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| Congressional Budget Office |
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| Nonpartisan agency created by Congress to assist in the budget process. |
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| Electoral district in which the candidate from the dominant party usually wins more that 55% of votes |
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| free postage for Congress to communicate |
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| practice of finding solutions to constituent problems, usually involving gov. agencies. |
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| majority-minority district |
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| district in which minority members are clustered together, producing a majority of minority voters in the district |
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| law maker tries to balance the views of constituents, interest groups, and party leaders with his or her own idealogical learnings |
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| term applied to spending for pet projects of individual members of congress |
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| funding for specific projects that are added by members of congress to appropriations bills, usually without oversight or public debate |
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| In the House, the committee charged with determining rules for debate, amendment, and bills brought to the floor |
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| committee sessions in which members review contents of line by line |
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| override, oversight, legislative veto, congressional review |
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| early step in the budgeting process, in which both houses of Congress set spending goals |
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| process of amending spending bills to meet budget targets |
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| vehicle for funding gov operations at the previous year's levels of support when a new budget is delayed |
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