Sentences with phrase «legislative limbo»
"Legislative limbo" refers to a situation where proposed laws or bills are stuck in an unresolved state for a long period of time. It means they have not been passed or rejected, leaving them in a kind of legal uncertainty or deadlock. Full definition
The bill has been in legislative limbo since Thursday, when Senate Democrats failed to win a procedural vote to open debate on it.
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Finally, they argue that California needs to monitor and control groundwater withdrawals (a California Assembly bill to do this was sent into legislative limbo this spring) and to crack down on profligate water users whose excesses are in violation of the legal requirement that water use be «beneficial.»
A controversial anti-gay bill in Uganda, which would give the death sentence to some open homosexuals, is in legislative limbo after the legislature recessed for their break without voting on the bill.
After weeks in legislative limbo, a plan to provide federally financed, $ 7,500 tuition vouchers for children in the District of Columbia appeared late last week to be headed for passage in Congress.
Washington — The House refused last week to override President Bush's Oct. 21 veto of the 1990 appropriations bill that includes funding for education programs, sending it into legislative limbo.
With Republican efforts to «repeal and replace» Obamacare in legislative limbo, and with potentially enormous changes in federal budget outlays on the horizon, the outlook for healthcare policy is cloudier than it has been in years — adding yet another challenge to those who want to invest and innovate in this area.
While Senate Democrats celebrated the moment of rare bipartisanship — Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called it a «genuine breakthrough» — progressives and activists blasted them for leaving immigrants in legislative limbo.
Update: After a week in legislative limbo, a bill that would have placed a $ 4.3 billion school construction bond on the November ballot is now officially dead.
The standards are currently stuck in legislative limbo.
Dozens of judicial appointments, ambassadorships and executive appointments that require Senate approval languish in legislative limbo.
There is still no sign of the many Brexit bills languishing in legislative limbo, while the whips try and construct a majority to push them through.