nongermane

DelBene’s amendment was ruled nongermane, and Republicans rejected an attempt to overturn the ruling.

“He goes further than he needs to, with intemperate, nonjudicious and nongermane elaborations,” he said.

She didn’t explicitly say that the climate amendments are nongermane.

Representative Marcy Kaptur, Democrat of Ohio and a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, criticized the $1.1 trillion spending measure as “a Christmas tree bill,” decorated with “dangerous and unwelcome, nongermane riders.”

"You have a much more diverse workforce today, and that kind of entertaining is viewed as nongermane to the client relationship," said Charles Elson, Director, John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.