Where everything is bipartisan until it is not.
Money allocated for unexpected expenses, typically requested by agencies and used for whatever they want anyway.
The process where a legislative committee edits, amends, and debates a bill before sending it to a full floor vote. Where sausage-making reaches peak visibility.
The exclusive space where legislative power actually gets distributed, far from public view and constituent input.
A subdivision or distinct section of a larger administrative unit—used in vexillology to describe the corner section of a flag, or in government to denote regional divisions.