chapter 5 vocab

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Across
  1. 3. authority shared by two or more committees
  2. 6. the people who work for house and senate committees
  3. 8. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  4. 9. a permanent committee in congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  5. 10. the minimum number of memebers who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  6. 11. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the House or Senate
  7. 13. a member of a lawmakers staff who runs the lawmakers office, supervises the schedule and gives advice
  8. 16. a population count
  9. 18. meeting
  10. 22. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every cenus
  11. 24. the speakers top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority partys legislative program and to steer important bills through the house
  12. 26. a temporary joint committee set up when the house and the senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  13. 30. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and consider a bill from the calendar
  14. 31. the Senate member, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absense of the vice president
  15. 32. legislature a two-chamber legislature
Down
  1. 1. a member of a lawmakers personal staff who makes certain thath the lawmaker is well informed about proposed legislation
  2. 2. to draw a districts boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  3. 4. the people who work directly for individual senators and representatives
  4. 5. a member of a lawmakers personal staff who handles requests for help from constituents
  5. 7. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  6. 12. a proposed law
  7. 14. to set up new district lines after reapportionment
  8. 15. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategoryof its standing committee's responsibility
  9. 17. as a whole; for example, statewide
  10. 19. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislative
  11. 20. a schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in Congress
  12. 21. a motion placed on a bill in the senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
  13. 23. a system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular leadership of that committee
  14. 25. elected official who is already in office
  15. 27. a committee that consists of members from both the House and Senate, formed to act as a study group that reports back to the House and Senate on a topic or bill
  16. 28. a private meeting of party leaders to choose canadidates for office
  17. 29. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent