliament with interest and admiration.
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Mr Kennedy, both adored and loathed as a personality, was a prolific legislator.
When the new Congress gets going in March, these will not be renewed, says Federico Storani, a Radical legislator.
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