Legisloative Branch Voc Puzzle

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Across
  1. 6. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
  2. 7. a two chamber legislature
  3. 10. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
  4. 11. a vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions
  5. 13. 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
  6. 14. a proposed law
  7. 20. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  8. 21. meeting
  9. 24. person in currently in office
  10. 25. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
  11. 26. the process of reassigning based on population
Down
  1. 1. a bill that sets up a federal program and specifies how much money may be appropriated for the program
  2. 2. to draw a district's boundaries to gain in advantage in elections
  3. 3. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
  4. 4. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
  5. 5. termcode-caucus-91-1970
  6. 8. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
  7. 9. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
  8. 10. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  9. 12. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar
  10. 15. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
  11. 16. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
  12. 17. groups of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy
  13. 18. a proposed law to authorize spending money
  14. 19. rejection of a bill by the president
  15. 22. direct contact made by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors
  16. 23. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action