Unit 2

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Across
  1. 3. Meeting at which a party’s delegates vote to pick their presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
  2. 9. The regularly scheduled election at which voters make a final selection of
  3. 10. Various tactics (usually long speeches) aimed at defeating a bill in a legislative body by preventing a final vote; associated with the U.S. Senate.
  4. 11. Procedure that may be used to limit or end floor debate in a legislative body.
Down
  1. 1. Temporary joint committee created to reconcile differences between the two houses’ versions of a bill
  2. 2. Group of persons chosen in each state and the District of Columbia every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President.
  3. 4. Permanent committee in a legislative body to which bills in a specified
  4. 5. Type of veto a chief executive may use after a legislature has adjourned; when the chief executive does not sign or reject a bill within the time allowed to do so.
  5. 6. matter area are referred.
  6. 7. Chief executive’s power to reject a bill passed by a legislature.
  7. 8. A proposed law presented to a legislative body for consideration.