Legislative Branch Vocab Puzzle

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Across
  1. 8. the committee in charge of directing the flow of major legislation
  2. 13. making changes to a bill
  3. 14. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
  4. 18. closed meeting
  5. 19. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
  6. 20. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
  7. 23. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  8. 25. rejection of a bill by the president
  9. 26. a piece of legislation that is introduced to Congress in hopes of becoming a law
  10. 27. a group in Congress that specializes in a certain category, and bills go to the groups that it pertains to
  11. 31. the time where legislators can make comments on the bill which has now been brought to the floor
  12. 32. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  13. 33. motions placed on a bill in the Senate that alert party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
  14. 34. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  15. 35. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
  16. 36. the Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president
Down
  1. 1. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  2. 2. elected official who is already in office
  3. 3. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  4. 4. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  5. 5. 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
  6. 6. direct contact made by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors
  7. 7. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
  8. 9. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  9. 10. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  10. 11. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  11. 12. meeting
  12. 15. a bill approving of government spending
  13. 16. presides over the Senate but cannot vote unless a tie
  14. 17. groups of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
  15. 21. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  16. 22. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  17. 24. a two-chamber legislature
  18. 28. the presiding officer of the House and most powerful leader
  19. 29. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  20. 30. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census