#legislature

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#card #change #i #i tried #legislature

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#colleges #cut #cuts #education #funding

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#addressed #already #being #computer #congress

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this. ↗

— Marc Morial

#business #business community #city #city council #closely

Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law. ↗

— Zack de la Rocha

#apply #arizona #artists #between #commercial

No state legislature ever built a great university. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#ever #great #legislature #state #state legislature

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#billy #both #business #career #decisions

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#laughs #legislature #man #only #state

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#design #how #intelligent #legislature #look

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#always #bipartisan #came #controlled #deficit