How to Use reauthorize in a Sentence

reauthorize

verb
Definition of reauthorizenext
  • Yeah, because Congress did not reauthorize the program.
    — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • Now, the vote has headed to the desk of President Biden, who has called for it to be reauthorized.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Biden, who sponsored the 1994 law, vowed to push Congress to reauthorize it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The program will expire at the end of this year if not reauthorized by Congress.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Lawmakers have until the end of September to reauthorize the agency for the next five years.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The Higher Education Act has been reauthorized nine times, the last in 2022.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 30 June 2023
  • In New York, global health leaders have called on Congress to reauthorize the program.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The Senate is set to take up a bill to reauthorize a series of crucial taxes that fund Medicaid.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The larger payments are set to expire at the end of this year unless lawmakers reauthorize them as part of the Build Back Better Act.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Congress will have another chance at reform later this year when the program is reauthorized as part of the farm bill.
    — Chris Edwards, National Review, 12 June 2023
  • The farm bill, which must be reauthorized every five years, is set to expire Sept. 30, and there are concerns that Congress is moving too slowly on the new bill.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The bill would reauthorize a program that matches bone marrow donors and cord blood units with patients who have leukemia and other diseases.
    — Daniella Diaz, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Since then, Congress has reauthorized the program every five years.
    — Ashish Jha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Congress is currently facing down a May 10th deadline to reauthorize the FAA — that’s just a week from today.
    — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 3 May 2024
  • The bill would also reauthorize highway funding that is set to expire this weekend.
    — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
  • With the Senate in recess all of August and only set to return Tuesday, there’s been no movement on reauthorizing the rule.
    — Rebecca Santana, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • That’s why the U.S. Congress’ delay in reauthorizing this program has been so difficult to hear about.
    — Sergey Strashuk and Vira Horovenko, STAT, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Congress should reauthorize and enhance this program to meet this moment.
    — Julie Wraithmell, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Since then, anti-trafficking advocates have pushed for the law to be reauthorized every few years.
    — Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
  • Voters in Olmos Park also approved a proposition to reauthorize the local sales and use tax rate of 0.25 percent.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2022
  • The measure seeks to improve air travel, which has been plagued by delays and cancellations during its busiest times, and would reauthorize FAA programs for the next five years.
    — Kevin Freking and David Koenig, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • Funk said that when the Farm Bill was reauthorized in 2021 with regulations for the production of hemp, that's when the flood gates opened not only for them but also other companies.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The bill was originally passed in 2003 under George W. Bush and has been reauthorized on a bipartisan basis four times.
    — Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Congress must reauthorize the bill every five years, which involves marathon talks that are reliable for partisan stare-downs.
    — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Attempts over the years to reauthorize the main law governing higher education have stalled on Capitol Hill.
    — Arkansas Online, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Cruz demanded a full accounting to Congress on the mass outage, and called for reforms before lawmakers reauthorize the FAA this year.
    — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The legislation would reauthorize and expand the center.
    — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • This summer, the House overwhelmingly voted to reauthorize it.
    — Rebecca Santana, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Last month, the Texas Legislature failed to reauthorize a generous business incentives program known as Chapter 313, referring to its place in the state tax code.
    — Dallas News, 11 June 2021
  • The Democratic bill to reauthorize the current infrastructure program was unveiled this month.
    — Josh Wingrove, Fortune, 16 June 2020

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