- The leader who presides over the U.S. House of Representatives
Your answer:
Speaker
Vice President
president
Majority Leader
- A formal schedule of bills or resolutions to be considered by Congress
Your answer:
legislative agenda
congressional agenda
docket
calendar
- A proposed law
Your answer:
proposition
initiative
resolution
bill
- The floor leader of the House or Senate who represents the political power of the majority party
Your answer:
Speaker
Majority Leader
Legislative Liaison
President Pro Tempore
- To take a temporary break in a legislative session
Your answer:
adjourn
resolve
recess
filibuster
- A formal statement by Congress expressing a legislative decision or opinion
Your answer:
bill
treaty
majority opinion
resolution
- Length of service, whether in Congress or on a committee
Your answer:
seniority
whip
Rules
session
- To make a parliamentary motion to kill a bill, especially during meetings of the whole House or Senate
Your answer:
legislative veto
pocket veto
special session
table
- This congressional committee is the "traffic cop" of the House of Representatives, because its consent is necessary for a bill to be taken from the House calendar, it can take bills out of order, schedule bills for debate, and set a time limit for debate and adding amendments
Your answer:
Ways and Means Committee
Sanctions Committee
Rules Committee
Enabling Legislation
- The member of Congress who introduces a bill
Your answer:
member
sponsor
senator
representative
- An incumbent in public office who has been defeated in his or her re-election race (usually in November elections), but has not yet left office (called this because he/she has little real political power by this time)
Your answer:
weakened weasel
gone goat
hastalavista horse
lame duck
- A temporary committee made up of members of both houses of Congress whose job is to reconcile Senate and House versions of the same bill
Your answer:
standing committee
ad hoc committee
conference committee
rules committee
- A tactic used in the Senate to monopolize debate in an effort to delay or block passage of a bill
Your answer:
hold hostage
appropriate
log-rolling
filibuster
- An emergency congressional meeting called by the President when Congress is adjourned or in recess
Your answer:
filibuster
special session
session
regular session
- The assistant floor leader for both major political parties in Congress
Your answer:
party pooper
majority leader
party whip
speaker
- A temporary congressional committee created for a specific purpose that will not be handled by a standing committee
Your answer:
standing committee
representative committee
subcommittee
select committee
- The policy of the all-white government of South Africa by which racial groups were separated
Your answer:
segregation
Afrikans
appropriation
apartheid
- Discussing and voting on legislation (that usually takes place between Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon)
Your answer:
special session
regular session
floor action
legislative business
- The floor leader of the House or Senate who represents the political power of the minority party
Your answer:
Minority Leader
Majority Leader
President Pro Tempore
Speaker
- A request by a majority of the members of the House that a bill be released by a committee to the floor, so that it might be voted on
Your answer:
cloture
initiative petition
petition
discharge petition
- A congressional session in which both houses meet together
Your answer:
special session
joint session
legislative session
standard session
- To kill a bill by refusing to take action on it or pass it out of a committee in Congress
Your answer:
buttonhole
pigeonhole
resolution
rider
- A smaller division of a large standing congressional committee
Your answer:
special committee
enabling committee
microcommittee
subcommittee
- One of the major traditions in Congress, a type of reciprocity, this is the mutual exchange of political favors -- "you support my bill, I'll support yours"
Your answer:
cloture
filibuster
log-rolling
floor action
- A way for the government to punish or show disapproval of another nation’s actions or policies, often in the form of economic and trade restrictions
Your answer:
discharge petition
resolutions
log-rolling
sanctions
- Congressional grants of money set aside for a specific purpose
Your answer:
filibuster
cloture
resolutions
appropriations
- A political party spokesperson who leads the action of his or her party on the floor (general term or title)
Your answer:
floor leader
majority leader
Speaker
minority leader
- A large, permanent congressional committee that deals with bills about particular subjects (such as agriculture)
Your answer:
joint committee
select committee
conference committee
standing committee
- An amendment added to a bill that has nothing to do with the subject of a bill
Your answer:
rider
floater
joint resolution
sponsor
- A vote of three-fifths of the Senate to end debate and call for a vote on a bill (and kill off a "filibuster")
Your answer:
lame duck
appropriations
cloture
resolution