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- 1964 — Arlen J. Large, "Several Proposals Dropped From '64 Bill Stand a Good Chance of Eventual Passage", The Wall Street Journal, 28 February 1964:
- Some proposals left on the cutting-room floor this time are candidates for inclusion in the Revenue Act of 19??.
- 1972 — James Kilpatrick, "School Tax Credits For Diversity", Ocala Star-Banner, 26 October 1972:
- The plan won approval from the House Ways and Means Committee Oct. 3, but in the rush to adjournment the bill died on the cutting-room floor.
- 1985 — Randy Wynn, "Changes, haste to adjourn led House to OK fiscal bill", The Vindicator, 20 December 1985:
- Also left on the cutting room floor was language authored by Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, placing nuclear nonproliferation restrictions on the new U.S. nuclear sales agreement with China.
- 1998 — Dan Morain, "Legislators Are Expected to OK Budget Accord", Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1998:
- Some Democrats in the Assembly are angry over the lack of an agreement to grant state workers a pay raise, even as Wilson and the leaders agreed to a 7.9% hike in grants to welfare recipients. A few complained that their hometown projects were left on the cutting room floor.
- 2000 — Karen Tumulty, "The Women Who Made Al Gore", CNN, 14 August 2000:
- But Karenna recalls that other family commitments often "ended up on the cutting-room floor"--until little Albert's accident.
- 2009 — Jennifer Steinhauer, "In Budget Deal, California Shuts $41 Billion Gap", The New York Times, 19 February 2009:
- Left on the cutting-room floor was a proposed 12-cent increase in the gasoline tax; lawmakers filled the gap instead with $600 million in cuts and an infusion of federal stimulus money.
- 2011 — Murray Whyte, "Review: Photographer Stan Douglas’s Entertainment at the Power Plant", Toronto Star, 15 December 2011:
- But to think Midcentury Studio is only about photography is to leave the bulk of Douglas’s intentions on the cutting room floor.