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Glossary of Congressional and Legislative Terms

Incorporating the glossary from the Congressional Deskbook

This Glossary will remain as is and is no longer updated - please use the version on Hobnob Blog, located at CongressionalGlossary.com.

Also see A Glossary of Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process from GAO

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(links to glossary pages above - links to specific words below)

 
  • Act
  • Adjourn
  • Adjourn for More than Three Days
  • Adjournment Sine Die
  • Adjournment to a Day and Time Certain
  • Advice and Consent
  • Amendment
  • Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute
  • Appeal
  • Appropriation
  • Appropriations Bill
  • Authorization
  • Authorizations Act
  • Backdoor Spending Authority
  • Balanced Budget
  • Baseline
  • Bills
  • Bills Introduced
  • Bills Referred
  • Block Grants
  • Borrowing Authority
  • Budget
  • Budget Act
  • Budget Authority
  • Budget Enforcement Act of 1990
  • Budget Process
  • Budget Resolution
  • Byrd Rule
  • By Request
  • Calendar of Business
  • Calendar Wednesday
  • Call of the Calendar
  • Caucus
  • Chairman
  • Chamber
  • Chaplain
  • "Christmas Tree" Bill
  • Classes of Senators
  • Clean Bill
  • Clerk of the House
  • Cloakroom
  • Cloture
  • Committee Amendment
  • Committee Calendar
  • Committee Jurisdiction
  • Committee Membership
  • Committee of the Whole
  • Committee on Committees
  • Committee Print
  • Committee Substitute
  • Committee Veto
  • Companion Bill or Measure
  • Concurrent Resolution
  • Conditional Adjournment
  • Conferees
  • Conference
  • Conference, Party
  • Conference Committee
  • Conference Report
  • Confirmation
  • Congressional Record
  • Congressional Terms of Office
  • Consideration
  • Continuing Appropriations Act
  • Continuing Resolution/Continuing Appropriations
  • Contract Authority
  • Controllable Budget Items
  • Controlled Time
  • Correcting Recorded Votes
  • Corrections Day Calendar
  • Current Services Estimates
  • Custody of the Papers
  • Date Shifting
  • Deferral
  • Deficit (Surplus)
  • Dilatory Motion or Tactic
  • Direct Spending
  • Directed Scoring
  • Discharge a Committee
  • Discharge Calendar
  • Discharge Petition
  • Discharge Resolution
  • Discretionary Appropriations
  • Discretionary Spending
  • Division of  a Question for Voting
  • Division Vote

 

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  • "Emergency" Spending
  • En Bloc Amendment
  • Enacted
  • Enacting Clause
  • Engrossed Bill
  • Enrolled Bill
  • Entitlement
  • Entitlement Authority
  • Entitlement Program
  • Ex Officio
  • Executive Business
  • Executive Calendar
  • Executive Communication
  • Executive Document
  • Executive Session
  • Expenditures

 

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  • Filibuster
  • Fiscal Year
  • Five Minute Rule
  • Floor
  • Floor Amendment
  • Floor Leaders
  • Floor Manager
  • Frank
  • Function (Functional Classification)
  • Germane
  • Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Process
  • Grandfather Clause
  • Grants In-Aid
  • Hearing
  • Hold
  • Hold-Harmless Clause
  • Hopper
  • Hour Rule
  • House
  • House as in Committee of the Whole
  • House Calendar
  • Immunity
  • Impoundments
  • Item Veto
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  • Joint Meeting
  • Joint Resolution
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  • Lame Duck
  • Law
  • Layover
  • Leave to Sit
  • Legislative Day
  • Legislative Session
  • Legislative Veto
  • Line Item Veto
  • Loan Guarantees
  • Lobby
  • Majority Leader
  • Majority Whip
  • Mandatory Spending
  • Manual
  • Marking Up A Bill
  • Markup
  • Measure
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  • Minority Whip
  • Morning Business
  • Morning Hour
  • Motion
  • Motion to Proceed to Consider
  • "Must Pass" Bill
  • Nomination
  • Nongermane Amendment
  • Obligation
  • Off-Budget Entities
  • One-Minute Speeches
  • Original Bill
  • Outlays
  • Override of a Veto
  • Oversight
  • Oversight Committee

     

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  • Parliamentarian
  • Parliamentary enquiry
  • Pay As You Go (Pay Go) Process
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  • Public Debt
  • Public Law
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  • Ranking Minority Member
  • Reading of Bills
  • Receipts
  • Recess
  • Recognize/Recognition
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  • Reconciliation
  • Reconciliation Bill
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  • Referral
  • Regular Meeting Day
  • Relevant
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  • Riddick's Senate Procedure
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  • Rules
  • Scheduling
  • Scorekeeping
  • Secretaries, Party
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  • Select or Special Committee
  • Senate Manual
  • Senator
  • Senatorial Courtesy
  • Seniority
  • Sequestration
  • Sergeant at Arms
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  • Simple Resolution
  • Sine Die
  • Slip Law
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  • Spending Authority
  • Sponsor
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  • Statutory Limit on the Public Debt
  • Strike from the Record
  • Subcommittee
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  • Table a Bill
  • Table, Motion to
  • Teller Vote
  • Treaties
  • Trust Funds
  • Unanimous Consent
  • Unanimous Consent Agreement
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  • U.S. Code
  • User Fees
  • Veto
  • Vice President
  • Voice Vote
  • Vote
  • Whips
  • Without Objection
  • Yeas and Nays
  • Yield/Yielding
  • Yield the Floor
  • Yield Time

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