legislators

plural of legislator
as in lawmakers
a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws the legislators met in an all-night session to hammer out the details of the bill

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Recent Examples of legislators And Butler believes legislators still need to have important conversations with people representing different sides of the issue before advancing comprehensive AI legislation. Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024 To improve attendance rates — an ongoing issue since the COVID-19 pandemic — legislators passed a new law this year that could lead to jail time for parents who repeatedly fail to get their elementary children to school. Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 3 Oct. 2024 Valley mayors pitched the transportation tax extension to legislators in 2022, who passed it. Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024 Advertisement When a tech baron like Ballmer wants it, state legislators and Newsom seem more than happy to oblige. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024 There were legislators who may or may not have taken some money from Dunn and Wilks, but who followed most of their agenda out of fear of facing a primary challenger. Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2024 The governor encouraged legislators to rewrite it for the next session. John Kell, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024 Some legislators favor pumping water in from Mexico or elsewhere, which will be massively expensive — and take decades. Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024

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“Legislators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legislators. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.

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