CHAPTER 6&7

6. approval of government spending
8. lying under oath
10. allowed congress to expand its role to meet the needs of a growing nation
12. laws for raising money
14. a formal accusation of misconduct in office
15. sets up a federal program and specifies how much money may be appropriated fro the program
16. agreements by two or more lawmakers to support each other's bills
18. implies the congress has powers beyond those expressed in the first 17 clauses
22. congress wrote provisions into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of the executive agencies that carried out those laws
25. the representatives of interest groups

1. a legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
2. forbids members to offer any amendments to a bill from the floor
3. the president's refusal to spend money Congress has voted to fund a program
4. covers matters affecting only one house of congress and is passed by that house alone
5. proposed laws to authorize spending money
7. sometimes called the enumerated powers
9. the yearly financial plan for the national government
11. commerce among the states
13. money that people and businesses pay to support the government
17. helping constituents with problems
19. social programs that continue from one year to the next
20. deal with individual people or places
21. deal with general matters and apply to the entire nation
23. freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts
24. the largest and most powerful lobbies have their own buildings and full time professional staffs in the nation's capital