Across
- 2. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 5. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 6. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 8. direct the flow of major legislation,set the rules for how long the bill can be debated and revised,settles disputes among other House committees.
- 10. 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
- 15. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
- 19. The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer and its most powerful leader.
- 23. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government
- 24. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 25. president of senate; not an actual senator
- 27. a proposed law
- 28. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
- 30. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
- 31. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 33. Meeting with elected officials to persuade them to make certain laws or policies
Down
- 1. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
- 3. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
- 4. 2 sessions make up one term
- 7. house members are assigned to a committee dedicated to a certain subject; they review bills
- 9. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
- 11. 2-chamber legislature
- 12. rejection of a bill by the president determines whether a bill will become law by signing it
- 13. a proposed law to authorize spending money
- 14. temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 16. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
- 17. paid representatives of interest groups. Professional lobbyists contact government officials on behalf of the interest groups that are their clients
- 18. closed meeting, of the majority party chooses the Speaker of the House at the start of each session of Congress
- 20. he Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president
- 21. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
- 22. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 26. to make changes to a bill
- 29. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
- 32. elected official who is already in office