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- adjective Not
germane ;irrelevant .
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Working with majority leader Robert Byrd, I threw out a huge stack of obstructionist amendments with a series of rapid-fire parliamentary rulings because Senate rules required the presiding officer to reject them as nongermane, or “dilatory.”
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Working with majority leader Robert Byrd, I threw out a huge stack of obstructionist amendments with a series of rapid-fire parliamentary rulings because Senate rules required the presiding officer to reject them as nongermane, or “dilatory.”
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Working with majority leader Robert Byrd, I threw out a huge stack of obstructionist amendments with a series of rapid-fire parliamentary rulings because Senate rules required the presiding officer to reject them as nongermane, or “dilatory.”
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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This CRS piece also discusses nongermane amendments, and says they are prohibited in reconciliation, but the prohibition can be waived with a 3/5ths assent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional? 2010
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And would it not seem so … nongermane, we could spend our entire lives pitched in its attempt.
Cigarette Molehill 2010
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This CRS piece also discusses nongermane amendments, and says they are prohibited in reconciliation, but the prohibition can be waived with a 3/5ths assent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional? 2010
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President Obama last week signed a much-discussedcredit card reform bill, after Congress attached an utterly nongermane provision having more to do with reloading than refinancing.
Michael Markarian: Wildlife Pays the Interest on Credit Card Reform 2009
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President Obama last week signed a much-discussedcredit card reform bill, after Congress attached an utterly nongermane provision having more to do with reloading than refinancing.
Michael Markarian: Wildlife Pays the Interest on Credit Card Reform 2009
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Perhaps you and Ann Coulter can go back to the drawing board and cease your efforts to smear any and every upstanding Democrat on nongermane premises.
99th House District 2007
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President Obama last week signed a much-discussedcredit card reform bill, after Congress attached an utterly nongermane provision having more to do with reloading than refinancing.
Michael Markarian: Wildlife Pays the Interest on Credit Card Reform 2009
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