rescission
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“This rescission ends the policy prohibiting such criticism by settling defendants.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“If you are seeking rescission of a written contract, the claim is probably subject to a four-year statute of limitations.”
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Even McConnell voted to approve the $9-billion rescission request.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
Corrections & Amplifications: The $9 billion in rescission bills passed Congress in July.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2025
There was to be a restitution of property, honors, and offices, and a rescission of judicial sentences.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
“The appropriations bills, reconciliation, rescissions, all the different tools we are using. . . . It’s the end of futility,” Mr. Vought says in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
From then on, presidents had to request rescissions from Congress—essentially asking permission to withhold funds after they had been included in an appropriations bill.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2025
“If Congress wanted a president to have that authority, it would need to change the law,” the GAO wrote in a post on pocket rescissions earlier this month.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2025
Similarly, the significant health and climate benefits sacrificed with these rescissions disproportionately harm people with compromised health and communities with high exposure to pollution or weather impacts.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2025
I submitted to the last Congress a list of budget deferrals and rescissions.
From State of the Union Address by Gerald R. Ford
