Catchword: snooker clause

Filed under: English, United States, Politics

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: It is called a “snooker clause” in legislative parlance—a last-minute insert into a dense and hurried midnight bill that, if ever disclosed after passage, always leaves legislators shocked, shocked at how such an undemocratic bit of mischief ever came to be.

Article or document title:
“Snookering the Taxpayers” (URL)

Article, document, publication, web site:
New York Times

Date of publication:
Nov. 24, 2004

Page number:
A22

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