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| 8691313257 | pork - barrel legislation | Bills that benefit legislator's home districts, or powerful corporate contributors, with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects. | 0 | |
| 8691316028 | Senatorial courtesy | an unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states. | 1 | |
| 8691320765 | Trustee | Concept of British statesman Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences. | 2 | |
| 8691325952 | Instructed delegate | legislature who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents | 3 | |
| 8691329235 | Speaker | the presiding officer and most powerful member of the House of Representatives.The speaker is technically elected by the Full House but in practice is chosen by the majority party | 4 | |
| 8691333933 | Whip | legislative leader of each party who is responsible for rounding up party members for important votes- votes that are important showing who will win the presidency. | 5 | |
| 8691342179 | Committee of the Whole | a device that allow the House of Rep. to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members. | 6 | |
| 8691347983 | recorded vote | vote in the house of rep. In which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record. | 7 | |
| 8691350361 | Filibuster | process by which a single senator, or a group of senators,can sometimes talk a bill to death and prevent it from coming to a vote. | 8 | |
| 8691354332 | Hold | practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation, a nomination, or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them. | 9 | |
| 8691356242 | Cloture | Senate procedure to cut off a filibuster by a vote of ⅗(60) of the entire senate | 10 | |
| 8691370435 | Special Committees | Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. | 11 | |
| 8691373698 | conference committees | committee composed of the House and Senate that tries to reconcile disagreements between the | 12 | |
| 8691376747 | Seniority system | A system, until modified and reformed in the 1970s, that automatically resulted in the selection as committee chair of those members of the majority party in Congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee | 13 | |
| 8691383866 | authorization | laws passed by congress that recommended levels of funding for federal programs. | 14 | |
| 8691387224 | Appropriations bills | bills passed by congress to pay for the spending it has authorized | 15 | |
| 8691391200 | legislation veto | provision of law which congress asserts the power to nullify actions of the executive branch. In 1983 the Supreme Court ruled that the "legislative veto" was unconstitutional, but Congress continued to pass laws containing such provisions. | 16 | |
| 8691394176 | Bill of attainer | an act of legislature finding a person guilty of treason or felony without trial. | 17 | |
| 8693200157 | Standing committees | the permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigation. | 18 | |
| 8693205578 | Joint committees | Committees of Congress composed of both representatives sentatives and senators. | 19 |
