legislator

IPA: ɫˈɛdʒʌsɫeɪtɝ

Someone who creates or enacts laws
especially a member of a legislative body.
especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.

Examples of "legislator" in Sentences

“A responsible legislator is going to rely on summaries …”
Making a significant campaign contribution to a legislator is also conspiring to commit fraud.
After reading his statement below, you'll be forgiven for thinking the first-term legislator is trying to have it both ways.
What matters to the legislator is the possibility of detaching the altar from the rear wall, not the celebration versus populum.
Each individual Republican legislator is primarily interested in getting reelected and securing as much power and influence as possible.
“Each individual Republican legislator is primarily interested in getting reelected and securing as much power and influence as possible.”
Congressional rules say that requiring employees to do so could "insulate a legislator from the personal and economic interests that his or her constituency, or society in general, has in governmental decisions and policy."
"We have reservations against Maliki, and we want to come to a compromise candidate to form a strong government of national partnership, not a weak one," said Ali Shabbar, a leading Shiite legislator from the Shiite Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
I spoke with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel today, and he said to me, look, don't expect the president to become what he called legislator in chief, but folks at the White House do point out that he's on the phone constantly with legislators.