Legislative Process

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Across
  1. 5. Combine 2 different bills
  2. 7. limits Laws stating how long a person can be in office
  3. 10. Dividing votes on proportion
  4. 13. To reject a bill
  5. 14. of senate A title often given to the presiding officer of a senate, and is the speaker of other assemblies.
  6. 16. Closure of a debate
  7. 17. session The time when changes are added to the bill
Down
  1. 1. committees A permanent committee
  2. 2. Defining boundaries
  3. 3. chair The presiding officer of an assembly, meeting, committee, or board.
  4. 4. The process of delaying something
  5. 6. People who vote for you or in your district
  6. 8. committee A committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicameral legislature
  7. 9. Persuades people for their boss
  8. 11. veto An indirect veto done by the President
  9. 12. of the house Decides who sits in each committee
  10. 15. petition Bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee
  11. 18. caucus A meeting of the local members of a political party especially to select delegates to a convention or register preferences for candidates running for office.