Sentence examples for rescind items from inspiring English sources

Under existing law, a president can send Congress a request to rescind items in spending bills after a bill is signed into law, but if Congress does not approve the request within 45 working days, the money must be released.

The problem with that is that Congress put the rescinded items into the bill in the first place.

A president would have 45 working days after signing a spending bill into law to submit to Congress items to rescind, the administration official said, and Congress would have 25 days to act.

Aides said his proposal would let the president sign a bill while sending back to Congress a list of spending items he rejects, after which legislation rescinding any of those items would be guaranteed a swift up-or-down vote.

So on Friday, the United States put forward an agenda item suggesting that Unesco rescind the prize "in view of the strong global reaction to the establishment" of the prize and "its negative impact on the credibility, prestige and basic values of Unesco".

Under his proposal, the president could not nix part of a spending bill; he could, however, temporarily freeze a spending item and request that Congress rescind it.

The State Office of Policy and Management on Wednesday released a list of $170 million in spending reductions that fell under the governor's powers to rescind appropriations by up to 5 percent of any line item and 3 percent of any fund without seeking legislative approval.

Philip Pullman, the Society's president, called the rules which place a blanket ban on families sending in small items to prisoners – thus preventing the receipt of books – "despicable", and called on Grayling to rescind the "mean and vindictive piece of legislation" at once.

(Chiarelli refused to rescind the reprimand).

Several are threatening to rescind their contributions.

One is to rescind these rules administratively.