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08163273-n:
persons who make or amend or repeal laws
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08356375-n:
the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating
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08161591-n:
the upper house of the United States Congress
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08161971-n:
the lower legislative house of the United States Congress
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08163273-n:
persons who make or amend or repeal laws
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08355791-n:
the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States
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right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality
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the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
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a published written account of the speeches and debates and votes of the United States Congress
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a resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the Chief Executive (or passed over the Chief Executive's veto)
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a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment
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formerly a state law that protected manufacturers from price-cutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise; eliminated by the United States Congress in 1975
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an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance
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a poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 was set to music and adopted by Congress in 1931 as the national anthem of the United States
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08161591-n:
the upper house of the United States Congress
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08161971-n:
the lower legislative house of the United States Congress
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an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States
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an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments
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08356573-n:
an agency of the legislative branch that provides printing and binding services for Congress and the departments and establishments of the federal government
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a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages
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a hill in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Building sits and Congress meets
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11118602-n:
United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court; considered the first professional architect in the United States (1764-1820)
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a limit set by Congress beyond which the national debt cannot rise; periodically raised by Congress
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