Legislative Branch Voc Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. annual series of meetings with the Congress
  2. 4. elected at the beginning of each Congress by their party members
  3. 8. presides over the senate and defends the president
  4. 9. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  5. 10. a motion placed on bill in senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought they would object
  6. 11. the speakers top assistant. helps plan party's legislative program
  7. 13. legislative self organization in US Congress
  8. 17. redrawing district lines after reapportionment has been completed
  9. 18. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  10. 19. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of interest groups
  11. 20. elected official who is already in office
  12. 22. a method of defeating a bill in senate
  13. 23. procedure that allows each senator to speak only for an hour on a bill under debate
  14. 25. permanent committee in Congress that oversees bill that deals with certain issues
  15. 26. an event held before an election at which members of the political party select delegates to send to national party convention
  16. 27. a motion by all members of senate to set aside formal rules and consider bill from calendar
  17. 29. helps direct the flow of major legislation
  18. 31. temporary joint committee set up when House and Senate have passed different versions of same bill
  19. 32. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  20. 33. to change, alter
  21. 34. when voting groups try to change voting districts
Down
  1. 1. the redistribution of seats in the HOR based on changes in population
  2. 3. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  3. 5. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
  4. 6. a proposed law
  5. 7. temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report findings in House or Senate
  6. 12. made of two very different parts of the Congress
  7. 14. group within a standing committee that specializes in subcategory of its standing committees responsibilities
  8. 15. a process that involves formal discourse on a particular topic
  9. 16. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  10. 19. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support policies their interest groups favor
  11. 21. the senate member who stands in as president of the senate in absence of vice president
  12. 23. a vote of formal disapproval of a members actions
  13. 24. gives members permission to speak on house floor
  14. 28. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  15. 30. rejection of a bill by the president