Legislative Branch Vocabulary Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. rejection of a bill by the president
  2. 5. to argue about a subject (bill) in a formal matter
  3. 6. elected official who is already in office
  4. 8. an annual set of meeting in Congress that usually has two sessions beginning on the 3rd of January on every odd-ending year
  5. 10. the House's presiding officer, party leader, and the institution's administrative head
  6. 13. a proposed law
  7. 15. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
  8. 19. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  9. 20. a vote of formal approval of a member's actions
  10. 21. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  11. 23. to set up new district lines after appointment is complete
  12. 24. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  13. 26. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
  14. 28. the Speaker's top assistant whose job is to help plan the minority party's legislative program and to steer important bills through the House
  15. 31. a person whom a member or Congress has been elected to represent
  16. 32. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  17. 34. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  18. 35. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  19. 36. the second ranking members of each party's leadership; main function is to gather up votes of their respective parties on major issues
Down
  1. 1. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
  2. 2. an essential part of the legislative branch that monitors ongoing governmental operations
  3. 4. to change, alter
  4. 7. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
  5. 9. considers all bills reported and determines which to debate on in the floor of the House
  6. 11. a two-chamber legislative
  7. 12. the Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence if the vice president
  8. 14. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  9. 16. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  10. 17. a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
  11. 18. a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
  12. 22. to draw a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  13. 25. to make direct contact by lobbyist to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest groups favor
  14. 27. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
  15. 29. the president of the Senate
  16. 30. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  17. 33. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action