Across
- 2. annual series of meetings with the Congress
- 4. elected at the beginning of each Congress by their party members
- 8. presides over the senate and defends the president
- 9. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 10. a motion placed on bill in senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought they would object
- 11. the speakers top assistant. helps plan party's legislative program
- 13. legislative self organization in US Congress
- 17. redrawing district lines after reapportionment has been completed
- 18. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 19. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of interest groups
- 20. elected official who is already in office
- 22. a method of defeating a bill in senate
- 23. procedure that allows each senator to speak only for an hour on a bill under debate
- 25. permanent committee in Congress that oversees bill that deals with certain issues
- 26. an event held before an election at which members of the political party select delegates to send to national party convention
- 27. a motion by all members of senate to set aside formal rules and consider bill from calendar
- 29. helps direct the flow of major legislation
- 31. temporary joint committee set up when House and Senate have passed different versions of same bill
- 32. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 33. to change, alter
- 34. when voting groups try to change voting districts
Down
- 1. the redistribution of seats in the HOR based on changes in population
- 3. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
- 5. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
- 6. a proposed law
- 7. temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report findings in House or Senate
- 12. made of two very different parts of the Congress
- 14. group within a standing committee that specializes in subcategory of its standing committees responsibilities
- 15. a process that involves formal discourse on a particular topic
- 16. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 19. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support policies their interest groups favor
- 21. the senate member who stands in as president of the senate in absence of vice president
- 23. a vote of formal disapproval of a members actions
- 24. gives members permission to speak on house floor
- 28. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
- 30. rejection of a bill by the president