Across
- 6. is deaking with individual people or places
- 8. to draw a districts boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 9. a vote of formal disapproval of a members actions
- 10. a permanent committee in congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
- 11. a method of defeating a bill in the senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 13. they provide valuable informational services to congress by investigating and reporting about specialized subjects
- 17. the speakers top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party's legislative program and to steer important bills through the house
- 18. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 19. they may recognize members and put questions to a vote
- 20. a person whom a member of congress has been elected to represent
- 22. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
- 25. the annual series of meetings of a congress is called a
- 27. argue about a subject
- 30. a temporary joint committe set up when the house and the senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 31. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility
- 32. is a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government
- 33. elected official who is already in office
- 34. a motion by all members of the senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
- 35. is important because it is a "traffic officer", helping direct the flow of major legislation
Down
- 1. they are paid representatives of interest groups
- 2. a temprary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the house or senate
- 3. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 4. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
- 5. a session at which a committe listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 7. the senate members, elected by the senate, who stands in as president of the senate in the absence of the vice president
- 12. a two-chamber legislature
- 14. seek to influence on an issue
- 15. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
- 16. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 21. motions placed on a bill in the senate that alert party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
- 23. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
- 24. is the presiding officer and its most powerful leader
- 25. termcode-caucus-91-1970
- 26. termcode-29-1917
- 28. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
- 29. the power of the president to refuse to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevent its enactment into law