legislative

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The bill is scheduled for its first legislative committee hearing later this month.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

As the late Justice Antonin Scalia stressed, legislative floor explanations are weak evidence for the core originalist question: How would a contemporary informed reader interpret the words as enacted?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

You need local county clerks, you need secretaries of state, you need courts, you need legislative leaders in statehouses.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Conversations revolved around sunsets and legislative risk, and planning was defensive.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

It was a monumental irony: The man famous as the indefatigable orator of independence in the Continental Congress was obliged to remain silent in the legislative councils of the new government.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis