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  1. 1. Editing of a bill that occurs in committees
  2. 4. Hybrid of delegate and trustee model and involves delegates acting as delegates and trustees
  3. 7. Ways and Means Committee Which House committee has jurisdiction over social security and unemployment benefits?
  4. 8. Decides to not move a bill forwards and to debate in later time or not at all
  5. 9. Committee is composed of a larger committee
  6. 11. What is it called when the president can reject the bill that has already been passed by Congress.
  7. 13. Which committee has influence over how legislation goes through the House?
  8. 14. Involved in Step 2 of bills becoming laws, occurs within committees
  9. 16. Designated funds or resources for a group or organization, often seen in an appropriations bill
  10. 17. Which type of committee is permanent and evaluates bills?
  11. 18. When members of Congress support bills that they otherwise might not vote for in exchange for other members’ vote on bills that are very important
Down
  1. 2. The automatic death of a bill passed by the House of Senate when the president fails to sign the bill in the last 10 days of a legislative session
  2. 3. What do you call the Congressperson who introduces a bill to the floor?
  3. 5. what is added to weaken a bill to make it less appealing to ruin the chance of it getting passed?
  4. 6. Which committee involves both chambers of Congress to markup a bill?
  5. 10. Government spending for localized projects primarily to a representative's district
  6. 12. A mechanism for forcing a standing committee to report a bill to the floor in the U.S House.
  7. 15. Assistance Provided by members of congress to their constituents in solving problems with the federal bureaucracy or addressing other specific concerns