While the Whigs made bitter speeches about the failure of the party's legislative program, Tyler worked to improve relations with Britain.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

They agreed to a single primary for all candidates from any party, or no party, in congressional,statewide and legislative races.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

On election day, the legislative candidates supporting Lincoln won four thousand more popular votes than the candidates supporting Douglas.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

The president said he expected the Senate to quickly make a last set of legislative fixes needed in the new law.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

During the struggle over the bank bills, the Whigs did not forget the other parts of Senator Clay's legislative program.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Inaugurations are held at the United States Capitol - the legislative building with the big white dome.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the Democrats would not start the legislative process all over again.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

While he was best known for his legislative battles for America's poor and disabled people, Senator Kennedy was also a leader in foreign policy.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

So Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had to depend on legislative support to get to Washington.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Hoover told the nation: "Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive decision."

VOA: special.2011.02.24

Travis Plunkett is legislative director of the Consumer Federation of America, a consumer rights group.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

The force of the supporters' arguments, or perhaps some legislative tricks, buffaloed the opponents.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

It used a method of attaching "riders" to legislative proposals.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Clay proposed detailed legislative programs for the new administration.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Congress is the legislative branch of government.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

"When you look at the content of this legislative career, spanning a whole breadth of public policy,health policy, social policy,foreign policy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Politicians such as Suzuki who maintain Web sites during the legislative session must freeze content during the campaign period.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

He spoke to an audience of more than 1,000 people as he came off a legislative victory that partially realized his goal.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

The entire legislative schedule is even more compressed as lawmakers and the White House increasingly turn their focus to the November mid-term congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

But Kennedy was also known to cross party lines to forge legislative deals with Republicans.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Some observers are concerned that complicated technical details, the sheer volume of work and possible legislative hurdles could delay ratification of a new START agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

LCV Legislative director Tiernan Sittenfeld says this year's scorecard reflects an ambitious legislative agenda for the environment in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But the bill to open such trade still faces heavy opposition in Congress and probably will not be debated until after the legislative body's August break.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Democratic leaders have said they are committed to bringing the Iran sanctions bill to a vote before the House completes its legislative work for the year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

They were outnumber by the opponents. But they could sense a legislative victory.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Treasury Secretary Geithner said the Obama administration will continue working with House and Senate lawmakers on details of the proposal as it moves into final legislative form.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

They will have all of August to review the various legislative proposals."

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

But while both the House and Senate bills aim to help the roughly 30 million Americans with no health care insurance, there are big differences in legislative language.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25