Sentence examples for discharge rule from inspiring English sources

Many readers suggested that I prematurely dismissed the potential of the discharge rule.

When I wrote about the discharge rule earlier this week, I concluded that technical and political barriers rendered the discharge rule an unlikely tool for securing a House vote on a continuing resolution (CR) to temporarily fund the government.

First, although the popularity of the discharge rule ebbs and flows, one thing is constant: It rarely succeeds.

Speaker Cannon's opponents created the discharge rule more than a century ago to undermine a recalcitrant Speaker's grip on the House.

The House discharge rule allows a majority of the chamber to pry a bill or resolution out of committee over objections by party and committee leaders.

That would be a natural target of a discharge rule, as would a special rule written and referred to the Rules Committee to bring the bill to the House floor.

The move came just over two weeks before the new loan discharge rules were to take effect on July 1.

In the public interest category, The Nation won for articles by Joshua Kors on how military discharge rules deprived some wounded veterans of medical and disability benefits.

John Richter, director of assisted living for the New York Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, which represents operators of nonprofit adult homes, said homes often sought waivers from the discharge rules for individual residents.

Some families of Alterra residents complained to the state about strict enforcement of state discharge rules, while others sued or settled with the company over incidents in which frail residents may have received inadequate care.

Elion Chemical in China is working with General Electric to recycle 90% of its wastewater to comply with Beijing's strict new "zero-liquid discharge" rules, which bar companies from dumping wastewater into the environment.