Across
- 3. A temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the House or Senate
- 4. The minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 5. Trade among the states
- 9. A legal order that a person appear or produce requested documents
- 10. The work a lawmaker dose to help constituents with problems
- 12. The power of an executive to reject one or more items in a bill without vetoing the entire
- 13. a resolution adopted by both houses of a legislative assembly that does not require the signature of the chief executive and that does not have the force of law
- 15. Laws that are passed by congress to appropriate money for local federal projects
- 18. A resolution that cover matters requiring the action of the house and senate but on which a law is not needed
- 20. Rule that forbids members of congress to offer amendments to a bill from the floor
- 25. A member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who runs the lawmaker's office, supervises the schedule, and gives advice
- 27. A bill dealing with individual people or places
- 30. A proposal law
- 31. A private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
- 34. A paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
- 39. A motion placed on a bill in the senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object.
- 40. The speaker’s top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party’s legislative program and to steer important bills through the House
- 41. The exclusive right to publish and sell a literary, musical, or artistic work for a specified period of time.
- 42. Approval of government spending
- 44. Direct contact made by lobbyist to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors
- 47. Powers directly stated in the constitution
- 51. Willful obstruction of justice
- 52. A population count
- 56. Rejection of a bill by the president
- 57. A required government expenditure that continues from one year to the next
- 59. A person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 60. A provision that Congress wrote into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of executive agencies
- 63. The money that people and businesses pay to support the activities of the government
- 64. A group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
- 66. A statement adopted to cover matters affecting only one house
- 70. Lying under oath
- 72. Powers that government requires to carry out its expressed powers
- 73. Authority shared by two or more committees
- 74. A bill that establishes a program and says how much can be spent on the program
- 75. A proposed law to authorize spending money
Down
- 1. When a president kills a bill passed during the last 10 days congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it
- 2. The president’s refusal to spend money Congress has voted to fund a program
- 3. meeting
- 6. A proposed law to authorize spending money
- 7. session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 8. A member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who makes a certain that the lawmaker is well informed about proposed legislation
- 11. A system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee
- 14. The exclusive right to an inverter to manufacture, use, and sell his or her invention for a specific period, currently 20 years
- 16. To set up new district lines after reappointment is complete
- 17. The formal accusation of misconduct in office
- 19. The yearly financial plan for the federal government
- 21. Part of a funding bill that will go to a certain purpose
- 22. A provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered on the bill
- 23. When one party controls the White House and the other controls the House and the other controls the House and Senate
- 24. Power of the legislative branch to review the policies, programs, and activities of the executive branch on an ongoing basis
- 26. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which gives congress the power to make all laws that are necessary and proper for carrying out its duties
- 28. A bill that sets up a federal program and specifies how much money may be appropriated for the program
- 29. A motion by all members of the senate who are present to set aside formal rules and consider a bill from the calendar
- 32. The process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
- 33. An agreement by 2 or more lawmakers to support each other's bills
- 35. A two chamber legislature
- 36. To draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 37. As a whole
- 38. A resolution passed in the same form by both house
- 43. The people who work directly for individual senators and representatives
- 45. The people who work for house and senate
- 46. A method of defeating a bill in the senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 48. The senate member, elected by the senate, who stands in as president of the senate in the absence of the vice president
- 49. A procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 50. Rule that permits floor debate and the addition of amendments to the bill
- 53. A permanent committee in congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
- 54. A temporary joint committee set up when the house and the senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 55. A law for raising money
- 58. A group of people who share common goals
- 61. An assistant to the party floor leader in the legislative
- 62. A member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who handles request for help from constituents
- 65. A vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
- 67. Elected official who is already in office
- 68. A bill dealing with general matters and applying to the nation
- 69. A schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in congress
- 71. Freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts