Bills to Law

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Across
  1. 2. Editing a bill so that it will pass on the floor
  2. 5. Member who heads a standing committee in a legislative body.
  3. 6. Members of the House and Senate picked by their parties to carry out party decisions and steer legislative action to meet party goals.
  4. 7. Presiding officer of the House of Representatives chose by and from the majority party in the House
  5. 8. An adjustment of opposing principles of systems by modifying some aspect of each. An agreement.
  6. 11. The only people who can propose a bill
  7. 15. Only needing 51% to pass a bill
  8. 18. Where members file past the sergeant at arms to submit their vote
Down
  1. 1. Assistant to Floor Leaders. Responsible for monitoring and marshaling votes.
  2. 3. The member of the United States Senate to preside in the absence of the President of the Senate
  3. 4. A temporary joint committee created to reconcile any differences between the two versions a bill between the House and the Senate
  4. 7. Permanent committees in legislative bodies to which bills in a specific subject matter area are referred.
  5. 9. Killing a bill in committee
  6. 10. When a bill dies because Congress is not in session and it has not been acted on.
  7. 12. Votes done electronically
  8. 13. A tactic used to try to defeat a bill in the legislative body by preventing a final vote.
  9. 14. The second most senior member of a congressional state of legislative committee
  10. 16. A closed meeting of a party's House or Senate members. Aka party conference
  11. 17. Getting 60% of the Senate to end a debate