Senate

Under U.S. federal law and practice, the President can sign a bill into law, veto a bill, or allow a bill to become law without a signature if the President does not sign or veto it within 10 days (excluding Sundays); Congress can override a presidential veto by a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, an acting official may generally serve in an acting capacity for 210 days, and that 210-day limit is suspended when the President nominates someone to the position until the Senate approves or denies the nominee.

Proposed legislation can impose lifetime bans on Senate-confirmed federal officials from lobbying on behalf of designated adversary governments such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

U.S. senators can oppose a presidential nomination for U.S. attorney, which can stall the Senate confirmation process for that nominee.

A legislative provision can grant any U.S. Senator whose Senate data or the Senate data of their Senate office was acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed in violation of the provision the right to bring a civil action against the United States and, for each violation, recover at least $500,000 plus attorney fees, litigation costs, and any additional relief the court grants.

For a bill to become law in the United States, both the House of Representatives and the Senate must pass the same legislation and the president must sign it (or a presidential veto must be overridden).

Members of one chamber of a bicameral legislature can exert political pressure on members of the other chamber to influence the timing and terms of budget or government funding negotiations.

Bipartisan congressional negotiations sometimes produce agreements that include only a promise to hold a vote on extending policy provisions such as ACA subsidies, rather than embedding written extensions in enacted legislation.

A bipartisan deal passed by the Senate may still require support from House Democrats to pass the House if a significant faction of House Republicans opposes the deal.

The 'Gang of Eight' in the U.S. Congress consists of the majority and minority leaders of both the House and the Senate and the chairs and vice-chairs of the congressional intelligence committees.

Argentina's national legislature is bicameral, consisting of an upper chamber called the Senate and a lower chamber called the Chamber of Deputies.

Argentina's midterm legislative elections renew half of the seats in the lower house (Chamber of Deputies) and one-third of the seats in the Senate.

A common legislative tactic in the U.S. Congress is for the House of Representatives to pass a funding bill and adjourn to put pressure on the Senate to accept the bill, a practice sometimes described as 'jamming the other chamber'.

A full federal government shutdown occurs when the federal fiscal year ends on September 30 and none of Congress's 12 single-subject appropriations bills have been enacted by both the House and Senate.

A Supreme Court decision from around 1935 established that presidents generally needed a cause (such as neglect of duty) before removing certain Senate-confirmed independent agency officials.

Security guarantees issued by a U.S. president through executive orders are unilateral executive-branch actions that can be changed or reversed by subsequent presidents and do not have the same permanence as treaties that require Senate ratification.

A conference committee is a formal joint committee of members from the House and the Senate established to reconcile differences between the two chambers' versions of a bill and produce a compromise measure.

A funding measure must be passed in identical form by both the House of Representatives and the Senate before it can become law and fund federal government operations.