Legislative Branch Vocab Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. 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
  2. 4. A year long meeting of congress.
  3. 8. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
  4. 9. a proposed law
  5. 11. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
  6. 12. a meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention.
  7. 13. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
  8. 14. a vote of formal disapproval of a member’s actions
Down
  1. 1. the action or process of inheriting a title or office
  2. 2. A two chamber legislature.
  3. 5. elected official who is already in office
  4. 6. to draw a district’s boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
  5. 7. Allows members of Congress to focus on specific interests, provide knowledge and expertise to the chamber, tools of congressional parties.Speaker Of The House
  6. 10. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature