The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congressional \Con*gres"sion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.
Congressional and official labor.
--E. Everett.
Congressional District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Latin congressionem (from congressus, see congress) + -al (1). Originally sometimes reviled as barbarous, Pickering (1816) quotes an unnamed English correspondent: "The term Congress belonging to America, the Americans may employ its derivatives, without waiting for the assent of the English."
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to Congress or a congress.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to congress; "congressional hearing"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "congressional".
With others of the Massachusetts congressional delegation still at Philadelphia, Adams was the only member of Congress present as Washington made the case for an attack on Boston, by sending his troops across the frozen bay.
As a result, his powerful congressional allies were demanding that President Castilla officially designate the Lazarus Movement as a terrorist organization.
We have built on the work of several previous Commissions, and we thank the Congressional Joint Inquiry, whose fine work helped us get started.
Congressional action, a New York City general sales tax was applicable to sales of coal under contracts entered into within the municipality and calling for delivery therein.
Ruth on TV for answers to rudimentary anatomical questions, it would seem infinitely more responsible for these esteemed wives and mothers to demand a full-scale Congressional demystification of the subject.
Why do dispossessed farmers have no congressional representatives to turn to?
It is the conception which underlies congressional legislation of recent years making certain crimes against the States, like theft, racketeering, kidnapping, crimes also against the National Government whenever the offender extends his activities beyond state boundary lines.
Oliver North stood at attention before the joint congressional investigating committee in his Marine olive uniform, his chest covered with medals, his hand raised to take the oath.
In Watergate and Iran-contra, the congressional investigating committees had granted more limited use immunity to witnesses such as John Dean, the Nixon counsel, and Oliver North, the Reagan National Security Council aide.
Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, 295.
Saturday: Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, 296.
Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, 298.
See Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, 208-211.
Nonetheless, the Court held that a Congressional waiver of immunity in the case of a government corporation did not mean that funds or property of the United States can be levied on to pay a judgment obtained against such a corporation as the result of waiver of immunity.
Barring a last-minute miracle at the Capitol, boundaries for new legislative and congressional districts will be drawn by a nonpartisan expert, and ratified by the judges in late May.