Across
- 4. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete.
- 6. elected official who is already in office.
- 7. an event held before an election at which members of a political party select delegates to send to the national party convention, at which they will also vote to nominate a candidate; a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
- 12. a bill that approves government spending.
- 16. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote.
- 17. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action.
- 18. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate.
- 19. complete count of a population, including place of residence.
- 20. motions placed on a bill in the Senate that alert party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object.
- 23. the Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president.
- 26. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions.
- 27. 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.
- 30. a meeting of congress, last for one year.
- 32. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and to consider a bill from the calendar.
- 33. argue about (a subject), especially in a formal manner.
- 35. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature.
- 36. groups within the house and congress dedicated to a specific task.
- 37. A committee which determines the flow of legislation to the house. It can stop, hold back, or move forward bills.
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- 1. the action or process of inheriting a title or office.
- 2. a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues.
- 3. a two-chamber legislature.
- 5. a resolution passed in the same form by both houses.
- 8. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 9. a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill.
- 10. rejection of a bill by the president.
- 11. a proposed law.
- 13. a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups.
- 14. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent.
- 15. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill.
- 21. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections.
- 22. presides over the Senate but cannot vote except to break a tie.
- 24. the process of reassigning representation based on population after every decade.
- 25. The house's presiding officer and its most powerful leader.
- 28. to make direct contact by lobbyists to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest groups favor.
- 29. a group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government and policy.
- 31. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility.
- 34. to change, alter .