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| Permanently established legislative committees that consider and are responsible for legislation within a certain subject area. | ||
| Congressional committees appointed for a limited time and purpose. | ||
| Committees on which both senators and representatives serve. | ||
| A joint committee appointed to resolce differences in the Senate and House versions of the same bill. | ||
| written authorization to cast another person's vote | ||
| A politically neutral body, this Service looks up information for Congressman's inquiries. , staff agency that employs many people with advance academic training to respond to more than a quarter of a million questions a year. | ||
| reviews spending activities of federal agencies, studies programs, and recommends ways to spend taxpayers' dollars wisely | ||
| Congressional agency of budget experts who assess the feasibility of the president's plan and who help create Congress's version of the federal budget. | ||
| A legislative bill that deals with matters of general concern. | ||
| A legislative bill that deals only with specific, private, personal, or local matters. | ||
| An expression of opinion either in the House or Senate to settle procedural matters in either body. | ||
| An expression of opinion without the force of law that requires the approval of both the House and the Senate, but not the President. | ||
| A formal expression of congressional opinion that must be approved by both houses of Congress and by the president; constitutional amendments need not be signed by the president. | ||
| A congressional process whereby a bill may be referred to several committees. | ||
| A congressional process by which a speaker may send a bill to a second committee after the first is finished acting. | ||
| A decide by which any member of the House, after a committee has had the bill for thirty days, may petition to have it brought to the floor. | ||
| An order from the House Rules Committee that sets a time limit on debate; forbids a bill from being amended on the floor. | ||
| An order from the House Rules Committee that permits certain kinds of amendments but not others to be made into a bill on the floor. | ||
| An order from the House Rules Committee that permits certain kinds of amendments but not others to be made into a bill on the floor. | ||
| On Wednesdays the list of committees of the House is called more or less in alphabetical order, and any committee can bring up for action a bill of its own already on a calendar. Action on a bill brought to the floor on Calendar Wednesday must be completed that day, or the bill goes back to committee. Since major bills rarely can be voted on in one day, this procedure is not often used. | ||
| The minimum number of members who must be present for business to be conducted in Congress. | ||
| A roll call in either house of Congress to see whether the minimum number of representatives required to conduct business is present. | ||
| a clause that is appended to a legislative bill | ||
| A bill with many riders. | ||
| A rule used by the Senate to end or limit debate. | ||
| A procedure to keep the Senate going during a filibuster in which the disputed bill is shelved temporarily so that the Senate can get on with other business. | ||
| A congressional voting procedure in which members shout "yea" in approval or "nay" in disapproval, permitting members to cote quickly or anonymously on bills. | ||
| A congressional voting procedure in which members stand and are counted. | ||
| A congressional voting procedure in which members pass between two tellers, the "yeas" first and the "nays" second. | ||
| A congressional voting procedure that consists of members answering "yea" or "nay" to their names. | ||
| Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their cotes in return. | ||
| The ability of members to mail letters to their constituents free of charge by substituting their facsimile for postage. |
