Congressional Powers Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Keeps the government open and operating under previous levels of appropriation during times the House and Senate are controlled by different parties and cannot agree on an appropriation bill
  2. 4. The exclusive right to publish and sell a literary, musical, or artistic work for a specified period of time
  3. 6. A bill dealing with individual people or places
  4. 9. Arequired government expenditure that continues from one year to the next
  5. 11. The exclusive right of an inventor to manufacture, use, and sell his or her invention for a specific period, currently 20 years
  6. 17. The formal accusation of misconduct in office
  7. 21. A resolution that covers matters requiring the action of the House and Senate but on which a law is not needed
  8. 22. Sometimes called enumerated powers; powers directly stated in the constitution
  9. 24. An agreement by two or more lawmakers to support each other’s bills
  10. 25. A resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  11. 27. When one party controls the White House and the other controls the House and Senate
  12. 28. Authorizes the activities of the various agencies and programs that are part of the federal government of the United States
Down
  1. 2. How many presidents have been impeached since 1789?
  2. 3. A provision that Congress wrote into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of executive agencies
  3. 4. The largest political subdivision of a state
  4. 5. A statement adopted to cover matters affecting only one house of Congress
  5. 7. Laws proposed to authorize spending money
  6. 8. Approval of government spending
  7. 10. A paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  8. 12. Rule that forbids members of Congress to offer amendments to a bill from the floor
  9. 13. A provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered in the bill
  10. 14. A single-chamber legislature
  11. 15. A form of government wherein citizens rule themselves rather than electing representatives to govern on their behalf
  12. 16. Powers the government requires to carry out its expressed constitutional powers
  13. 18. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to make all laws that are necessary and proper for carrying out its duties
  14. 19. When a president kills a bill passed during the last 10 days Congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it
  15. 20. A legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
  16. 23. A bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation
  17. 26. A proposed law for raising money; Start in the House then go to the Senate