Across
- 6. Uses to pass a law
- 8. States redraw districts to party's favor
- 9. Is a vote of formal disapproval of a member's action
- 10. Stand or continue to one legislative session to the next
- 11. Talk the bill to death
- 13. Perform most legislative work
- 17. Is the leader of his political party on the floor in the house
- 18. a legislative grant of money to pay for a government program
- 19. In the line to succession to presidency
- 20. Potential voters or donors
- 22. Process of state population determining the number of representatives
- 25. Sessions between changes who serves on congress
- 27. argue about a bill
- 30. temporary committee when House and Senate pass different versions of a bill
- 31. Special in a subcategory of its standing committees responsibilities
- 32. group of people that seek in influence public policy on their common interests
- 33. Members who are already in office win reelection
- 34. Both parties agreed and no one objects
- 35. Plays key role in House law making process
Down
- 1. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest group
- 2. study one specific issue and report findings to the House or Senate
- 3. Minimum number of members needed for official legislative action
- 4. process of inheriting a title
- 5. When a committee decides to act on a bill
- 7. Senate elects leader to take over the president absence
- 12. Made of two different parts of congress
- 14. direct contact made by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors
- 15. The Process of redrawing district lines
- 16. Can end filibuster with 60 votes in Senate
- 21. Not yet an agreement
- 23. Majority or minority party spokemen leaders
- 24. The entire house has to approve of speaker
- 25. closed meeting
- 26. to change or modify
- 28. used to correct an error in a earlier law
- 29. How president can reject a bill