Legislative Process
Across
- 3. the number of members that the rules require to be present to conduct official business in the Texas Senate and House, 2/3 of the total membership is necessary to take most floor actions.
- 6. A process in which committee members offer changes to a bill before it goes to the floor in either house for a vote
- 7. Rules Committee Determines the rules for debate of each bill, including whether the bill may be amended. This is the most powerful committee in the House
- 9. a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- 10. committee a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 12. a motion to force a bill to the house floor that has been bottled up in committee
- 15. a formal objection that rules of procedure are not being followed on the house floor. Successfully raising a point of order can result in the post-ponement or defeat of a bill
- 17. a proposed law
- 19. The legislators who are responsible for getting legislation passed or defeated. their job is to negotiate , bargain, and compromise because they are in the center of political communication
Down
- 1. to kill a bill in standing committee usually by setting it aside without taking any action at all
- 2. A group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility
- 4. oversight The legislative function of monitoring administration to make sure they are administering the laws according to legislative intent
- 5. A senate rule that allows a senator to demand a 48 hour advance notification before a standing committee holds hearings on a particular bill
- 8. the entire senate or house acting as a whole to debate, amend, vote on, enact, pass, or defeat proposed legislation
- 11. an oral vote cast by lawmakers that is not recorded in the official record
- 13. votes in which the names of those who cast the vote are recorded in the house journal
- 14. The constitutional power of the president to send a bill back to Congress with reasons for rejecting it. A two-thirds vote in each house can override a veto.
- 16. list of bills reported out of a committee and ready for consideration by the house or senate
- 18. a rule for limiting or ending debate in the Senate