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Unit 3
Legislative Branch Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cloture | AN agreement by three fifths of the members of the Senate to end debate on a bill and allow a vote on it |
| Bill | A proposed law |
| Bicameral | Two-house, as in a legislature with two houses |
| Census | AN official count of the population made every ten years to find out how many representatives for each state |
| Impeachment | the process by which a legislative body formally levels charges against a high official of government. |
| Appropriations | the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission. |
| Speaker of the House | The presiding officer of the house of representatives |
| Filibuster | The use of long speeches to prevent a vote on a bill in the senate |
| lobbyist | People who represent interest groups |
| interest groups | Groups of people who work together for similar interests or goals |
| Majority Party | A major party is a political party that holds substantial influence in a country's politics, standing in contrast to a minor party. |
| Redistricting | Redistricting is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries in the United States. |
| Vice president | is an officer in government or business who is below a president |
| Constituents | The people a member of congress represents |
| Legislative Branch | Headed by Congress, which includes the House of Representatives and the Senate. |
| Standing committee | a permanent committee that meets regularly. |
| Expulsion | the action of depriving someone of membership in an organization. |
| Re-appointment | The act of appointing, designating, or placing in office: to fill a vacancy by appointment. |
| President Pro-tempore | Coinciding with the rise of the new Republican majority in the upper chamber |
| Conference committee | a committee of the United States Congress appointed by the House of Representatives and Senate to resolve disagreements on a particular bill. |
| Joint session | A joint session of the United States Congress is a gathering of members of the two chambers of the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States |
| Implied powers | grants Congress a set of so-called implied powers—that is, powers not explicitly named in the Constitution but assumed to exist due to their being necessary to implement the expressed powers that are named in Article I. |
| minority Party | A minor party is a political party that plays a smaller role than a major party in a country's politics and elections. |
| Checks and Balances | The principle of separation of powers states that the executive, legislative, and judiciary powers of government should be divided into different branches and not concentrated in one. |
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