Part 1411 Availability of Official Information
Part 1413 Open Meetings
Part 1414 Ex Parte Communications

Terms Used In CFR > Title 22 > Chapter XIV > Subchapter B - General Provisions

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • you: as used in this part 4290 means a RBIC unless otherwise noted. See 7 CFR 4290.40