U.S. History Kassius Maynard

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Across
  1. 3. A temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the House or Senate
  2. 4. The minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  3. 5. Trade among the states
  4. 9. A legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
  5. 10. The work a lawmaker dose to help constituents with problems
  6. 12. The power of an executive to reject one or more items in a bill without vetoing the entire
  7. 13. a resolution adopted by both houses of a legislative assembly that does not require the signature of the chief executive and that does not have the force of law
  8. 15. Laws that are passed by congress to appropriate money for local federal projects
  9. 18. A resolution that cover matters requiring the action of the house and senate but on which a law is not needed
  10. 20. Rule that forbids members of congress to offer amendments to a bill from the floor
  11. 25. A member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who runs the lawmaker's office, supervises the schedule, and gives advice
  12. 27. A bill dealing with individual people or places
  13. 30. A proposal law
  14. 31. A private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
  15. 34. A paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  16. 39. A motion placed on a bill in the senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object.
  17. 40. 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
  18. 41. The exclusive right to publish and sell a literary, musical, or artistic work for a specified period of time.
  19. 42. Approval of government spending
  20. 44. Direct contact made by lobbyist to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors
  21. 47. Powers directly stated in the constitution
  22. 51. Willful obstruction of justice
  23. 52. A population count
  24. 56. Rejection of a bill by the president
  25. 57. A required government expenditure that continues from one year to the next
  26. 59. A person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  27. 60. A provision that Congress wrote into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of executive agencies
  28. 63. The money that people and businesses pay to support the activities of the government
  29. 64. A group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  30. 66. A statement adopted to cover matters affecting only one house
  31. 70. Lying under oath
  32. 72. Powers that government requires to carry out its expressed powers
  33. 73. Authority shared by two or more committees
  34. 74. A bill that establishes a program and says how much can be spent on the program
  35. 75. A proposed law to authorize spending money
Down
  1. 1. When a president kills a bill passed during the last 10 days congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it
  2. 2. The president’s refusal to spend money Congress has voted to fund a program
  3. 3. meeting
  4. 6. A proposed law to authorize spending money
  5. 7. session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  6. 8. A member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who makes a certain that the lawmaker is well informed about proposed legislation
  7. 11. A system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee
  8. 14. The exclusive right to an inverter to manufacture, use, and sell his or her invention for a specific period, currently 20 years
  9. 16. To set up new district lines after reappointment is complete
  10. 17. The formal accusation of misconduct in office
  11. 19. The yearly financial plan for the federal government
  12. 21. Part of a funding bill that will go to a certain purpose
  13. 22. A provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered on the bill
  14. 23. When one party controls the White House and the other controls the House and the other controls the House and Senate
  15. 24. Power of the legislative branch to review the policies, programs, and activities of the executive branch on an ongoing basis
  16. 26. 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
  17. 28. A bill that sets up a federal program and specifies how much money may be appropriated for the program
  18. 29. A motion by all members of the senate who are present to set aside formal rules and consider a bill from the calendar
  19. 32. The process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
  20. 33. An agreement by 2 or more lawmakers to support each other's bills
  21. 35. A two chamber legislature
  22. 36. To draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  23. 37. As a whole
  24. 38. A resolution passed in the same form by both house
  25. 43. The people who work directly for individual senators and representatives
  26. 45. The people who work for house and senate
  27. 46. A method of defeating a bill in the senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  28. 48. The senate member, elected by the senate, who stands in as president of the senate in the absence of the vice president
  29. 49. A procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  30. 50. Rule that permits floor debate and the addition of amendments to the bill
  31. 53. A permanent committee in congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  32. 54. A temporary joint committee set up when the house and the senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  33. 55. A law for raising money
  34. 58. A group of people who share common goals
  35. 61. An assistant to the party floor leader in the legislative
  36. 62. A member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who handles request for help from constituents
  37. 65. A vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
  38. 67. Elected official who is already in office
  39. 68. A bill dealing with general matters and applying to the nation
  40. 69. A schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in congress
  41. 71. Freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts