Legislative brands (T)

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Across
  1. 6. -it determines the number of representatives it will have for the next 10 years.
  2. 7. -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.
  3. 10. -a provision the congress wrote into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of executive agencies.
  4. 12. -a proposed law
  5. 14. -a legislative sub-organization in the US congress that handles a specific duty.
  6. 17. -the action or process of inheriting a title or office.
  7. 18. -a temporary committee that is set up when the house and senate have passed different versions of a bill.
  8. 19. -the process of redrawing district lines after reapportionment has been completed.
  9. 22. -seek to influence
  10. 23. -made of two very different parts of the house.
  11. 25. -close meeting.
  12. 27. -motions placed on a bill in the senate that alert party members that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object.
  13. 28. -members who were already in office, won reelection.
  14. 29. -they stand, or continue, from one legislative session to the next.
  15. 30. -make better/improvement
  16. 31. -the presiding officer and its most powerful leader.
  17. 32. -extremely important because it is a "traffic officer," helping direct the flow of major legislation.
  18. 33. -a person who takes part in an organized attempts to influence legislators.
  19. 35. -an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislative.
Down
  1. 1. -a person whom a member of congress has been elected to represent.
  2. 2. -any number of actions taken by a senator or group of senators to prevent a bill from coming to a final vote.
  3. 3. -states would draw district boundaries to give one political party an electoral advantage.
  4. 4. -two meetings.
  5. 5. -an officer next in rank to a president.
  6. 8. -a motion by all members present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar.
  7. 9. -a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility.
  8. 11. -a vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions.
  9. 13. -a community within a larger organization with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge.
  10. 15. -like a bill, can be used to pass a law.
  11. 16. -stands in as president of the senate in the absence of the vice president. "pro tem",presides.
  12. 20. -discussion
  13. 21. -study one specific issue and report their findings to the senate or the house.
  14. 24. -senators can end a filibuster by voting for this. (allows senator to speak only one hour to a bill under debate.)
  15. 26. -also known as supply bill or spending bill.
  16. 27. -a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill.
  17. 34. -is the minimum number of members needed for official legislative action.