Across
- 2. Majority leader/ the person elected by the majority party who serves as the spokesperson for the majority party in the senate.
- 5. Committees/ Permanet committees of the house of repersentatives that address the major areas in which most proposed laws fall, such as argiculture, the budget, and armed services.
- 7. of the senate/ a position held by the vice president of the united states, who presides over debate in the senate chamber.
- 8. Resoultion/A congressional mesure used in certain out-if-the-ordinary circumstances and has the force of law if passed by both houses.
- 10. Mandering/ the drawing of district boundries for political advantage.
- 12. to add an unpopular provision to a bill that is likely to be passed so that addition may "ride" along with the bill that is passed.
- 13. of Attainder/ a law that punishs a person without trail.
- 14. A congressional act or bill that sets aside funds for a specific purpose.
- 16. of Habeas law/ a Court order that faces the police to present a person in court to face charges.
Down
- 1. the vote to end debate of a bill in the senate.
- 3. Facto laws/ laws that criminalize an action that took place in the past and that was legal at the time also means " from after the fact".
- 4. the redistributation of the seats in the house of representtives amoung the states based on the results of the censeus.
- 6. The Process of charging officals in the executive and judicial branches with wrong doing and bringing them to trial.
- 9. the people of a particular geograpchic area who are represented by a lawmaking body.
- 11. vote/ a vote in which each member of congress is requried to publicaly state his or her vote.
- 15. veto/ which a president can reject a bill, when congress is not in session, by not signing it.