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Who is bill?
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Seperation of Power | power of goverment are divided between three branches that are independent but equal in power. |
| Checks and Balances | Each branch in goverment has seperated powers but shared powers keeping the actions of the others in check. |
| Judicial Reveiw | POwer of the supreme court to reweiw each legislative law declaring it constitutinal or not. |
| Public Policy | Any action the goverment makes in regaurds to the people. |
| Constituency | The people who vote for a certian official. |
| Adjorn | When congress ends for the session |
| Apportion | To assign the number of repersenatives per state in congress. |
| Continuious Body | Where only 2/3 of ocongress is up for election at one time. |
| Franking Privilege | Privilege where memebers of congress do not have to pay for postage. |
| Speaker of the House | The chosen leader of the majority party in the House of Represenatives. |
| PResident of the Senate | Postion held always the Vice President of the united States. |
| President Pro Tempore | Senator who presides over Senate when the vice president is absent. |
| Floor Leader | Chosen leader of the majority party. |
| Whip | Assistant o the floor leader that keeps their party memebers voting with their party on policy. |
| Committee Chairman | Congressman who is designated head of a permanate comittee. |
| Senority Rule | Those who served the longest have the best positions. |
| Standing Comittee | A comittee that is always in place. |
| Joint Comittee | A committee that includes memebers from both parties. |
| Committe of the Whole | Where the entire house becomes part of a comittee to make a policy be aproved or disaproved quickly. |
| Quorum | The minimum amount of Congressional members peresent in order to make decisions for iys particular house. |
| Filibuster | Long-winded debates which ends in a bill being defeated due to time constraints. |
| Colture | Rule that can end a floor debate in regaurds to a bill being heard such as time limits, or number of people to be heard in the debate. |
| Veto | To reject. |
| Pocket Veto | Where the president delays the signig of a bill past the time allowed. |
| Bill | a draft or proposed law presented to parliment for discussion. |
| Joint Resolution | a resolution adopted by both branches of a legislature that becomes law if signed by the chief executive. |
| Concurrent Resoulution | a resolution adopted by both houses of a legislative assembly that does not require the signature of the chief executive and that does not have the force of law. |
| Resolution | the action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter. |
| Rider | an additional provision added to a bill or other measure under the consideration by a legislature. |
| Discharge pettition | 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. Discharge petitions are most often associated with the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| Subcomitte | a committee composed of some members of a larger committee, board, or other body and reporting to it. |
| Engrossed | To write or transcribe in a large, clear hand. |
| Tabled | To postpone consideration of a peice of legislation. |
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