Chapter 11: Congress

2. 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 state.
3. in the house and in the senate, high leadership position whose primary duty is to enforce voting discipline in the chambers and conferences.
5. proposed legislation under consideration by a legislation.
6. the body of voters, or constituents, represented by a particular politician.
7. powers the powers neither enumerated nor implied but assumed to exist as a direct result of the country's existence.
9. is a parliamentary process to end a debate in the senate, as a measure against the filibuster, invoked when three-fifths of senators vote for the motion.
11. committee a permanent legislative committee that meets regularly.
12. powers the powers not specifically detailed in the U.S. constitution but as necessary to achieve the objectives of the national government.
13. a parliamentary maneuver used in the senate to extend debate on a piece of legislation as long as possible, topically with the intended purpose of obstructing or killing it.
14. the right to review and monitor other bodies such as the executive branch.

1. the process by which seats in the House of Representatives are distributed are among the fifty states.
4. of the house the presiding officer of the house of representatives and the leader of the majority party.
5. is the political process that results from dividing a legislature into two separate assemblies.
8. representative of the relationship between congress and the united states as a whole, and whether the institution itself represents the american people.
10. powers the powers given 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.