legislator
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As a sitting state legislator who knows how to run local elections as an organizer and candidate, Nixon has a résumé that has prepared her for Washington, said Carr.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Adalah said Abu Shehadeh's decades of public life as a human rights activist, legislator and party leader demonstrated his "consistent and unequivocal opposition to violence of any kind".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
I come to this debate as both a former Big Ten football player and a state legislator who wrote one of the country’s early NIL laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The final vote came on Monday on a consent calendar, the place for matters considered so routine that no legislator even wishes to discuss them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Stephen Clark, the legislator who brought the bill to ban texting to the Utah House, eventually was honored by being named an LDS mission president in Missouri.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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At the same time, as pastor of a 24,000-strong church, Hamilton has also supported women facing pregnancy-related crises, and said he wants "to make sure Kansas legislators are not making that decision for those women."
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
During her campaign, she promised a moratorium until state legislators set new rules about data-center construction.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
PBMs have made changes after coming under pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, as well as state and federal legislators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
So you had legislators in Texas that talked about that ruling and said, “We can’t have an electrocution in someone’s living room.”
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
From the moment Burn and his fellow legislators arrived in Nashville, women on both sides of the issue had been pressuring them for their votes.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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