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a person employed to aid an executive, as in a corporate department, by coordinating such office services and procedures as the supervision, maintenance, and control of the flow of work and programs, personnel, budgeting, records, etc., |
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| A proposed law to authorize spending money |
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| relative to a two-house legislative body |
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| a schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in Congress |
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| The work a lawmaker does to help constituents with problems |
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| A member of a lawmaker's personal staff who handles requests help from constituents |
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| a private meeting of party leaders choose candidates for office |
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| a vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions |
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| A procedure that allows each senator to speak only 1 hour on a bill under debate |
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| the people who work for House and Senate |
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| A person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent |
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| willful obstruction of justice |
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| powers directly stated in the Constution |
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| a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legistlative process and preventing a vote |
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| to draw a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in election |
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| a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill |
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| freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts |
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| A formal accusation of misconduct in office against a public offical |
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| powers the government requires to carry out its expressed constitutional powers |
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| the president's refusal to spend money Congress has voted to fund a program |
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| trade agreement between 2 or more states |
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| a member of a lawmaker's personal staff who makes certain that the lawmaker is well informed about the proposed legislative |
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| the provisions congress wrote into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of executive |
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| an agreement by two or more lawmakers to support each other's bill |
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| the Speaker's top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party's legislative program and to steer important bills throught the House |
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| the yearly financial plan for the federal government |
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| necessary and proper clause |
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| Article 1 section 8, of the Constitution, which gives congress the power to make all laws that are necessary and proper for carrying out its duties |
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| the people who work directly for individal senators and representatives |
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| laws passed by congress that appropate money for local federal powers |
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| the Senate member elected by the Senate who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president |
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| a bill dealing with individual people or places |
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| a bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation |
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| the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative bodyto take offical actions |
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| the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every cencus |
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| to set up new district lines after reappointing is complete |
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| a law passed to raise money |
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| a provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered in the bill |
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