The bill's authors had also included a provision that would have allowed legislators to own as much as 5 percent of gambling companies.

The Government has wisely allowed legislators to choose between this approach and one of the Warnock minority alternatives.

But any reservations about the project were moot because of the new open budget process, which allowed rank-and-file legislators to debate budget priorities in public meetings.

Critics have charged, however, that current practice has allowed legislators to deploy workers to campaigns with impunity.

The law and the decision not only ended the "war"; they allowed legislators to take the anti-abortion lead from protesters for the first time in over a decade.

Term limits went into effect in Ohio in 1992, allowing legislators from that point on to only serve eight consecutive years in one chamber.

Congressional ethics rules allow legislators to accept certain gifts from friends when they are of limited value and are promptly reported.

The pay raise included a provision allowing legislators to take their raises immediately in the form of "unvouchered expenses."

By the modification of the method of reviewing appropriations bills, he allowed legislators more participation in the budgeting process.

To have competitive elections, we must stop allowing legislators to choose their constituents by redistricting.