take up a bill in a sentence

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1. A Parliament committee Thursday takes up a bill that criminalizes money laundering, a growing problem in Turkey's increasingly free-for-all economy.
2. I don't know that we want to take up a bill in the larger context right off the bat ."
3. The session, which begins May 21, also will take up a bill to ameliorate the country's water crisis and " other urgent bills,"
4. On Monday the House is slated to take up a bill to streamline deportation of criminal aliens after they finish serving their sentences.
5. Expecting repeal by the Senate, House leaders said they planned later this week to take up a bill to nullify the workplace regulations.
6. CLONING-WASHINGTON _ The House takes up a bill to prohibit human cloning that could have some consequnces on the debate ove stem cell research.
7. Today, the abortion issue will burst onto the floor as the House takes up a bill to ban a specific type of late-term abortions.
8. On Wednesday, a House subcommittee is scheduled to take up a bill that is designed to increase copyright protections for information on the Internet.
9. Nor did Congress take up a bill that Rep . Sam Graves, R-Mo ., submitted in October to cap post-enlistment rates at 36 percent.
10. Next month the Massachusetts Legislature is expected to take up a bill that would ban unhealthy vending machines from schools and require more physical education.