rescission
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The D.A.’s office pushed for a rescission hearing, which was granted in August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Federal officials said the rescission will remove the national designation of roadless areas but does not mandate timber cutting or road construction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“This rescission ends the policy prohibiting such criticism by settling defendants.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Similarly, a mistake can justify rescission when both parties are wrong about an essential fact, the law firm says.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
But everyone recognised his mistake, and how could a church be nationalised better than by the rescission of the decree?
From The Untilled Field by George (George Augustus) Moore
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 a final agreement isn’t reached by Friday, the rescissions package will expire and the funds will remain available.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 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
Simpson said that without such rescissions, as they are called in Washington, he couldn’t vote for the agriculture spending bill because the cuts “would have just been devastating.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
I submitted to the last Congress a list of budget deferrals and rescissions.
From State of the Union Address by Gerald R. Ford
