Across
- 3. formed to share specific tasks within the jurisdiction of the Homeland Security
- 5. lawmakers who are obligated to a political party
- 6. lawmakers who vote based on judgment
- 8. to begin a session
- 12. leader of the political party that got the minority vote
- 14. the ideals an elected official represents
- 16. distributed among a legislative body
- 17. a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote
- 20. ownership of intellectual property
- 22. leader of the political party that got the majority vote
- 26. presiding officer over the senate
- 29. committees that are created by a resolution to conduct investigations
- 30. the drawing of electoral district lines
- 31. willfully lying in court
- 32. ownership of a design for a product
Down
- 1. a high-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president.
- 2. the presiding officer of the house of representatives
- 3. a writ ordering a person to court
- 4. the process by which a person non-native to america is made american
- 7. permanent legislative panels made by the house of representatives
- 9. a veto preformed by taking no action and timing out the law
- 10. period of time each year that congress meets
- 11. a period of time that a government official serves
- 13. committee that conduct studies rather than consider measures
- 14. general agreement
- 15. meeting of supporters/members of a political party
- 16. to end a session
- 18. congressional power to regulate interstate and foreign trade
- 19. when a governmental body purposefully “forgets” to do something and it isn’t ever gone through with
- 21. the people with the authority to represent others in a conference
- 23. a presidential decree against a new law
- 24. current officeholder
- 25. someone who prolongs a debate to delay or prevet a decision
- 27. to free someone accused of a crime
- 28. to charge an executive with a crime