Across
- 2. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
- 5. to review most bills after they come from the full committee and before they go to the full chamber for consideration
- 10. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
- 13. annual series of meetings in Congress
- 15. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
- 16. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 17. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
- 21. a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward
- 24. a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
- 27. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 28. two house legislature
- 29. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
- 33. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 34. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
- 35. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
- 36. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
Down
- 1. an official or executive ranking below and deputizing for a president
- 3. to investigate the suggested bills,before sending it to the full House or Senate for debate and a vote
- 4. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 6. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 7. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 8. an event held before an election at which members of a political party select delegates to send to the national party convention, a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
- 9. political advocacy efforts carried out by the general public and members of interest groups, sometimes under the guidance of their professional lobbyists
- 11. a high-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president.
- 12. rejection of a bill by the president
- 14. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
- 18. to change, alter
- 19. leaders serve as spokesmen for their parties' positions on the issues.
- 20. elected official who is already in office
- 22. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 23. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
- 25. leader of the H.O.R.
- 26. a group of people that seeks to influence public policy on the basis of a particular common interest or concern
- 30. 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
- 31. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 32. a proposed law