State legislatures的意思|示意

Tea Party groups and candidates have pushed for a repeal of the 17th Amendment, which took the power to elect United States senators out of the hands of state legislatures.

茶党(在美国中期选举出现的一个党派)和他的候选人正在努力推动废除第17修正案，这样可以将美国参议员的选举权从州议会的手中夺走。

Forty states forecast having an increase in tax receipts in the current fiscal year, according to a forthcoming report by the National Conference of state Legislatures.

四十个州预报在当前的财政年度税捐收入会增加，根据国家立法机关全国性会议的一份即将来临的报告。

In the new nation emerged two kinds of bank -the commercial Banks chartered by state legislatures and the bank of the United States deriving its authority by act of the U.S.Congress.

建立之初的美国出现了两类银行，即由州议会特许成立的商业银行与由美国国会法案批准成立的美利坚银行。

Data compiled by Rutgers shows women currently hold 16.6 percent of the 535 seats in Congress and 23.5 percent of the seats in state legislatures.

拉特·格斯大学整理的数据表明：最近，女性占据16.6%的美国国会席位，即535个；在州议会中占据23.5%的席位。

But it is also used to apportion seats in the House of Representatives and draw boundaries for state legislatures and school boards.

但人口普查仍用于众议院席位的分配及法定州界和学区的划定。

Karl Kurtz, of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), says that lawmakers in many states had a good excuse last week for working on Martin Luther King's birthday, a federal holiday.

NCSL的卡尔库尔特（Karl Kurtz）说道，很多州的立法者对上周在马丁路德金（Martin Luther King）的生日那天（联邦法定假日）继续工作都备有绝好的借口。