Unit 5: Congress & the Executive Branch

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Across
  1. 1. strategy in senate to talk a bill to death
  2. 6. list of federal projects, grants, and contract available to cities, businesses, colleges and institutions in a congressional district
  3. 8. last year’s budget is the best predictor of the next year’s budget, plus some more.
  4. 12. An excess of federal expenditures over federal revenues (in a given year)
  5. 14. removal of the president because of treason, bribery, or high crimes
  6. 15. A policy document allocating burdens (taxes) and benefits (expenditures)
Down
  1. 2. individuals who already hold office
  2. 3. few subject matter areas with membership drawn from both houses
  3. 4. a group of presidential advisers not mentioned in the constitution
  4. 5. Sources of money for the government
  5. 7. What the government spends money on
  6. 9. Permits the vice president to become acting president if the president is disabled or deceased
  7. 10. the constitutional power of the president to send a bill back to Congress
  8. 11. a type of veto occurring when congress adjourns within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president and the president simply lets the bill die
  9. 13. voters support congressional candidates because of their support for the president