Sentence examples for rescinded items from inspiring English sources
The problem with that is that Congress put the rescinded items into the bill in the first place.
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.
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.
An early sign of this modesty came in the spring, when Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, rescinded an offer to buy Old Trees after a small news item about the deal appeared in The New York Post.
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.
After The New York Times inquired about the member items, Senate officials said that they violated Senate policy, and that they had been rescinded.
A spokesman for the Senate Republicans, John McArdle, confirmed that "these were member items that were put in at Mr. Espada's request," but that the grants had been rescinded after a reporter raised the issue.
Construction loans were rescinded.
Invitations are rescinded.
Grant rescinded he order.
