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Vocabulary for Congress Summary
A primer defining common Congress terms such as on the floor, has the floor, the chair recognizes, lobby, majority leader, whip, filibuster, cloture, quorum, and hearings. It explains House and Senate roles, bills, mark-up, override, and the committee system with brief context from The Mint Page by Betty Debnam in 1984.
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