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