"We must be prepared to provide the congressmen with a simple action plan and legislative language."
They set up the government so that nothing could become law without both chambers passing the exact same legislative language.
Wickham was given the task of putting into legislative language the decisions the group made.
In some cases, legislative language may direct federal agencies to spend funds for specific projects.
Business groups who were on his side held back their support until they had seen the actual legislative language.
Indeed, they have not even been written in formal legislative language.
House rules prohibit writing legislative language on a spending bill.
Some supporters of the administration plan suggest that it could happen quite a lot; the legislative language seems more restrictive.
"There will be enormous differences between the proposal and the legislative language, when it gets written."
There are efforts right now to craft the right legislative language.