| A | B |
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| a was for citizens to propose potential laws | Proposition |
| a proposed law | Bill |
| Committee with a continued existence, formed to do its assigned work on an ongoing basis | Standing Committee |
| a system in which the longest serving members of Congress are assigned to committees | Seniority System |
| a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration. | House Rules Committee |
| a committee with members from both houses of a bicameral legislature | Joint Committee |
| is made of members of both houses whose job it is to work out the differences between the same bill passed in the House and Senate | Conference Committee |
| a gathering of citizens to discuss potential actions of government that may affect a community | Public Hearing |
| formal decision, law, or the like, by a legislature | Act |
| the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom | Law |
| refusing to sign a bill | Veto |
| Authority, as of a government executive, to reject provisions of a bill individually | line item veto |
| The indirect veto of a bill received by the President within ten days of the adjournment of Congress, effected by retaining the bill | pocket veto |
| to block a vote on a bill by holding the Senate floor by talking, until the sponsors have recend | Filibuster |
| a vote that occurs to limit the amount of time a bill can be discussed, ends/blocks a filibuster | Cloture |
| an attached amendment to a bill during the committee process inorder to get the bill passed | Rider |
