House
The abbreviation for a House Resolution.
What is H.R.?
The person in charge of a given committee.
What is a chairman?
When the President objects to a bill and tells Congress NO!!!
What is a Veto?
What I am.
What is just a bill?
The person who assigns members to committees in the House.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
What is a vote of cloture?
The committee that gives out the money.
When a President doesn't act on a bill sent to them.
What is a Pocket Veto?
The term for a bill that both parties agree on
What is bipartisan
The number of representatives required to pass a bill.
What is 218?
The unique power the Senate has over the executive.
What is oversight?
The smaller division of a committee.
What is a subcommittee?
The number of days until a President has to sign or veto a bill before it is killed or passed automatically.
What is 10 days?
The people that a representative represents.
What is a constituency?
What is the Rules Committee?
The amount of time a senator must be a US citizen.
What is 9 years?
When a committee kills a bill by refusing to take action?
What is Pigeonholing?
Directives from the President to executive agencies.
What are Executive Orders?
Nobody knows. the leaders hire the parliamentarian, and they are not going to tell their bosses no.
What is a germane ammendment?
The committee that deals with taxes.
What is the Ways and Means Committee?
The time of the longest recorded speech in minutes.
What is 1504?
The name of the individual in charge of the minority party in a committee.
Ranking Member
The number of bills a president can sponsor in a session.
What is 0
The person that rules if an amendment is germane.
What is a parlimentarian?