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Across
  1. 4. - lasting a short amount of time
  2. 5. - a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its finds to the House or Senate
  3. 7. - a government security
  4. 8. - an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
  5. 9. - to commit to an activity
  6. 12. - powers the government requires to carry out its expressed constitutional powers
  7. 15. - a proposed law
  8. 16. - the Speaker’s top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party’s legislative program and to steer important bills through the House
  9. 17. - the president’s refusal to spend money Congress has voted to fund a program
  10. 18. - the power of an executive to reject one or more items in a bill without vetoing the entire bill
  11. 19. - the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  12. 22. - capable of readily adapting to change
  13. 23. - a series of events, as in time
  14. 24. - an important topic or problem for debate or discussion
  15. 27. - prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree
  16. 28. - a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  17. 29. - to make up, form, compose
  18. 30. - the yearly financial plan for the federal government
Down
  1. 1. - the Senate member who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president
  2. 2. - corresponding to
  3. 3. - a committee that consists of members from both the House and Senate, formed to act as a study group that reports back to the House and Senate on a topic or bill
  4. 6. - powers directly stated in the Constitution
  5. 10. - to correct or improve
  6. 11. - a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and consider a bill from the calendar
  7. 13. - a system that gives the members of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee
  8. 14. - a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  9. 20. - when one party controls the White House and the other controls the House and Senate
  10. 21. - having distinct or particular characteristics
  11. 25. - a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  12. 26. - a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object