Legislative Branch Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  2. 5. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  3. 6. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  4. 8. direct the flow of major legislation,set the rules for how long the bill can be debated and revised,settles disputes among other House committees.
  5. 10. 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. 15. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
  7. 19. The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer and its most powerful leader.
  8. 23. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government
  9. 24. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  10. 25. president of senate; not an actual senator
  11. 27. a proposed law
  12. 28. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
  13. 30. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  14. 31. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  15. 33. Meeting with elected officials to persuade them to make certain laws or policies
Down
  1. 1. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  2. 3. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
  3. 4. 2 sessions make up one term
  4. 7. house members are assigned to a committee dedicated to a certain subject; they review bills
  5. 9. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  6. 11. 2-chamber legislature
  7. 12. rejection of a bill by the president determines whether a bill will become law by signing it
  8. 13. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  9. 14. temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  10. 16. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
  11. 17. paid representatives of interest groups. Professional lobbyists contact government officials on behalf of the interest groups that are their clients
  12. 18. closed meeting, of the majority party chooses the Speaker of the House at the start of each session of Congress
  13. 20. he Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president
  14. 21. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
  15. 22. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  16. 26. to make changes to a bill
  17. 29. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
  18. 32. elected official who is already in office