The House can protect its prerogatives by "blue slipping" measures the leadership does not approve of. (It's called "blue slipping" because the resolution returning the offending bill to the Senate is printed on blue paper. And, we like to think, because their Senate colleagues become sad when this is done to them.
The Invastion of the Bill Snatchers
by John Dickerson
http://www.slate.com/id/2231640/
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