VOCABULARY
Optimistic or positive
What is an Sanguine
H.E.W.
What is the Health, Education, and Welfare Department
The basis or foundation upon which a system operates.
What is Infrastructure.
This term is used for compelling members to come to the chamber to conduct business
What is a quorum call
The name of the fictional town that the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" takes Place
What is Bedford Falls
The term for complicated channels of procedure.
What is Red Tape.
What were wisdom and good judgment
Secured in the possession of or assigned to a person
What is VESTED
N.I.S.T.
What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology
The title given to the head of the Department of Justice.
Who is the Attorney General.
Wesberry v. Sanders states this is too important in our free society to be stripped of judicial protection
What is the right to vote
The popular Christmas beverage also known as "milk punch"
What is eggnog
A referendum provision allows for a proposal to become a law by a vote from this
What are the people
The weakening of this will weaken society and its government
What is the family
The process of giving sworn evidence
What isDEPOSITION
What is the International Police Organization
The department that oversees U.S. relations with other countries
What is The State Department
This amendment to the Constitution changed the way senators are elected.
What is the 17th Amendment
The German meaning of Santa's reindeer Donner & Blitzen
What are thunder & lightening
This state has one of the most difficult amendment processes
What is Tennessee
John Adams said free government rests upon this
What is public and private morality
Required by law or rule
What is COMPULSORY
F.N.M.A.
What is the Federal National Mortgage Association
The department responsible for protecting the natural environment, developing natural resources, and managing national parks.
What is the Department of the Interior.
The period between an election and when the new Congress begins.
What is a Lame-Duck session.
In the song Jingle Bells, this kind of sleigh is mentioned
What is a one horse open sleigh
A governor serves as the head of this military organization.
What is the National Guard.
God chose these two to be the first human leaders over all of Israel
Who are Moses and Joshua
Bitter or abusive language
What is to VITUPERATION
F.H.L.M.C.
What is the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
The 2001 event that prompted a major rearranging of the federal government.
Was was the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
This party chooses all of the committee chairmen
Who is the majority party
In the movie "Elf" this is the first rule in the code of elves
What is treat every day like Christmas
Hundreds of thousands of tourists arrive at Skagway, Alaska each year by this mode of travel.
What is by cruise ship.
Jews in Palestine began this rebellion against the oppressive pagan rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 168 MC
What was the Baccabean Rebellion