Legislative Branch

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Across
  1. 3. the senate member, elected by the senate in the absence of the Vice President
  2. 5. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  3. 10. is responsible for administering the oath of office to the members of the US House of Representatives.
  4. 11. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its finding to the house or senate
  5. 12. a motion by all members of the senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
  6. 18. direct contact made by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors
  7. 21. groups of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
  8. 22. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  9. 24. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility
  10. 25. to draw a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  11. 28. a permanent committee in congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  12. 31. A two-chamber legislature
  13. 32. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  14. 33. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
  15. 34. a vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions
Down
  1. 1. a person whom a member of congress has been elected to represent
  2. 2. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  3. 4. a closed meeting
  4. 6. session Meeting
  5. 7. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  6. 8. motions placed on a bill in the senate that alert party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
  7. 9. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
  8. 13. legislative sub organization in the US congress that handles a specific duty.
  9. 14. elected official who is already in office
  10. 15. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
  11. 16. a person to succeed to the presidency to the president upon the death or resignation of a president
  12. 17. a temporary joint committee set up when the house and the senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  13. 19. the speakers top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party's legislative program and to steer important bills through the house.
  14. 20. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  15. 23. a proposed law
  16. 26. rejection of a bill by the president
  17. 27. congress may do this to the proposed tax bill. to change for the better; improve; to amend one's ways
  18. 29. a method of defeating a bill in the senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  19. 30. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill