Social Studies CHAPTER 8
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- Speaker of the house
- presiding officer in House of Representatives
- Lobbyists
- people who represent interest groups
- filibuster
- use of long speechees to prevent a vote on a bill
- Pocket veto
- president stops a bill from becoming law by keeping it for ten days while Congress is in session
- Bill
- a proposed law
- Cloture
- agreement to end debate on a bill
- bill of attainder
- law that convicts a person of a crime with no trial
- Budget
- plan for raising and spending money
- President pro tempore
- person who presides over the Senate in VIce President's place
- Census
- population count taken every ten years
- Floor Leaders
- chief officers of each party in Congress
- Impeach
- to accuse an official of serious wrongdoing
- Congressional district
- area that a House member represents
- Interest groups
- people with similar goals
- Consituents
- People whom a member of Congress represents