Terms from the chapter on Congress:
Cloture Vote
- Wikipedia: a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end.
- Wikipedia. History in the United States:
On 8 March 1917, during World War I, a rule allowing cloture of debate was adopted by the Senate by a vote of 76–3 at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, after a group of 12 anti-war senators managed to kill a bill that would have allowed Wilson to arm merchant vessels in the face of unrestricted German submarine warfare. This was successfully invoked for the first time on 15 November 1919, during the 66th Congress, to end a filibuster on the Treaty of Versailles.
Invoking Cloture in the Senate.
From Senate.Gov: About Filibusters and Cloture.
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Legislative Committees
- Wikipedia: United States congressional committee.
A congressional committee is a legislative sub-organization in the United States Congress that handles a specific duty (rather than the general duties of Congress). Committee membership enables members to develop specialized knowledge of the matters under their jurisdiction. As "little legislatures", the committees monitor ongoing governmental operations, identify issues suitable for legislative review, gather and evaluate information, and recommend courses of action to their parent body.
- Congress.Gov: Committees of the U.S. Congress.
- U.S. Senate: Frequently Asked Questions about Committees.
- U.S. House: In Committee.
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Committee Hearings
- U.S. Senate: Hearings & Meetings.
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Committee Markup Session
- Congressional Caucus
- Earmark
- Filibuster
- Floor
- Legislative Hold
- President pro tempore
- Reapportionment
- roll call vote
- Speaker of the House
- Unanimous consent
- veto
- voice votes
The Presidency:
- central clearance
- chief of staff
- civil servants
- delegated powers
- executive agreements
- Executive Office of the Presidency
- Executive order
- executive privilege
- expressed power
- going public
- imperial presidency
- inherent powers
- override
- political appointees
- political order
- signing statements
- unitary executive theory
- veto power
The Bureaucracy
- bureaucratic pathologies
- civil servants
- final rule
- FOIA
- overhead democracy
- Pendleton Civil Service Act
- Principal - Agent theory
- private contractors
- proposed rule
- regulatory capture
- spoils system
- street level bureaucrat
- universalistic policies
- whistleblower
The Judicial Branch
- amicus curiae
- circuit courts
- civil law
- clear and present danger
- common law
- concurrent opinion
- criminal law
- defendant
- dissent
- district courts
- judicial activism
- judicial restraint
- judicial review
- litigation
- Lochner Era
- majority opinion
- mediation
- plaintiff
- precedence
- rule of four
- stare decisis
- strict scrutiny
