Legislative Branch

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Across
  1. 4. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  2. 5. constitutional duty is to preside over the Senate
  3. 8. a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly
  4. 9. a proposed law
  5. 10. process of reassigning representation based on population
  6. 13. a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body
  7. 17. an event held before an election at which members of a political party select delegates to send to the national party convention
  8. 19. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  9. 21. 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
  10. 22. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
  11. 25. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  12. 26. to change, alter
  13. 30. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  14. 31. elected official who is already in office
  15. 32. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  16. 33. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  17. 34. review pending legislation and recommend action
  18. 35. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  19. 36. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
Down
  1. 1. considers all bills reported from policy and fiscal committees and determines whether, and in what order, to schedule their consideration on the floor of the House
  2. 2. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  3. 3. a situation where all parties involved are fully in agreement
  4. 6. political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives and is simultaneously the House's presiding officer
  5. 7. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  6. 11. a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
  7. 12. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  8. 14. a temporary replacement
  9. 15. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  10. 16. Elected at the beginning of each Congress by members of their respective party conferences to represent them on the Senate floor
  11. 18. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  12. 20. meeting
  13. 23. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
  14. 24. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
  15. 27. two house legislature
  16. 28. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest groups favor
  17. 29. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate