Across
- 2. the President's use of his image to influence public opinion
- 4. view that members of Congress base their decisions off of their constituents' wishes
- 8. choosing to watch/listen to media with which you already agree
- 9. talking a bill to death in the Senate
- 12. view that members of Congress base their decisions off of their own beliefs
- 13. executive leader in a parliamentary system
- 15. power of the President to reject a bill
- 16. informal advisory body to the President made up of the department secretaries and other chosen advisers
- 17. all of the departments and agencies within the executive branch that implement policy
- 18. type of rule in the House where any amendment can be made to a bill on the floor
- 19. type of government where the executive and legislative branches are controlled by opposite parties
- 20. agreement between the House and the Senate on a bill
Down
- 1. minimum number of members required to do business in Congress
- 3. leader of the Senate in lieu of the Vice President
- 5. a group of people with an interest/passion they wish to be supported by government
- 6. process of putting a law into action
- 7. power of the President to direct the actions of bureaucratic agencies through these written commands
- 10. the symbiotic relationship between Congress, a bureaucratic agency and an interest group that share the same policy concern
- 11. the formal bringing of charges against an elected official
- 14. a.k.a. pork barrel spending, spending on localized projects slipped in as an addendum to a spending bill