If legislators fail to push the power reform bill through this week, she said, "it suggests they can't get anything done."

Other speakers warned that if legislators fail to provide relief they will be swept out of office.

In the last decade, administrations, and legislators from both political parties, have failed to pump enough money into the pension fund.

The situation has grown so complex, he said, that many legislators fail to fully understand the issues involved.

To assure Senate passage at that time, the legislators failed to include provisions to enforce the law.

The promise was widely seen as hollow; legislators had tried before and failed.

But the legislators failed to set a date for a new election, as the country's opposition leader and diplomats in Europe have demanded.

Ever since, legislators from both political parties have failed to pump enough money into the fund.

But half the legislators failed to show up.

He was handed the redistricting job in July after legislators failed to reach an agreement.