Across
- 3. A Congressional leader who is responsible for getting party members to vote the way the party wants
- 6. A committee that includes House members and senators
- 8. A meeting of all the House members of one party
- 10. Petitioning a court for this writ safeguards Americans from being unlawfully jailed
- 12. A bill that sets aside money for a specific purpose
- 14. Proposed laws
- 16. Redistributing the House seats among the states after a census counts the population
- 17. A tax levied on someone but passed along to another person for payment (often included in the final price of a product)
- 19. A special committee created to carry out a specific task not already covered by an existing committee
- 21. The Necessary and Proper Clause is the source of these
- 22. A law that punishes someone without a trial
- 23. Gives Congress the power to regulate interstate economic activity
Down
- 1. A House leader who helps manage the actions and strategy of a party
- 2. Congress' power to investigate the other branches of government
- 4. The power to charge executive and judicial branch members with wrongdoing
- 5. The most powerful member of the House
- 7. Becoming a citizen
- 9. Drawing district boundaries to increase one party's political power
- 11. Distribution of House seats among the states based upon population
- 13. A paper that requires someone to testify as a witness, or to provide documents
- 15. Address major areas of legislation, such as agriculture or the budget or the armed services
- 18. A law that makes a prior action illegal, even though it was legal when it occurred
- 20. The people who live within one House member's district