Across
- 2. two house legislature
- 7. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups
- 9. rejection of a bill by the president
- 14. schedules legislation to be considered on the House floor; organizes daily, weekly, and yearly legislative plans
- 15. an official or executive ranking below and deputizing for a president.
- 16. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 17. when a political group tries to change a voting district to create a result that helps them or hurts the group who is against them.
- 18. redistribution of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives based on changes in population.
- 21. review pending legislation
- 25. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest groups favor
- 27. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
- 31. to change, alter
- 32. a body which uses various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and/or policy.
- 33. a situation in which no member present objects to a proposal.
- 34. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 35. a proposed law
- 36. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility
Down
- 1. gives power to the government to withdraw funds from the Consolidated Fund of India for meeting the expenditure during the financial year.
- 3. a person who holds a particular office or position
- 4. 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.
- 5. a high-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president.
- 6. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate
- 8. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 10. a person who authorizes another to act in his or her behalf, as a voter in a district represented by an elected official.
- 11. an official reprimand
- 12. the way we change the districts that determine who represents us.
- 13. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill
- 19. 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
- 20. a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward.
- 22. the order in which government officials replace the president of the United States if the president leaves office before an elected successor is inaugurated.
- 23. annual series of meetings that congress makes
- 24. a motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
- 26. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses
- 28. a group of members of the United States Congress that meets to pursue common legislative objectives.
- 29. of the House the House's presiding officer, party leader, and the institution's administrative head, among other duties.
- 30. the minimum number of people needed to hold meetings or make decisions during certain company meetings