Across
- 1. a fundemental check and balance
- 5. a meeting of supporters/members of specefic party or movement
- 6. not a social worker but a worker of the government agency
- 9. an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline
- 13. a procedure for ending a debate
- 16. a type of legislation used in U.S. to authorize the activities of various agencies
- 17. ability to send mail by one's signature rather than by postage
- 18. a small legislative committee appointed for a special purpose.
- 22. the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body
- 23. an action term designed to prolong debate
- 24. not all amendments are allowed
- 25. any or all amendments are allowed
- 26. a bill that increase or decrease the total revenues
- 27. a system that gives preference to workers based on years of service
- 28. a high-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president.
- 29. the speaker of the U.S. house of representatives
- 30. a temporary, ad hoc panel composed of House and Senate conferees
Down
- 2. a holder of an office or position
- 3. head of majority party in a legislative body
- 4. political manipulation of a electoral district boundaries
- 7. an act of setting apart something for its application to a particular usage
- 8. spokesperson for their party's position
- 10. generally used to make or amend rules that apply to both houses
- 11. permanent committees established under the standing rules of the Senate and specialize in the consideration of particular subject areas
- 12. the minimum numbers of members of a deliberative assembly
- 14. a meeting between representatives of different countries
- 15. a law that automatically terminates an agency/law/or government program
- 19. a legal restriction on something
- 20. a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor of consideration
- 21. the creation of electoral districts with divergent ratios of voters to representatives