AP US Government: Congress

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  1. 4. Committee Made up of members of both the House and Senate
  2. 5. Solving problems for constituents
  3. 7. Committee Permanent congressional committee that specializes in a particular policy area
  4. 9. Years of consecutive service on a particular congressional committee
  5. 13. redistribution of representatives among the states
  6. 15. Committee Created for a specific purpose and disbanded after it is fulfilled
  7. 17. Gerrymandering Drawing of a legislative district to maximize the chance that a minority candidate will win election
  8. 18. Legislator whose primary responsibility is to represent the majority view of his or her constituents
  9. 19. Current officeholder
  10. 20. Committee Created to work out differences between the House and Senate's versions' of a specific piece of legislation
  11. 21. President's disapproval of a bill
  12. 22. of the House Presiding office of the House of Representatives
Down
  1. 1. Representative who is obligated to consider the views of constituents
  2. 2. Representation Belief that constituents are most effectively represented by legislators
  3. 3. People who live and vote in a gov't official's district and/or state
  4. 6. Federal funds appropriated by congress for use on local projects
  5. 8. Redrawing a congressional district to intentionally benefit one political party
  6. 10. formal charging of a gov't official
  7. 11. Leader Head of the majority party in the Senate
  8. 12. Delaying tactic, used in the Senate
  9. 14. System System of gov't in which the chief executive is the leader whose party holds the most seats in the legislature
  10. 16. Process of reviewing the operations of an agency to determine whether it is carrying out policies as congress intended
  11. 20. Mechanism by which a filibuster is cut off in the Senate