Concept information
Preferred term
congressional leadership
Definition(s)
- Congressional leadership takes place within an institution that serves two primary functions: making laws and representing citizens. Leaders play essential roles organizing the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate—they set the schedule for debating bills and resolutions; formulate proposals to address public problems; represent their party's priorities through the media and in relations with leaders of the opposing party; support or oppose the president's initiatives in the legislative process; and build coalitions to pass legislation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Congressional Leadership]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- Abscam
- ad-hoc committees
- African Americans in Congress
- Army-McCarthy hearings
- Asian Americans in Congress
- caucuses
- classes of senators
- committees
- conference committees
- Congressional Black Caucus
- congressional ethics
- Congressional Hispanic Caucus
- foreign policy powers
- gavel
- Hispanic Americans in Congress
- Date: 1767-1848 John Quincy Adams
- joint committees
- mace
- majority leader
- minority leader
- party whip
- President and Congress
- president pro tempore
- Speaker of the House of Representatives
- The Federalist Papers
- vice president
- women in Congress
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JLV88FQV-D
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