11.   Legislators made no major changes to the budget, which was presented to Congress in early September.

12.   Legislators make their grant requests based on their personal and political calculations.

13.   Legislators made little progress over the weekend.

14.   Notice how legislators never make that argument for state income taxes or for their own salary increases.

15.   Officials noted that the governor and Republican legislators have made property-tax relief their first priority this year.

16.   Others experienced with the agonizing decision a legislator must make on the death penalty thought otherwise.

17.   Rules in every state differ, and major party legislators have made many ballot-access laws as burdensome as possible to discourage competition from smaller parties.

18.   There is much disputed evidence in the case about the particular choices the legislators made and why they made them, and that dispute continued in the courtroom Monday.

19.   There are no easy answers to drugs, but naive Dutch legislators have made a hash of drug policy.

20.   Abbadi said the legislators were making the trip as private citizens, not as representatives of the Jordanian government or Parliament.