Honors Government Crossword

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Across
  1. 6. powers that the government requires to carry out the express constitutional powers
  2. 9. the yearly financial plan for the national government
  3. 12. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the Senate or the House
  4. 14. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
  5. 15. a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
  6. 16. approval of government spending
  7. 18. a statement adopted to cover matters affecting only one house of Congress
  8. 20. member of a lawmaker’s personal staff that makes certain that the lawmaker is well informed about proposed legislation
  9. 26. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
  10. 27. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  11. 29. a system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee
  12. 30. a provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered in the bill
  13. 32. member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who runs the lawmaker’s office, supervises the schedule, and gives advice
  14. 33. laws passed by Congress that appropriate money for local federal projects
  15. 35. freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts
  16. 36. powers directly stated in the Constitution
  17. 38. the Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president
  18. 39. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  19. 40. an agreement by two or more lawmakers to support each other’s bills
  20. 41. a bill dealing with individual people or places
  21. 42. the money that people and businesses pay to support the activities of the government
  22. 43. a proposed law
  23. 44. 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
  24. 45. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
  25. 49. a schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in Congress
  26. 50. willful obstruction of justice
  27. 51. the process of reassessing representation based on population, after every census
  28. 53. the provisions Congress wrote into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of executive agencies
  29. 55. when a president stops a bill from being passed during the last ten days Congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it
  30. 57. the work that a lawmaker does to help constituents with problems
  31. 58. the people who work for House and Senate committees
  32. 59. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
Down
  1. 1. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  2. 2. member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who handles requests for help from constituents
  3. 3. direct contact made by a lobbyist in order to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors
  4. 4. a two chamber legislature
  5. 5. rule that forbids members of Congress to offer amendment to a bill from the floor
  6. 7. a population count
  7. 8. a formal accusation of misconduct in office against a public official
  8. 10. elected official that is already in office
  9. 11. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  10. 13. a required government expenditure that continues from one year to the next
  11. 17. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  12. 18. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  13. 19. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  14. 21. a period of time during which a legislature meets to conduct business
  15. 22. a bill that sets up a federal program and specifies how much money may be appropriated for the program
  16. 23. rejection of a bill
  17. 24. as a whole; for example, statewide
  18. 25. 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
  19. 28. the president’s refusal to spend money Congress has voted to fund a program
  20. 31. a law proposed to raise money
  21. 34. trade among the states
  22. 37. the people who work directly for individual senators and representatives
  23. 46. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  24. 47. interest group representative
  25. 48. lying under oath
  26. 52. a committee of the House and the Senate that usually acts as a study group and reports its findings back to the House and the Senate
  27. 54. a legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
  28. 55. a bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation
  29. 56. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate