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"Lame Duck" Session
Law/Public Law/Private Law back to top of L, M, N glossary
Layover Leave to Sit back to top of L, M, N glossary Legislative Day
Legislative Session back to top of L, M, N glossary Legislative Veto The specifics of the procedure varied, but Congress generally provided for a legislative veto by including in a bill a provision that administrative rules or action taken to implement the law were to go into effect at the end of a designated period of time unless blocked by either or both houses of Congress. Another version of the veto provided for congressional reconsideration and rejection of regulations already in effect. The Supreme Court on June 23, 1983, struck down the legislative veto as an unconstitutional violation of the lawmaking procedure provided in the Constitution.
Line Item Veto back to top of L, M, N glossary
Loan Guarantee
Lobby The definition of a lobby and the activity of lobbying is a matter of differing interpretation. By some definitions, lobbying is limited to direct attempts to influence lawmakers through personal interviews and persuasion. Under other definitions, lobbying attempts at indirect, or "grass-roots", influence, such as persuading members of a group to write or visit their districts' representative and states' senators or attempting to create a climate of opinion favorable to a desired legislative goal. The right to attempt to influence legislation is based on the First Amendment to the Constitution, which says Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to "petition the government for redress of grievances." back to top of L, M, N glossary
Managers
Majority Leader
Majority Whip back to top of L, M, N glossary
Mandatory Spending Manual
Marking Up A Bill back to top of L, M, N glossary
Markup
Measure
Minority Leader back to top of L, M, N glossary
Minority, Supplemental, and Additional Views
Minority Whip
Modified Closed Rule
Modified Open Rule
Morning Hour (Morning Business) In the Senate, it is the first two hours of a session following an adjournment, as distinguished from a recess. The morning hour can be terminated earlier if the morning business has been completed. Business includes such matters as messages from the president, communications from the heads of departments, messages from the House, the presentation of petition, reports of standing and select committees and the introduction of bills and resolutions. During the first hour of the morning hour in the Senate, no motion to proceed to the consideration of any bill on the calendar is in order except by unanimous consent. During the second hour, motions can be made but must be decided without debate. Senate committees may meet while the Senate conducts morning hour. back to top of L, M, N glossary
Motion
Motion to Proceed to Consider back to top of L, M, N glossary "Must Pass" Bill Nominations back to top of L, M, N glossary
Nongermane Amendment
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