legislator
Example Sentences
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Raman was labeled a “progressive LA City Councilmember focused on housing affordability, homelessness and systemic reform,” while Bass was “incumbent mayor of Los Angeles, veteran legislator, focused on homelessness.”
From Los Angeles Times
"That's the only way to get the ear of legislators in Washington."
From Barron's
As the business community’s primary mouthpiece, he has met with the mayor and state legislators and warned them that higher taxes could cause the city’s business elite to flee.
Federal legislators are challenging private equity’s influence in multiple industries beyond child care, including housing and healthcare.
In California, state legislators are debating how to protect residents and natural resources without creating so much red tape that developers go elsewhere, taking their jobs and taxable earnings with them.
From Los Angeles Times
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