FactCheckED : Glossary of Terms

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A ( go back to the top )

Alternative Minimum Tax

Amicus Curiae Brief

Attorney General

Average Tax Rate

B ( go back to the top )

Ballot Initiative

Blue Dog Democrats

British Thermal Unit (Btu)

Buckley v. Valeo

C ( go back to the top )

Capital Gains Tax

Carbon Sequestration

Classical Economics

Coattail Effect

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

Conference Committee

Confirmation Hearing

Congressional Black Caucus

Congressional Budget Office

Congressional District

Congressional Record

Continuing Resolution

Coordinated Expenditure

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Debt Retirement

Deficit Spending

Democratic Party

Discretionary Spending

Divided Government

E ( go back to the top )

Electoral College

Electronic Voting

Emergency Spending

Executive Branch

Executive Order

Executive Privilege

Exploratory Committee

F ( go back to the top )

Federal Election Campaign Act

Federal Election Commision

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Federal Reserve

Federal Reserve Chairman

Flexible Fuel Vehicle

Food and Drug Administration

G ( go back to the top )

Geothermal Energy

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Greenhouse Effect

Greenhouse Gases

Gross Domestic Product

Gross National Product

H ( go back to the top )

I ( go back to the top )

Independent Expenditure

Indictment/Conviction

Insurgent or Terrorist

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Internal Revenue Service

Iraq Study Group

J ( go back to the top )

Justice Department

K ( go back to the top )

Keynesian Economics

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Laissez-faire Economics

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

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Majority Leader

Manhattan Project

Marginal Tax Rate

Marginal Utility

Minority Leader

Monetary Policy

N ( go back to the top )

National Security Advisor

National Security Agency

Neoclassical Economics

Neoconservative

O ( go back to the top )

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

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Parliamentary procedure

Permanent Resident

Pork-Barrel Spending

Public Financing

Q ( go back to the top )

R ( go back to the top )

Reapportionment

Renewable Energy

S ( go back to the top )

Securities and Exchange Commission

Single-Member District

Speaker of the House

Special Interest

Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)

Straw Poll or Straw Vote

Supply-side Economics

T ( go back to the top )

Ticket-Splitting

U ( go back to the top )

Unemployment Rate

V ( go back to the top )

W ( go back to the top )

White House Press Secretary

Writ of Certiorari

X ( go back to the top )

Y ( go back to the top )

Yellow Dog Democrat

Yellow Journalism

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