Legislative Branch

3. a proposed law to authorize spending money
5. Two chamber legislature
9. a legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
10. a bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation
12. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
16. bill a bill that sets up a federal program and specifies how much money many be appropriated for the program
18. when a president kills a bill during the last ten days Congress is in session by refusing to act upon it
20. willful obstruction of justice
22. a procedure that allows each Senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
26. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
27. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
28. the Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the Vice President
30. the leader of the majority party who serves as the presiding officer of the House of Representatives
31. a committee of the House and the Senate that usually acts as a study group and reports its findings back to the House and Senate
32. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the Senate or House
33. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent

1. to draw a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
2. lying under oath
4. a formal accusation of misconduct in office of a public official
6. the money that people and businesses pay to support the activities of the government
7. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility
8. a vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions
11. freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts
13. a yearly financial plan for the national government
14. a proposed law
15. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
17. elected official that is already in office
19. a required government expenditure that continues from one year to the next
21. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
23. the process of reassigning representation based on population after every census
24. a bill dealing with individual people or places
25. 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 law proposed to raise money