The Starting of the Bill
The Voting of the Bill
The Reconciliation and the Revote
Methods of Discontinuation and Continuance
The Beginning of the Law
100
The form in which a bill manifests
What is an idea?
100
The amount of 51% needed to pass the bill.
What is Simple Majority?
100
The person who determines which bills are scheduled, when, and for how long.
What is the Majority Leader?
100
The act of killing the bill in committee
What is a "pigeonhole?"
100
The bill after the president signed it.
What is a Law?
200
The only person who can introduce a bill.
What is a member of Congress?
200
An electronic voting system that counts the votes in the House buy colors.
What is a Role call.
200
When 60% of the Senate agrees to end the debate.
What is Cloture?
200
The man with the veto.
What is the president.
200
An action of rejecting the bill that requires reasons and recommendations for correction.
What is the Veto?
300
The committee that considers the bills.
What is the Standing Committee?
300
Vote taken when members file past the sergeant of arms.
What is a Teller Vote?
300
Used by the minority to block bills
What are Filibusters?
300
The 2 ways in which the president can act on a bill
What is a veto or a signage?
300
The president not acting on a bill for 10 days while Congress is in session.
What is a new law?
400
The person who determines which bills are discussed and for how long.
What is the Speaker?
400
The number of votes needed pass the bill and to control the Senate.
What is 51?
400
The committee, made up of both the House and Senate members, that consideres the differences in the bill.
What is the Conference Committee?
400
The number of people needed in the Senate for an override of the president's veto.
What is 67
400
The bill dieing due to the 10 days of the president not acting with an inactive Congress.
What is a Pocket Veto?
500
Individual citizens, special interest groups, corperations, non-governmental organizations.
Who are the variety of sources in which a bill can originate?
500
The number of votes needed to control the House.
What is 218?
500
The combined bill created for a revote in both the House and the Senate.
What is Conference Report?
500
The number of people needed in the House for an override of the president's veto.
What is 369
500
Notes added by the president that tell how the law should be enforced and if parts will not be.
What is a Signing Statement?
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