CHAPTER 6&7
Across
- 2. lying under oath
- 4. approval of government spending
- 6. social programs that continue from one year to the next
- 8. a formal accusation of misconduct in office
- 10. proposed laws to authorize spending money
- 14. helping constituents with problems
- 17. the largest and most powerful lobbies have their own buildings and full time professional staffs in the nation's capital
- 19. sometimes called the enumerated powers
- 20. the representatives of interest groups
- 21. covers matters affecting only one house of congress and is passed by that house alone
- 22. forbids members to offer any amendments to a bill from the floor
- 23. that people and businesses pay to support the government
- 24. laws for raising money
- 25. the yearly financial plan for the national government
Down
- 1. deal with general matters and apply to the entire nation
- 3. sets up a federal program and specifies how much money may be appropriated fro the program
- 5. implies the congress has powers beyond those expressed in the first 17 clauses
- 7. the president's refusal to spend money Congress has voted to fund a program
- 9. allowed congress to expand its role to meet the needs of a growing nation
- 11. deal with individual people or places
- 12. commerce among the states
- 13. freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts
- 15. a legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
- 16. agreements by two or more lawmakers to support each other's bills
- 18. congress wrote provisions into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of the executive agencies that carried out those laws