Legislative Branch

1. a paid representative of an iterest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups.
6. a joint committee that is appointed to hold a conference on differing versions of a bill.
7. motions placed on a bill in by the senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object.
12. an official or executive ranking below and deputizing for a president.
14. a powerful committee n the House of representatives that creates a rule for each bill to be debated on the floor.
16. the senate member, elected by the senate, who stands in as president of the senate in the absence of the vice-president.
17. the action or process of inheriting a title or office.
18. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses.
20. elected official who is already in office.
22. to make a change in the details or provisions of a bill.
24. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete.
25. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature.
30. the speaker's top assistant.
31. to draw a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections.
34. a motion by all members of the senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar.
35. groups of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy.
36. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate.

2. a permanent committee that meets regularly.
3. a small legislative committee appointed for a special purpose.
4. direct contact made by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest groups favor.
5. presiding officer of the house.
8. closed meeting.
9. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action.
10. a group that can be either temporary or permanent and is made up of members of both the House and the Senate.
11. a proposed law.
13. congress meeting.
15. debate a bill.
19. a vote of formal disapproval of a member's action.
21. a committee composed of some members of a larger committee, board or other body and reporting to it.
23. a method of defeating a bill in the senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote.
26. process of reassigning representation based on population.
27. a proposed law to authorize spending money.
28. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill.
29. rejection of a bill be the president.
32. a person whom a member of congress has been elected to represent.
33. two house legislature.