Across
- 6. a bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation
- 8. states would draw district boundaries to give one political party an electoral advantage
- 9. states would draw district boundaries to give one political party an electoral advantage
- 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. identify issues suitable for legislative review, gather and evaluate information, and recommend courses of action to the Senate.
- 17. 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
- 18. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 19. he or she does not have the same role or power as the Speaker of the House
- 20. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 22. Each state’s population determines the number of representatives it will have for the next 10 years
- 25. The annual series of meetings of a Congress
- 27. argue about (a subject), especially in a formal manner.
- 30. a temporary joint committee 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. a body which uses various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and/or policy
- 33. members who were already in office, won reelection
- 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. considers all bills reported from policy and fiscal committees and determines whether, and in what order, to schedule their consideration on the floor of the House
Down
- 1. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
- 2. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
- 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 committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 7. A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the vice president
- 12. comprised of two chambers, often described as the lower house and the upper house.
- 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 after reapportionment has been completed
- 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. elected at the beginning of each Congress by members of their respective party conferences to represent them on the Senate floor, the majority and minority leaders serve as spokesmen for their parties' positions on the issues
- 24. the presiding officer of the House and is charged with numerous duties and responsibilities by law and by the House rules
- 25. closed meeting, of the majority party chooses the Speaker of the House at the start of each session of Congress, and the entire House membership approves the choice of Speaker.
- 26. to change or modify (something) for the better
- 28. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
- 29. rejection of a bill by the president