111.   Nonetheless, congressional Republicans are determined to overrule the voters, and the lawmakers have the power to do it.

112.   Now lawmakers will have to wait until today, when the legislative session opens, to find out how much spending money they will have for the biennium.

113.   None of this is to say that black and Hispanic lawmakers do not have reservations about charter schools.

114.   On both sides, lawmakers will have to do distasteful things for a higher good.

115.   Now, state lawmakers have another chance.

116.   One lawmaker even has a bill in this year that would ban smoking in automobiles when kids are in the car.

117.   Other lawmakers have proposed alternatives.

118.   Our lawmakers have since relented a bit, finally allowing domestic violence to be considered in murder cases.

119.   Recruiting and retention problems have become so serious that some conservatives in Congress have suggested that lawmakers might have to revive the draft if the trend worsens.

120.   Ramstad argued that lawmakers should have an opportunity to review the tax break before it was permanently enacted into law.