Across
- 3. the House's presiding officer
- 4. a motion by all members present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
- 8. argue about a subject in a formal manner
- 12. Members of Congress are assigned to committees to investigate the merits and problems with suggested bills
- 16. a draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion
- 17. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
- 18. rejection of a bill by the president
- 20. elected official who is already in office
- 22. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
- 24. signal to the leaders that there is not yet agreement
- 26. any number of actions taken by a senator or group of senators to prevent a bill from coming to a final vote
- 27. specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
- 29. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
- 30. inheriting a position
- 31. a series of meetings in congress
Down
- 1. a temporary committee that is set up when the House and Senate have passed different versions of a bill
- 2. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 3. permanent groups to oversee bills that dealt with certain kinds of issues
- 5. 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
- 6. The assistant majority leader and assistant minority leader of the United States Senate
- 7. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 9. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 10. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
- 11. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest groups favor
- 13. study one specific issue and report their findings to the Senate or the House
- 14. a two-chamber legislature
- 15. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 19. to change, alter
- 21. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
- 23. any number of actions taken by a senator or group of senators to prevent a bill from coming to a final vote
- 25. an event held before an election at which members of a political party select delegates to send to the national party convention, at which they will also vote to nominate a candidate; a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
- 28. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions