The Legislative Branch

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Across
  1. 3. The power of Congress to monitor, review, and investigate how federal agencies implement laws and manage programs.
  2. 4. Meetings where members discuss strategy, choose leaders, and decide their shared goals.
  3. 7. Powers not listed word for word but considered essential for Congress to do its job.
  4. 8. The party with the most members in the House or Senate.
  5. 9. A change, correction, or addition made to a bill during committee markup or floor debate.
  6. 12. A strategy in which lawmakers agree to support each other’s bills or priorities in order to gain enough votes to pass legislation.
Down
  1. 1. A Senate tactic in which one or more senators delay or block a vote on a bill by extending debate, often for a long period of time.
  2. 2. Their job is to count votes and make sure party members support the group’s priorities.
  3. 5. A solution in which opposing sides each give up something in order to reach an agreement that most people can support.
  4. 6. A temporary committee created for a specific purpose, such as investigating an event or studying an issue not handled by standing committees.
  5. 10. The process in committee where members debate, edit, and revise the language of a bill before deciding whether to advance it.
  6. 11. A proposed law introduced in either the House or Senate for debate, amendment, and voting.