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- permanently established legislative committees that consider and are responsible for legislation within a certain subject area
- Provides that debate in the Senate could be cut off if two-thirds of the Senators present and voting agreed to a cloture motion
- an order from the house rules committee that permits a bill to be amended on the floor
- A system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee
- a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president
- Divisions of existing committees formed to address specific issues
- the leader of the majority party who serves as the presiding officer of the House of Representatives
- 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.
- 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
- Districts in which incumbents win by margins of 55 percent or more
- leader of the majority party in a legislature
- process occurring when party leaders give more than one committee responsibility for considering a bill
- a president's authority to reject a bill passed by Congress; may only be overridden by a two-thirds majority in each house
- An institution unique to the House of Representatives that reviews all bills (except revenue, budget, and appropriations bills) coming from a House committee before they go to the full House.
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- the term during which some position is held
- a congressional voting procedure in which members stand and are counted
- congressional committees on a few subject-matter areas with membership drawn from both houses.
- a rule used by the senate to end or limit debate