chapter 5 vocab

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Across
  1. 2. member of lawmakers staff who makes certain that the lawmakers is well informed.
  2. 4. a proposed law
  3. 6. the people who work for house and senate committees.
  4. 7. consent a motion by all members of the senate who are present to set aside formal rules.
  5. 9. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
  6. 10. the senate member, elected by the senate, who stands in as president of the senate.
  7. 12. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate.
  8. 15. the people who work directly for individual senators and representatives.
  9. 18. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its finding to the house or senate
  10. 22. a member of a lawmakers staff who handles request for help.
  11. 23. a group within a standing committee.
  12. 28. a system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee
  13. 30. a person whom a member of congress has been elected to repr
  14. 31. a committee that consists of members from both house and the senate, formed to act as a study group.
  15. 32. the process of reassigning representation based on popu
Down
  1. 1. a method of defeating a bill in the senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  2. 3. a temporary joint committee set up when the house and senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  3. 5. a member of a lawmaker personal staff.
  4. 8. the speaker's top assistant
  5. 11. as a whole; for example, statewide
  6. 13. to draw a district's boundaries to gain election advantage
  7. 14. authority shared by two or more committees
  8. 16. a meeting
  9. 17. a vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions
  10. 19. a schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in congress
  11. 20. a motion placed on a bill in the senate.
  12. 21. a permanent committee in congress.
  13. 24. a two-chamber legislature.
  14. 25. elected official who is already in office
  15. 26. a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
  16. 27. a population count
  17. 29. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action