as in legislator
a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws
the state's lawmakers worked long into the night drafting a bill that would be acceptable to everyone
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The House and Senate budget resolution passed last week contains very different instructions for committees in the two chambers that lawmakers will eventually need to stitch them together.
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Aris Folley, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
The lawmaker also revealed Friday that he had been moved from the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador to another prison.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
As part of her rounds, the Republican lawmaker appeared in Anchorage before an annual meeting of tribal leaders and nonprofit executives.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Washington’s Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act, meanwhile, were more likely historic anomalies than first steps in a broader trend toward greater industrial policy, given the uneasiness among Republican lawmakers over their passage.
—Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2025
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Aris Folley, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
The lawmaker also revealed Friday that he had been moved from the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador to another prison.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
As part of her rounds, the Republican lawmaker appeared in Anchorage before an annual meeting of tribal leaders and nonprofit executives.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Washington’s Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act, meanwhile, were more likely historic anomalies than first steps in a broader trend toward greater industrial policy, given the uneasiness among Republican lawmakers over their passage.
—Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2025
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“Lawmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lawmaker. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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