Sentences with phrase «massive pieces of legislation»

The Affordable Health Care Act (lovingly deemed Obamacare) was such a massive piece of legislation that many Congress people seemed to relish proclaiming that they had never read it.

The Senate moved overnight to pass the $ 1.3 trillion budget bill after Sen. Rand Paul ended his opposition of the massive piece of legislation.

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«This is a piece of legislation with a massive hole in it,» he said.

Evers earlier this year praised Walker's budget proposal, but until now the two have been at odds over how much money the state and property taxpayers should send to schools, the expansion of taxpayer - funded vouchers and on Walker's signature piece of legislation known as Act 10, which nearly eliminated collective bargaining for public school teachers and resulted in massive membership losses for the state's largest teachers union, which has heavily backed Evers.

While Congress members like Fred Upton (Republican, Michigan) yowl about the EPA's efforts to regulate carbon emissions as «an unconstitutional power grab» and attach the term «job - killing» to every piece of environmental legislation with a political pulse, national security officials have been offering dire warnings about the perils of climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration.