Key Terms: Legislative Branch
Across
- 6. committee not acting on a bill, in turn killing it
- 9. elected heads from both parties in the Senate; are assistant leaders who round out votes and keep track of voting
- 11. where congressional districts are redrawn and seats become redistributed for states in the house of representatives
- 12. meeting where local members can show support/preference of the candidates
- 13. group that pools contributions towards a candidate during elections
- 16. halting the debate and voting
- 18. government spending towards localized projects for a representative’s district
- 19. seeking to influence a political issue
- 20. aka supply/spending bill, authorizes government the ability to spend money
Down
- 1. change/amendment attachment to a bill that has no relation to its subject
- 2. written command telling a person to attend court
- 3. the majority party in a legislative body
- 4. political method where one or more members in a legislative body lengthen debate on certain proposed legislations in order to delay the decision
- 5. act of disobedience in court towards government, specifically towards the judicial branch
- 7. expression of opinion in house or senate to settle procedural matters in either body
- 8. condemnation, or to call certain actions wrong, because they differ from standards
- 10. indirect veto of a bill/law by not taking any action or signing it
- 14. exchanging favors, voting for something in return for another thing
- 15. currently in office and having a certain duty or job to do
- 17. the manipulation of certain boundaries (in an election standpoint) and rules to favor one party/group