Across
- 4. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 5. constitutional duty is to preside over the Senate
- 8. a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly
- 9. a proposed law
- 10. process of reassigning representation based on population
- 13. a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body
- 17. an event held before an election at which members of a political party select delegates to send to the national party convention
- 19. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
- 21. 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
- 22. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
- 25. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
- 26. to change, alter
- 30. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 31. elected official who is already in office
- 32. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 33. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
- 34. review pending legislation and recommend action
- 35. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 36. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
Down
- 1. considers all bills reported from policy and fiscal committees and determines whether, and in what order, to schedule their consideration on the floor of the House
- 2. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 3. a situation where all parties involved are fully in agreement
- 6. political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives and is simultaneously the House's presiding officer
- 7. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 11. a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
- 12. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 14. a temporary replacement
- 15. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 16. Elected at the beginning of each Congress by members of their respective party conferences to represent them on the Senate floor
- 18. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
- 20. meeting
- 23. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
- 24. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
- 27. two house legislature
- 28. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest groups favor
- 29. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate