Unit 5 vocab

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Across
  1. 2. (the ability to send mail by one's signature rather than by postage—date back to the seventeenth-century English House of Commons.
  2. 3. (describes a government that has a two-house legislative system
  3. 4. (a joint committee traditionally made up of a three-member committee from each chamber.
  4. 8. (the creation of electoral districts with divergent ratios of voters to representatives.
  5. 10. (enacts laws that influence the daily lives of all Americans and is intended to serve as the voice of the people.
  6. 12. ( was an unofficial alliance of members
  7. 13. (mainly responsible for counting heads and rounding up party members for votes and quorum calls
  8. 14. (a law that automatically terminates an agency, a law, or a government program
  9. 15. ( loosely defined term for action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill
  10. 20. (an employment system that allots to employees rights and benefits according to the length of their employment.
  11. 22. (a committee whose members are from two or more different organizations, or from both chambers of a bicameral legislative body legislativeoversight ( the review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs and policy implementation
  12. 23. (Senate procedure that limits further consideration of a pending proposal to thirty hours in order to end a filibuster.
  13. 24. (serves as the parliamentary head of a committee.
  14. 26. (an official form of approval for something.
  15. 28. (by manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency.
  16. 30. (pecial orders for the consideration of legislation
  17. 34. (he minimum number of members of an assembly or society that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid.
  18. 36. (The Speaker is simultaneously the House's presiding officer, party leader, and the institution's administrative head, among other duties.
  19. 37. (provides financial analysis, advice, and oversight of the organizations budget
  20. 38. (comprised of 33 Democrats and 26 Republicans and organized into 12 subcommittees in the 117th Congress
  21. 39. (social work involving direct consideration of the problems
Down
  1. 1. (are created by a resolution to conduct investigations or consider measures, usually on a specific topic
  2. 5. (bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee
  3. 6. (the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission
  4. 7. (allowing Congress to make laws not specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
  5. 9. (any bill, except the Budget Bill(s) and debt bills, that increases or decreases the total revenues available for appropriation, including any sales tax exemption bill.
  6. 11. (develops the minority position; negotiates with the majority party; directs minority caucus activities on the floor
  7. 16. (the holding of an office or the period during which one is held.
  8. 17. (allows any and all event producers or industry organizations to adopt our age grids
  9. 18. (This officer is charged with scheduling legislation for floor consideration
  10. 19. (A safe seat is an electoral district
  11. 21. (they close the underlying bill to being amended on the House floor
  12. 25. (Both party leaders, also called floor leaders, serve as the spokesperson for their party's positions on the issues and coordinate their respective legislative strategies.
  13. 27. (a high-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president.
  14. 29. (used to make or amend rules that apply to both houses.
  15. 31. (a permanent committee that meets regularly.
  16. 32. (closed meeting of a group of persons
  17. 33. (assign to a particular category or class, especially in a manner that is too rigid or exclusive.
  18. 35. (set a legal restriction on the length of time an elected official may hold office.