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Across 1. when the president refuses to sign a bill 5. possible law approving the spending of money 7. a law 9. when the president does not sign a bill within 10 days when Congress is not in session, preventing it from becoming law 10. proposed law 13. to accuse an office holder of misconduct 18. delaying votes in the Senate by making lengthy speeches 19. meetings of Congress 20. officer who persuades party members to vote for party-sponsored legislation 21. a series of steps by which a task is completed 22. president “for the time being” who presides over the Senate when the vice president is absent 23. part of the Constitution giving Congress the power to do any action relating to its delegated powers that it considers “necessary and proper”

Down 2. act that betrays or endangers one’s country 3. distributed 4. lawmaking body of two houses 6. legal protection 8. formal disapproval of the actions of a member of Congress 11. the person who presides over the House of Representatives 12. authority that Congress has claimed under the elastic clause 14. when a person must give up his or her seat in Congress 15. drawing district lines that favor a particular political party, politician, or group of people 16. procedure for ending debate in the Senate and taking a vote 17. private meetings of a political party