Legislative Branch

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Across
  1. 6. two house legislature
  2. 8. new district lines after reapportionment
  3. 10. assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
  4. 12. presiding officer of the House of Representatives
  5. 13. private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
  6. 14. paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials
  7. 15. discussing a proposition on the floor of the House and Senate
  8. 17. resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  9. 22. elected official who is already in office
  10. 23. resolution to end filibuster by taking a vote
  11. 26. groups a group of people that organize to influence government and policy
  12. 28. to "talk a bill to death"
  13. 31. a motion by all Senate members who are present to consider a bill from the calendar
  14. 32. drawing a district's boundaries to gain advantage in elections
  15. 35. action or process of inheriting a title or office
  16. 36. a "traffic officer"
Down
  1. 1. head of the Senate and first in line if president dies or unable to perform his/her duties
  2. 2. to change, alter
  3. 3. reassigning representation after every census
  4. 4. head of the majority party in the Senate or House
  5. 5. members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  6. 7. sub-organization that handles a specific duty
  7. 9. temporary committee to study one specific issue
  8. 11. motion placed in the Senate to alert leaders they would object on a bill
  9. 16. proposed law to authorize spending money
  10. 18. a vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions
  11. 19. a group that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibilities
  12. 20. series of annual congressional meetings
  13. 21. a session where a committee listens to testimony from people interested in a bill
  14. 24. make direct contact to persuade government officials to support their interest groups policies
  15. 25. permanent groups that oversee bills with certain kinds of issues
  16. 27. temporary joint committee set up when the House and Senate passed different versions of the same bill
  17. 29. stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president
  18. 30. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  19. 33. a proposed law
  20. 34. president rejects a bill