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List 7 vocab
Gov vocab list 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Speaker of the House | The presiding officer of the House of Representatives |
| President of the Senate | The presiding officer of the Senate |
| President pro tempore | The second highest ranking official of the United States Senate |
| Party caucus | A meeting of the local members of a political party especially to select delegates to a convention or register preferences for candidates running for office |
| Floor leader | The spokesmen from both major parties, elected by their parties |
| Whip | An official in a political part whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature |
| Committee chairman | 4th highest ranking leader in each party. They are the research arms of the party's conference |
| Seniority rule | Rule in the U.S. Congress by which members each their choice of committee assignments in order of rank based solely of length of service. |
| Standing Committee | Permanent committee especially of a legislative body |
| Select committee | a committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to deal with particular areas of issues originating in the Westminster system of parliamentary democract |
| joint committee | a committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicameral legislature |
| conference committee | joint committee of a bicameral legislature which is appointee by, and consists of, members of both chambers to resolve disagreements on a particular bill. |
| bill | the first step in making a law |
| Joint Resolution | A legislative measure that requires approval by the senate and the house and is presented to the president from his aapproval or disapproval in exactly the same case as a bill |
| concurrent resolution | a resolution adopted by both houses of a bicameral legislature that lacks the force of law |
| resolution | a written motion adopted by a deliberative body |
| rider | an additional provision added to a biull or other measure under the consideration by a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill. |
| Discharge petition | a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee and usually without cooperation of the leadership |
| subcommittee | a subset of a larger comitttee |
| committee of the whole | a device in which a legislative body or other deliberative assembly is considered one large committee |
| Quorum | the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly |
| engrossed | the official copy of a bill or joint resolution passed by the house of the senate |
| Filibuster | procedure where debate is extended, allowing one or more members to delay or entirely prevent a cote on a given proposal |
| veto | the power to unilaterally stop an official action especially the enactment of legislation |
| pocket veto | a legislatice maneuver in lawmaking that allows a president or other official with veto power effectively to exercise that power over a bill by taking no action |
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