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legislator

noun as in person in government who makes laws

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Lawyers for the federal government argue that California legislators relied too heavily on race in creating the new electoral lines, which were approved by voters in a ballot measure earlier this month.

According to POLITICO, Newsom’s proposal was first conceived as a bluff to try to dissuade Texas legislators from going through with their plan.

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The book bolstered efforts by labor organizers to unionize service workers and influenced some legislators to seek to increase the minimum wage.

Over the summer, state legislators bulked up the state’s film and TV tax credit program and agreed to more than double the annual amount allocated to it.

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The legislator was teaching a section of Campaign University, a series of online lessons he and others associated with Fort Worth-based megachurch Mercy Culture created to raise up so-called “spirit-led candidates.”

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