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The Legislature
Puzzle 02
For Mr. Rose's Government Class
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2. The schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in Congress is called the __________.
5. A __________ committee is a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill.
6. The main assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature is the majority or minority __________.
8. A __________ committee is a committee of the House and the Senate that usually acts as a study group and reports its findings back to the House and the Senate.
10. A __________ committee is a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the Senate or the House.
11. The __________ staff is the group who work directly for individual senators and representatives.
14. The procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate is called __________.
15. A group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility is called a __________.
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1. A __________ is a member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who handles requests for help from constituents.
3. The __________ staff are the people who work for House and Senate committees.
4. The __________ system is a system that gives the members of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee.
7. A __________ committee is a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues.
9. The method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote is called __________.
12. The president pro __________ is the Senate member who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president.
13. The minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action is called a __________.
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