Vocabulary

8. of the senate where opponents try to talk it to death.
10. all bills before they go to full house.
13. monitoring the bureaucracy and its administration of policy performed mainly through hearings.
15. mighty list of the federal projects.
17. of congress sharing some int. or characteristics.
18. leaders who work with the majority leader
19. legislature divided into two houses.

1. mandated by the constitution.
2. an office.
3. subject matter committees that handle bills in different policy areas.
4. principal leader of the minority party in the house of Representatives in the senate.
5. committees on few subject matter areas with membership drawn from both houses.
6. when the senate and the house pass a particular bill in different forms.
7. proposed law.
9. most important influences of the congressional agenda.
11. for a specific purpose such as the Watergate Investigation.
12. partisan ally of the house.
14. of congress that help constituents.
16. rule for picking committee chairs in effect until 1970s.