Vocabulary

3. The mighty list of the federal projects.
6. Members of congress that help constituents.
9. Congressional committees on few subject matter areas with membership drawn from both houses.
11. A legislature divided into two houses.
15. The principal leader of the minority party in the house of Representatives in the senate.
16. Already an office.
17. A proposed law.
18. Reviews all bills before they go to full house.
19. Appointed for a specific purpose such as the Watergate Investigation.

1. A rule for picking committee chairs in effect until 1970s.
2. Party leaders who work with the majority leader
4. Congress monitoring the bureaucracy and its administration of policy performed mainly through hearings.
5. The most important influences of the congressional agenda.
7. Formed when the senate and the house pass a particular bill in different forms.
8. Strategy of the senate where opponents try to talk it to death.
10. Members of congress sharing some int. or characteristics.
12. Principal partisan ally of the house.
13. Separate subject matter committees that handle bills in different policy areas.
14. Office mandated by the constitution.