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“The total incentive pay determination process is informed by performance assessments, but annual incentive payouts are ultimately discretionarily determined,” advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services wrote in a report recommending clients vote no.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

A June 24 memo, for instance, states that “field offices no longer have the option to discretionarily release aliens.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Whether that authority should be more or less than congress then discretionarily exercised was not the question.

From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man by Conway, Moncure Daniel