Congressional Leadership
This person is also the Vice President of the United States.
Who is the President of the Senate?
This committee settles House and Senate differences in a bill and creates a compromise bill.
What is the Conference Committee?
This is a proposed law.
What is a Bill?
This is when a senator attempts to kill a bill by talking it to death.
What is a filibuster?
This happens when a bill has passed through one house of Congress.
What is it is introduced in the other house?
This is a leader of the standing committees.
Who is a Committee Chairman?
This is a committee made up of members of both chambers of Congress.
What is a Joint Committee?
This word means to kill a bill in committee.
What is Pigeonhole?
This is when the president rejects a bill.
What is a veto?
This is how Congress can override a presidential veto.
What is a 2/3 vote in each house?
This is an assistant floor leader, they help "round up" votes.
Who is a whip?
This is a special committee set up for a limited time, typically to investigate an event.
What is a Select Committee?
This is a controversial addition attached to a bill likely to pass.
What is a Rider?
The President's rejection of a bill by not acting on it within 10 days of Congress adjourning.
What is a Pocket Veto?
This is what the House does with a bill after introducing and reading it for the first time.
What is it is sent to a committee and then to a subcommittee?
This is the president of the senate "for the time being."
Who is the President Pro Tempore?
This is a permanent committee that considers certain topics.
What is a Standing Committee?
This is a proposal that has the force of law, issued by both houses, and used for temporary matters.
What is a Joint Resolution?
This is a rule that limits debate in the Senate by ending a speech.
What is Cloture?
The Committee of Education and Labor is an example of this.
What is a Standing Committee?
This is the most powerful position in Congress.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This controls the flow of bills to the House floor, acting as the traffic cop of Congress.
What is the Rules Committee?
This requires a majority of members' signatures and can force a bill out of committee and onto the floor.
What is a Discharge Petition?
This step follows committee approval of a bill in the Senate.
What is Full Senate or Senate Floor?
The Senate Watergate Committee investigated a scandal surrounding President Nixon in 1973 and is an example of this type of committee.
What is a Select Committee?