Sentence examples for obscure procedure from inspiring English sources

The request aims to use an obscure procedure called "rescission" to claw back unspent funds from previously approved accounts, money many Republicans and administration officials argue is lying unused anyway.

In the budget blueprint for the coming year, Democrats may resort to an obscure procedure known as reconciliation to clear the way for Senate passage of a comprehensive health bill with a 51-vote majority, rather than the 60 votes that would otherwise be needed.

Coffman vows he will immediately file a "discharge petition" for the Bridge Act — an obscure procedure traditionally used by the minority party to force a bill to the floor.

Congress has made some notable moves too, using an obscure procedure to rescind three late Obama-era federal agency rules and indefinitely block the introduction of similar new rules a tactic experts say we're likely to see more of in the near future and passing a few minor bills.

Obscure procedures and the democratic deficit in the European Union are causing mistrust among the citizens and exacerbating the crisis of confidence in the European institutions, as recently expressed in the extremely poor turnout at the European elections.

There is no obscure parliamentary procedure or elegantly crafted amendment that changes the cost-benefit equation.

The Liberals are using an obscure parliamentary procedure to delay a confidence vote.

Yesterday May was trying to obscure in procedure her contempt of parliamentary democracy, so I wanted to do something simple to show what she was up to.

The new budget system created in the seventies also set up the obscure parliamentary procedure known as reconciliation, which in the Senate is not subject to a filibuster.

Meadows, who had no legislative experience, filed an obscure parliamentary procedure known as a motion to vacate that would have forced a referendum on Boehner in the House.

In the immediate aftermath of Scalia's death, there was also talk especially among the conservative media about Obama taking advantage of some obscure parliamentary procedure to make a legally valid recess appointment that would bypass the Senate confirmation process.