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Made up of the House and Senate, known collectively as the Congress. Makes all laws, declares war, regulates interstate and foreign commerce and controls taxing and spending policies.

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a national legislative body, especially that of the US. The US Congress, which meets at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., was established by the Constitution of 1787 and is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

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The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress.

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The Constitution instructs the Senate to choose a President Pro Tempore to preside over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President.

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The speaker presides over the House's debates, determining which members may speak and which amendments are selected for consideration. The speaker is also responsible for maintaining order during debate, and may punish members who break the rules of the House.

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An official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.

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Apportionment is the process by which seats in a legislative body are distributed among administrative divisions, such as states or parties, entitled to representation.

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Redistricting in the United States is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries. For the United States House of Representatives, and state legislatures, redistricting occurs after each ten-year census.

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The political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.

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Laws, considered collectively.

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Those that are not specifically granted to the national government in the Constitution and are therefore reserved to the states.

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The powers granted to the Federal government, and specifically Congress, which are mostly listed in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

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Political powers granted to the United States government that aren't explicitly stated in the Constitution.

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Elastic Clause/Necessary and Proper Clause

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Elastic Clause/Necessary and Proper Clause

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A provision in the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) that allows Congress to pass laws that are "necessary and proper" to carry out its enumerated powers

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A draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion.

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A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.

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If Congress approves a bill and sends it to the President, then adjourns before the ten days elapse, the President cannot return the bill to the originating Chamber after adjournment. In those circumstances, the President can prevent the bill from becoming law simply by declining to sign it, sometimes called a "pocket veto".

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The Senate tradition of unlimited debate has allowed for the use of the filibuster, a loosely defined term for action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill, resolution, amendment, or other debatable question.

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The procedural step of ending debate on a proposal and holding a vote to determine if it will pass.

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Congress can override a veto by passing the act by a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate. (Usually an act is passed with a simple majority.) This check prevents the President from blocking an act when significant support for it exists.

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Standing committees are permanent bodies with specific responsibilities and jurisdictions that are defined in the Senate's rules.

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Select committees are usually created by a resolution to conduct investigations or consider measures, usually on a specific topic, and are not renewed on a permanent basis with the notable exception of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

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A committee made up of members of the two chambers of a bicameral legislature

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For a work item like a bill in Congress, “pigeonhole” means to put it aside, as if it were literally put into such a little box for storage. The intent might be simply to save it for later, but the idiom often means to put it away to be ignored or forgotten.

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The division of government power into separate branches to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful

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Principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power