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