chapter 13 part II
Terms
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- Double-tracking
- a procedure to keep the Senate going during filibuster in which the disputed bill is shelved temporarily so that the Senate can get on with other business.
- Select committees
- Congressional committees appointed for a limited time and purpose.
- Teller vote
- a congressional votinf procedure in which members pass between two tellers, the yeas first and the nays second.
- Private bill
- a legislative bill that deals only with specific, private, personal, or local matters.
- Pork-barrel legislation
- legislation that gives tangible benefits to contituents in several districts or states in hope of winning their votes in return.
- Congressional Research Service
- staff agency that employs many people with advance academic training to respond to more than a quarter of a million questions a year.
- Calendar Wednesday procedure
- a procedure used by the House to bypass the Rules Committee.
- Discharge petition
- a device by which any member of the House after a committee has had the bill for thirty days may petition to have it brought to the floor.
- Simple resolution
- an expression of opinion either in the House or Senate to settle procedural matters in either body.
- Christmas Tree Bill
- a bil with many riders.
- Proxy votes
- written authorization to cast another person's vote.
- Multiple referral
- a congressional process whereby a bill may be referred to several committees.
- Division vote
- a congressional voting procedure in which members stand and are counted
- Public bill
- a legislative bill that deals with matters of general concern.
- Franking privilege
- the ability of members to mail letters to their constituents free of charge by substituting their facsimile signature for postage.
- Quorum
- the minimum number of members who must be present for business to be conducted in Congress.
- Rider
- a provision added to a piece of legislation that is not germane to the bill's purpose.
- Joint committees
- Committees on which both senators and reps serve.
- Joint resolution
- a formal expression of congressional opinion that must be approved by both houses of Congress and by the president; constitutional amendments need not be signed by the president.
- Sequential referral
- a congressional process by which a Speaker may send a bill to a second committee after the first is finished acting.
- Voice vote
- a congressional voting procedure iin which members shout yea or nay permitting members to vote quickly or anonymously on a bills.
- Closed rule
- an order from the House Rules Committee that sets a time limit on floor debate, forbids a bill from being emended on the floor.
- Cloture rule
- a rule used by the Senate to end or limit a debate.
- Standing committees
- permanently established legislative committees that consider and are responsible for legislation within a certain subject area.
- Roll-call vote
- a congressional voting procedure that consists of members answering yea or nay to their names.
- General Accounting Office
- staff agency that investigates agencies and policies and makes reccomendations on almost every aspect of government
- Open rule
- an order from the House Rules Committee that permits the bil to be amended on the floor.
- Concurrent resolution
- an expression of opinion without the force of law that requires the approval of both the House and the Senate but not the president.
- Conference committee
- a joint committee appointed to resolve differences in the Senate and House versions of the same bill.
- Quorum call
- a roll call in either house of Congress to see whether the minimum number of reps required to conduct business is present.
- Restrictive rule
- an order from the House Rules Committee that permits certain kinds of amendments but not others to be made to the bill on the floor.
- Congressional Budget Office
- staff agency that advises Congress on the likely economic effects of different spending programs and provides information on the costs of the proposed policies.