The Bill in The House
A key difference between how bills move through the House and Senate is the length of __________ allowed on the floor.
What is debate?
Who can introduce a bill in the Senate?
Only senators who have been formally recognized for the purpose.
This committee is set up for a specific purpose and for a limited time.
What is a select committee?
As a bill, I can be filibusted in which chamber of congress?
What is the Senate?
In the House, it is limited, but in the Senate it is virtually unlimited.
What is debate?
A majority of the full membership of the House.
What is quorum?
This procedural tactic allows a Senator to delay or prevent a vote on a bill by speaking for an extended period.
What is the filibuster?
This committee decides whether or not a bill will get a vote by the full House.
What is the House Rules Committee?
To allow a bill to die in committee
What is pigeonhole?
A closed meeting that deals with party organization
What is party caucus
This committee is nicknamed the "Speaker's Right Arm"
Rules Committee
The Senate's check on the filibuster
What is cloture?
The committee whose primary purpose is to come up with a compromise version of a bill.
What is a conference committee
The President's rejection of a bill.
What is veto?
An assistant floor leader in both the House and Senate.
What is the whip?
The House uses five of these, while the senate uses only one.
What is calendar?
Party officer who serves as the Senate's presiding officer in the Vice President's absence
Who is the President Pro Tempore?
This is a joint committee that irons out differences in a bill.
What is conference committee?
A proposed law.
What is a bill?
Custom of granting top posts to members with the longest records of service
What is seniority rule?
When a House standing committee reports a bill, this is the next step in getting the bill to the floor of the House for consideration.
What is placing the bill on a calendar?
One downside to the filibuster is that it can lead to political ________
What is gridlock?
This type of committee is permanent.
What is standing committee?
Bills raising revenue must originate where?
The House
Congress begins a new term in January of every ___________.
What is odd numbered year?