All About Congress!

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Across
  1. 4. How long is one House term?
  2. 5. more than half
  3. 7. less than half
  4. 8. This mechanism stops the filibuster
  5. 12. DC's delegate to the House of Representatives, and the namesake of a green on the Georgetown Law campus
  6. 14. How long is one Senate term?
  7. 15. The larger chamber of Congress
  8. 18. What the people in a congressmember's district are called
  9. 20. Number of Representatives the state with the most Representatives currently has
  10. 21. Current majority party
  11. 23. the branch of government in which Congress sits
  12. 24. _____ of Representatives
  13. 26. President ___ ______, currently, Sen. Chuck Grassley
Down
  1. 1. What document gives Congress its powers?
  2. 2. the minimum number of members that must be present at votes to make the proceedings valid.
  3. 3. The number of states in the United States
  4. 6. Comprised of both the House and the Senate
  5. 9. The number of Senators allocated to each state
  6. 10. Current minority party
  7. 11. acting on behalf of a group or industry, these individuals seek to convince congressmembers to vote a particular way
  8. 13. Lowest number of Representatives a given state can have
  9. 16. a committee can conduct a ________ to edit proposed legislation
  10. 17. a proposal to change a portion of proposed legislation
  11. 19. a measure introduced in either house of Congress
  12. 22. Tool employed by Senators to stall progress on legislation
  13. 25. currently, Rep. Mike Johnson