Across
- 1. Keeps the government open and operating under previous levels of appropriation during times the House and Senate are controlled by different parties and cannot agree on an appropriation bill
- 4. The exclusive right to publish and sell a literary, musical, or artistic work for a specified period of time
- 6. A bill dealing with individual people or places
- 9. Arequired government expenditure that continues from one year to the next
- 11. The exclusive right of an inventor to manufacture, use, and sell his or her invention for a specific period, currently 20 years
- 17. The formal accusation of misconduct in office
- 21. A resolution that covers matters requiring the action of the House and Senate but on which a law is not needed
- 22. Sometimes called enumerated powers; powers directly stated in the constitution
- 24. An agreement by two or more lawmakers to support each other’s bills
- 25. A resolution passed in the same form by both houses
- 27. When one party controls the White House and the other controls the House and Senate
- 28. Authorizes the activities of the various agencies and programs that are part of the federal government of the United States
Down
- 2. How many presidents have been impeached since 1789?
- 3. A provision that Congress wrote into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of executive agencies
- 4. The largest political subdivision of a state
- 5. A statement adopted to cover matters affecting only one house of Congress
- 7. Laws proposed to authorize spending money
- 8. Approval of government spending
- 10. A paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
- 12. Rule that forbids members of Congress to offer amendments to a bill from the floor
- 13. A provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered in the bill
- 14. A single-chamber legislature
- 15. A form of government wherein citizens rule themselves rather than electing representatives to govern on their behalf
- 16. Powers the government requires to carry out its expressed constitutional powers
- 18. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to make all laws that are necessary and proper for carrying out its duties
- 19. When a president kills a bill passed during the last 10 days Congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it
- 20. A legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
- 23. A bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation
- 26. A proposed law for raising money; Start in the House then go to the Senate