A limit on the number of years a state legislature and members of Congress can serve.
What are term limits?
Members from differing parties unite to support or oppose a bill for various reasons.
What is a coalition?
A proposed law that is submitted to Congress.
What is a bill?
A two house congress.
What is bi-cameral.
Head of a Congressional committee.
The leader of the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Delays or prevents a measure through long speeches.
What is a filibuster?
Noted in the Federalist number 5, 62 and 63, that the person in Senate served as a check on the house, which is the more populous branch.
Who is James Madison?
The rights of members in Congress to have free postal services.
A largely honorary position taken by the most senior member of the Senate majority party.
Who is the President Pro Tempore?
A limiting debate motion that stops a debate.
What is a cloture?
The more democratic of the two houses.
What is the House of Representatives.
Committees drawn from both chambers that meet to devise versions of bills or laws.
What is a conference committee?
A political group consisting of all the members of a party within a House of Congress.
What is a caucus?
The president can do this to stop a bill from becoming a law.
What is a veto?
Redraws district boundaries to favor the political party that controls a state legislature.
What is gerrymandering?
A committee created to investigate a particular problem.
What is a select committee?
He is considered to be the most powerful Speaker of the House in history.
Who is Joseph Cannon?
This is when the president leaves a bill unsigned for over ten days, and it automatically vetoes the bill.
What is a pocket veto?
A geographic area represented by a House member.
What is a Congressional district?