legislative branch

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  1. 3. 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
  2. 4. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the Senate or the House
  3. 6. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
  4. 12. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  5. 13. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  6. 16. argue about a subject, especially in a formal manner
  7. 18. The annual series of meetings of a Congress
  8. 19. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  9. 21. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  10. 23. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under a debate
  11. 26. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  12. 27. a vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions
  13. 29. motions placed on a bill in the Senate that alert party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
  14. 31. rejection of a bill by the president
  15. 32. a proposed law
  16. 33. to draw a districts boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  17. 34. an elected member of the majority party who assists the Speaker of the House and the majority leader to coordinate ideas on, and garner support for, proposed legislation
  18. 35. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
  19. 36. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility
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  1. 1. a two chamber legislature
  2. 2. the official chair of the Senate; usually the most senior member of the majority party
  3. 5. elected at the beginning of each new Congress by the entire House, traditionally a member of the majority party
  4. 7. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census
  5. 8. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  6. 9. a vice president's only constitutional duty is to preside over the Senate
  7. 10. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  8. 11. a permanent committee in congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  9. 14. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  10. 15. he second highest-ranking individual in the minority party
  11. 17. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  12. 20. a special committee of congress that has the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action
  13. 22. an event held before an election at which members of a political party select delegates to send to national party convention, at which they will also vote to nominate a candidate; a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
  14. 24. elected officials who are already in office
  15. 25. to change, alter
  16. 28. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
  17. 30. seek to influence a politician or public official on an issue