Across
- 1. a vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions
- 4. the Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president
- 5. the period of time during which Congress assembles and conducts business
- 6. Formalized public speaking in which participants prepare and present speeches on opposite sides of an issue to determine which side has the stronger arguments
- 8. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
- 12. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 14. a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
- 15. to change, alter
- 16. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
- 17. a two-chamber legislature
- 18. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 21. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
- 25. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 28. a proposed law
- 29. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
- 34. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
- 35. determines the rules for debate of each bill, including whether the bill may be amended (most powerful committee in the House)
- 36. whips are mainly responsible for counting heads and rounding up party members for votes and quorum calls, and they occasionally stand in for the majority or minority leaders in their absence
Down
- 2. the House's presiding officer, party leader, and the institution's administrative head, among other duties
- 3. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 7. selected official who is already in office
- 9. a legislative sub-organization in the United States Congress that handles a specific duty
- 10. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
- 11. 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
- 13. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
- 19. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest groups favor
- 20. rejection of a bill by the president
- 22. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
- 23. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 24. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
- 26. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
- 27. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 30. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 31. an official or executive ranking below and deputizing for a president
- 32. 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
- 33. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent