Chapter 11:Congress

3. pro tempore the senator who acts in the absence of the actual president of the senate, who is also the vice president of the United States.
5. a parliamentary maneuver used in the Senate to extend debate on a piece of legislation as long as possible.
6. the body of voters, or constituents, represented by a partner politician.
7. proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature.
8. the right to review and monitor other bodies such as the executive branch.
10. powers the power not neither enumerated nor implied but assumed to exist as a direct result of the country's existence.
13. a parliamentary process to end a debate in the Senate, as a measure against the filibuster.
14. is the political process that results from dividing a legislature into a separate assemblies.

1. the process by which seat in the house of representative are distributed among the fifty states.
2. powers the power given explicitly to the federal government by the constitution to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, raise and support armies, declare war, coin money, and conduct foreign affairs.
4. committee a permanent legislative committee that meets regularly.
6. representation of the relationship between congress and the United States as a whole, and whether the institution itself represents the American people.
9. process the powers not specifically detailed in the U.S. Constitution but inferred as necessary to achieve the objectives of the national government.
11. of the house the presiding officer of the House of Representatives and the leader of the majority party.
12. in the House and the Senate a high leadership position whose primary duty is to enforce voting discipline in the chambers and conferences.