Legislative Branch Vocab Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  2. 7. a proposed law
  3. 9. a permanent committee in congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  4. 11. to change, alter
  5. 14. argue about a subject
  6. 18. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  7. 19. private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
  8. 20. elected official who is already in office
  9. 22. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the polices thier interest groups favor
  10. 24. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  11. 26. the Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the VP
  12. 27. a group within a standing committee that specializes
Down
  1. 1. a two-chamber legislature
  2. 2. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  3. 3. to draw a districts boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  4. 5. a temporary committee formed to study one specfic issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
  5. 6. a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
  6. 8. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  7. 10. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  8. 12. 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
  9. 13. a paid Representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  10. 15. a group of people who stare common goals and organize to influence government
  11. 16. the action or process of inheriting
  12. 17. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
  13. 19. a vote of formal disapproval
  14. 21. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
  15. 23. rejection of a bill by the president
  16. 25. session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill.