Across
- 1. is an essential part in the legislative process that considers the bill
- 3. a document that is proposed to congress that could turn into a law
- 4. when senators use unlimited debate to speak continuously and keeping other senators to vote on the bill
- 6. are campaigns for policies that influence people to join them
- 10. is a spending bill that authorizes the government to fund something
- 12. minimum number of members present to do business
- 14. when a senator objects to unanimous consent and slows down the process
- 16. is when all members agree to set aside formal rules to consider the bill from the calendar
- 17. is a type of legislature divided congress into two houses of the senate and the house of representations
- 21. is the most powerful leader chosen by the majority party at the start of each congressional session
- 26. the action of either packing or cracking voters into district election maps to serve an advantage for one party over the other
- 27. when the president decides not to make a bill a law and send the bill back to the house
- 29. members who were already in office elected again
- 30. when at least 60 senators vote to end a filibuster
- 31. when legislators take opportunities to make comments about a bill.
- 32. is a vote to express disapproval of a members actions
- 33. when a committee rewrites a bill
- 34. the act of persuading elected officials to make a certain law or policy
- 35. takes the role of the vice president when they are absent
Down
- 2. professionals at persuading officials to make a certain law or policy that are representatives of interest groups
- 5. when the house and senate pass a bill that was corrected in the conference committee
- 7. specialize in subcategories of the standing committees
- 8. a closed meeting where the house chooses and approves of the majority leader
- 9. when congress sets up groups to oversee bills that deal with certain issues
- 11. decides when a bill is considered in legislature
- 13. each congressional term has one of these a year
- 15. are temporary committees that study one specific category a share their findings with the house or senate
- 18. is an assistant of the house leaders
- 19. plan the party's legislative program
- 20. when the committee listens to testimony before acting on a bill
- 21. when a person inherits office after a death or resignation of the previous person in office
- 22. the process of reassigning the number of the states representatives after a census
- 23. drawing new district lines after the census
- 24. the senate's president who does not have the same power as the speaker of the house
- 25. a person who is elected to represent a member of congress to represent
- 28. temporary committees that resolve the the differences between two versions of a bill