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- 3. made of two houses called the senate and the house of representatives
- 4. the majority party has the power to select the leaders of that body
- 8. Each state’s population determines the number of representatives it will have for the next 10 years
- 9. study one specific issue and report their findings to the Senate or the House
- 11. passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives
- 15. because members represent districts, they serve on committees that are important to
- 18. is the principal formal method by which United States congressional committees collect and analyze information in the early stages of legislative policymaking
- 21. closed meeting of the majority party chooses the Speaker of the House at the start of each session of Congress
- 23. is to change by adding, subtracting, or substituting
- 24. Senators can end a filibuster by voting for a or Sixty senators must vote for
- 26. a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- 28. s influencing or attempting to influence legislative action or nonaction through oral or written communication or an attempt to obtain the goodwill of a member or employee of the Legislature
- 29. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
- 30. specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
- 31. a person who takes part in an organized attempt to influence legislators
- 32. an official or executive ranking below and deputizing for a president
- 33. a discussion or argument carried on between two teams or sides
- 34. gives power to the government to withdraw funds from the Consolidated Fund of India for meeting the expenditure during the financial year
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- 1. a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law
- 2. The Speaker’s top assistant
- 5. can influence proceedings by deciding which members to recognize first
- 6. each congressional term is two sessions
- 7. considers all bills reported from policy and fiscal committees and determines whether and in what order to schedule their consideration
- 10. power of the President to refuse to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevent its enactment into law
- 12. states would draw district boundaries to give one political party an electoral advantage
- 13. to preside over the Senate in the absence of the vice president
- 14. leave of the house or leave of the senate is a situation in which no member present objects to a proposal
- 16. who serve as assistant floor leaders in the House
- 17. they stand, or continue, from one legislative session to the next
- 19. a group of people that seeks to influence public policy on the basis of a particular common interest
- 20. a temporary committee that is set up when the House and Senate have passed different versions of a bill
- 22. the Speaker of the House follows the vice president in the line
- 25. the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly
- 27. members who were already in office, won reelection