Examples of lawmaker in a Sentence
the state's lawmakers worked long into the night drafting a bill that would be acceptable to everyone
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Kelly said that could be achieved by creating a fund that would be divided up annually between qualifying cities and counties — a similar proposal to one House lawmakers approved in the original version of the protest petition bill.
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Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
California lawmakers want schools to include nicotine in drug tests already given to student-athletes, some as young as seventh graders.
—Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
The state’s lawmakers are continuing to consider them as sophisticated governance entities that require clearer standards and stronger oversight.
—Evonne Andris, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
Efforts at change moving slowly After the Minneapolis shootings, California state lawmakers promised quick efforts to make sure that if ICE agents shot someone in California, the landscape would look very different than what has unfolded so far in Stanislaus County.
—Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
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Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
California lawmakers want schools to include nicotine in drug tests already given to student-athletes, some as young as seventh graders.
—Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
The state’s lawmakers are continuing to consider them as sophisticated governance entities that require clearer standards and stronger oversight.
—Evonne Andris, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
Efforts at change moving slowly After the Minneapolis shootings, California state lawmakers promised quick efforts to make sure that if ICE agents shot someone in California, the landscape would look very different than what has unfolded so far in Stanislaus County.
—Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Lawmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lawmaker. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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