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- 4. powers that the government requires to carry out the express constitutional powers
- 5. the president’s refusal to spend money Congress has voted to fund a program
- 7. powers directly stated in the Constitution
- 11. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 13. the process of reassessing representation based on population, after every census
- 15. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
- 16. the people who work for House and Senate committees
- 17. the yearly financial plan for the national government
- 18. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 20. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 23. member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who runs the lawmaker’s office, supervises the schedule, and gives advice
- 25. a schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in Congress
- 26. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 28. the Speaker’s top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party’s legislative program and to steer important bills through the house
- 29. a legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
- 30. direct contact made by a lobbyist in order to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors
- 31. approval of government spending
- 34. an agreement by two or more lawmakers to support each other’s bills
- 35. a committee of the House and the Senate that usually acts as a study group and reports its findings back to the House and the Senate
- 38. rejection of a bill
- 42. the money that people and businesses pay to support the activities of the government
- 43. a law proposed to raise money
- 45. a provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered in the bill
- 48. laws passed by Congress that appropriate money for local federal projects
- 51. rule that forbids members of Congress to offer amendment to a bill from the floor
- 52. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 53. a bill dealing with individual people or places
- 55. the Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president
- 56. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 57. a bill that sets up a federal program and specifies how much money may be appropriated for the program
- 58. lying under oath
- 59. freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts
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- 1. elected official that is already in office
- 2. a population count
- 3. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
- 4. trade among the states
- 6. a formal accusation of misconduct in office against a public official
- 8. member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who handles requests for help from constituents
- 9. the people who work directly for individual senators and representatives
- 10. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the Senate or the House
- 12. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
- 14. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 17. 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. the work that a lawmaker does to help constituents with problems
- 21. a two chamber legislature
- 22. interest group representative
- 24. a system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee
- 27. the provisions Congress wrote into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of executive agencies
- 32. when a president stops a bill from being passed during the last ten days Congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it
- 33. member of a lawmaker’s personal staff that makes certain that the lawmaker is well informed about proposed legislation
- 36. a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
- 37. a required government expenditure that continues from one year to the next
- 39. willful obstruction of justice
- 40. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
- 41. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 44. as a whole; for example, statewide
- 46. a statement adopted to cover matters affecting only one house of Congress
- 47. a bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation
- 49. a proposed law
- 50. a period of time during which a legislature meets to conduct business
- 54. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions