Across
- 6. a two chamber legislature
- 8. the speaker's top assistant
- 9. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 11. person whom a member of congress has been elected to represent
- 12. group of people who share common goals to influence government and policy
- 14. a law at the local level
- 15. method of defeating a bill in the senate by stalling and preventing a vote
- 16. legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
Down
- 1. urban unit of government chartered by a state
- 2. freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts
- 3. elected official who is already in office
- 4. to draw a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 5. money that people and businesses pay to support the activities of the government
- 7. exclusive right to publish and sell a literary, musical, or artistic work
- 10. lying under oath
- 13. power of an executive to reject one or more items in a bill without vetoing the entire bill