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| A lawmaking body made up of two chamber or parts. |
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| An attempt to defeat a bill in the senate by talking indefinitely, which prevents the senate from taking actions on the bill |
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| Political districts in which candidates elected to the House of Representatives win in close elections. |
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| Districts in which incumbents win by margins of 55 percent or more. |
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| An alliance between Republicans and Conservative Democrats |
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| the Legislative leader elected by party members holding the majority of seats in the House of Representatives or the Senate. |
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| the Legislative leader elected by party members holding the Minority of seats in the House of Representatives or the Senate. |
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| A senator or representative who helps the party stay informed about what party members are thinking, round up members when important votes are taken, and attempts to keep a nose count on how the voting on controversial issues is likely to go. |
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| a vote in which a majority of Democratic legislators oppose a majority of Republican legistators. |
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| An association of members of congress created to advocate a political ideology or a regional, ethnic, or economic interest. |
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| Permanently established legislative committe that consider and are responsible for legislation within a certain subject area. |
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| Congressional committees appointed for a limited time and purpose. |
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| Committee on which both representatives and senators serve, an especially important kind of joint committe is the conference committe. |
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| Made up of representatives and senators appointed to resolve the differences between the Senate house versions of the same piece of legislation before final passage . |
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| A legislative bill thatv deals with matters of general concern. |
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| A legislative bill that deals only with specific, priviate, personal, or local matter rather than with general legislative affairs. |
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| an expression of opinion wither in the house of representatives or the senate to settle hosekeeping procedural matters in either body. |
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| An expression of congressional opinion without the force of law that requires the approval of both the house and Senate but not the president |
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| A formal expression of congressional opinion that must be approved by both houses of congress and by the president. |
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| a congressional process whereby a bill may b refferred to several committe that consider it stimultaneously in whole or in part. |
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| A congressional process by which a speaker may send a bill to a second committe after the first is finished acting, or may refer part of a bill to seperate committe. |
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| a device by which any member of the house, after a committe has had a bill for thirty days, many petitons to have it brought to the floor. |
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| An order from the house rules committe that sets a time limit on debates and forbids a particular bill from being attended on the legislative floor. |
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| an oder of the hose rules committe that permits a bill to b attended on the legislative floor. |
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| An order of the house rule committe that permits certain kinds admendments but not other to be made into a bill on a legislative floor. |
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| An admendment on a matter unrelated to a bill that is added to the bill so the will "ride"to passage through |
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| When a bill has lots of riders |
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| The minimum number of members who must b present for business to be conducted in congress. |
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| A calling of the role in either House of Congress to see whether the number of representatives in attendance meets the minimum number required to conduct official business. |
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| A rule used by the Senate to end or limit debates. |
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| A procedure to keep the Senate going during a Filibuster in which the disputed bill is shelved temporarily so that the Senate can get on with other business. |
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| A congressional voting procedure in which members shout "yea"in approval or "nay"in disapproval. |
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| A congressional voting procedure in which members stand and are counted. |
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| A congressional voting procedure in which members pass between two tellers, the "yeas"first and then the "nays". |
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| A congressional voting procedure that consists of members answering "yea" or "nay" to their names. |
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| Legislation that gives tangible benefits to consistuents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return. |
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| The ability of members of congress to mail letters to their constituents free of charge by substituting their facsimile signature. |
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