Congress and the President

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  1. 3. District lines must be ______; one must be able to draw the boundaries of the district with a single unbroken line.
  2. 5. This is a rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law.
  3. 10. This resolution was passed by Congress in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a 60-day period in peacetime unless Congress explicitly gives its approval for a longer period.
  4. 11. This is the only officer of the House of Representatives specifically mentioned in the Constitution; the chamber's most powerful position; traditionally a member of the majority party.
  5. 13. This is a formal international agreement entered into by the president that does not require the advice and consent of the Senate.
  6. 15. The true leader of the Senate is the ______.
  7. 16. This is the process of allotting congressional seats to each state according to its proportion of the population, following the decennial census.
  8. 17. If Congress adjourns before the ten days the president has to consider a bill, the president can choose not to sign the bill, which is called a ______.
  9. 18. This chamber in Congress has a Committee on Rules.
  10. 19. This is the process of redrawing congressional districts to reflect increases or decreases in seats allotted to the states, as well as population shifts within a state.
  11. 21. The Constitution specifies that the presiding officer of the Senate is the ______ of the United States.
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  1. 1. This is a petition that gives a majority of the House of Representatives the authority to bring an issue to the floor in the face of committee inaction.
  2. 2. This is a term for vote trading.
  3. 4. This is a session in which committee members offer changes to a bill before it goes to the floor.
  4. 6. This is the mechanism requiring the vote of sixty senators to cut off debate. This is the one way senators may end a filibuster.
  5. 7. This is a special joint committee created to reconcile differences in bills passed by the House and Senate.
  6. 8. This is an executive grant providing restoration of all rights and privileges of citizenship to a specific individual charged or convicted of a crime.
  7. 9. This is a role played by an elected representative who uses his or her own best judgement to make decisions.
  8. 12. This is the drawing of congressional districts to produce a particular electoral outcome without regard to the shape of the district.
  9. 14. This is an implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose information regarding confidential conversations or national security to Congress or the judiciary.
  10. 20. This is a role played by an elected representative who votes the way his or her constituents would want.