Legislative Branch

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Across
  1. 2. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  2. 5. to review most bills after they come from the full committee and before they go to the full chamber for consideration
  3. 10. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
  4. 13. annual series of meetings in Congress
  5. 15. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  6. 16. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  7. 17. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
  8. 21. a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward
  9. 24. a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
  10. 27. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  11. 28. two house legislature
  12. 29. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
  13. 33. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  14. 34. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  15. 35. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  16. 36. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
Down
  1. 1. an official or executive ranking below and deputizing for a president
  2. 3. to investigate the suggested bills,before sending it to the full House or Senate for debate and a vote
  3. 4. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  4. 6. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  5. 7. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  6. 8. an event held before an election at which members of a political party select delegates to send to the national party convention, a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
  7. 9. political advocacy efforts carried out by the general public and members of interest groups, sometimes under the guidance of their professional lobbyists
  8. 11. a high-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president.
  9. 12. rejection of a bill by the president
  10. 14. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
  11. 18. to change, alter
  12. 19. leaders serve as spokesmen for their parties' positions on the issues.
  13. 20. elected official who is already in office
  14. 22. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  15. 23. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  16. 25. leader of the H.O.R.
  17. 26. a group of people that seeks to influence public policy on the basis of a particular common interest or concern
  18. 30. the Speaker’s top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party’s legislative program and to steer important bills through the House
  19. 31. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  20. 32. a proposed law