Across
- 2. - the president may refuse to sign a bill, instead the bill is sent back to congress with a message giving president’s reasons for rejecting it
- 4. legislature - a lawmaking body of two houses
- 8. - legal protection
- 10. - distributed as in the seats in the House of Representation
- 11. - a member means that a person must give up his or her seat in Congress
- 12. - is a practice drawing district lines that favor a particular political party, politician, or group of people
- 16. - proposed law
- 17. - accuses an officeholder of misconduct
- 18. - counts votes, encourage party loyalty, and ensures the party’s members are present for important votes
- 19. - formal disapproval of a member’s action
- 21. - the legislative procedure for ending debate in the senate and taking a vote
- 22. veto - a means by which the president can reject a bill, when congress is not in a session, by not signing it
Down
- 1. - one of each year of the term
- 3. pro tempore - the official who presides over the sedente in the vice president’s absence
- 5. - a law
- 6. - is an act that betrays or endangers one’s country
- 7. powers - the powers that congress has exercised under this clause
- 9. bill approving the sending of money, which began in the house of representatives tatives
- 13. clause - Article 1, section 8 of the US constitution;known as the”necessary and proper” clause that allows congress to extend delegated powers
- 14. - to prevent the Senate from taking a vote on a bill, some senators may threaten to talk for many hours
- 15. - the formal disapproval of the actions of a member by congress by other members
- 20. of the House - the person who presides over the House when it is in session