Category:United States Senate Terms

"

• "Christmas tree" bill
• "Lame duck" Session

A

• 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
• Authorization

B

• Balanced budget
• Baseline
• Bill
• Budget resolution

C

• Calendar of Business
• Caucus
• Chairman
• Chaplain
• Class (Senate term)
• Clean bill
• Cloak room
• Cloture
• Committee
• Committee amendment
• Committee calendar
• Committee jurisdiction
• Committee membership
• Committee on committees
• Committee print
• Committee substitute
• Companion bill or measure
• Concurrent resolution
• Conditional adjournment
• Conferees
• Conference committee
• Conference report
• Conference, party
• Confirmation
• Congressional record

C cont.

• Consideration
• Continuing resolution/continuing appropriations
• Controlled time

D

• Deficit (surplus)
• Discretionary spending

E

• Enacted
• Engrossed bill
• Enrolled bill
• Entitlement
• Ex officio
• Executive business
• Executive calendar
• Executive communication
• Executive session

F

• Filibuster
• Floor
• Floor amendment
• Floor leaders
• Floor manager

G

• Germane

H

• Hearing
• Hold

J

• Joint committee
• Joint resolution
• Joint session
• Journal

L

• Lame duck session
• Layover
• Leave to sit
• Legislative day
• Legislative Day
• Legislative session

M

• Majority Leader
• Majority Whip
• Mandatory spending
• Markup session
• Measure
• Morning business
• Motion to proceed to consider

N

• Nomination
• Nongermane amendment
• Nuclear option

O

• Obligation
• Off-budget entities
• Original bill
• Outlays
• Oversight

P

• Parliamentarian
• Parliamentary inquiry
• Permanent appropriation
• Point of order
• Policy committees
• President of the Senate
• President pro tempore
• Presidential signature
• Presiding officer
• Private law
• Pro forma session
• Proxy voting
• Public law

Q

• Question
• Quorum
• Quorum call
• Quorum Call

R

• Ranking minority member
• Receipts
• Recess
• Reconciliation bill
• Reconciliation instruction
• Reconciliation process
• Reconsider
• Referral
• Regular meeting day
• Roll call vote

S

• Scheduling
• Secretaries, party
• Secretary of the Senate
• Select or Special Committee
• Senate Manual
• Senate Minority Leader
• Senatorial courtesy
• Subcommittee

V

• Veto override

Y

• Yield the floor