A | B |
private bill | a bill dealing with individual people or places |
public bill | a bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation |
simple resolution | a statement adopted to cover matters affecting only one house of Congress |
rider | a provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered in the bill |
hearing | a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill |
veto | a rejection of a bill |
pocket veto | when a president kills a bill passed during the last 10 days Congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it |
dd | gg |