Legislative crossword
Across
- 3. process aimed at bringing debate to a quick end
- 7. The person who is responsible for overseeing the committee's roles, assigning work, acting as its spokesperson
- 8. where an individual extends debate, allowing a lone member to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a given proposal
- 9. voluntary association that seeks to publicly promote and create advantages for its cause
- 10. people who vote for you or in your district
- 13. 10 days before end of session- effect a veto.
- 14. John Boehner
- 15. dividing up votes on proportion.
- 17. A leader in the house or senate whose party does not control it.
- 18. A legal system with two branches or systems
- 19. Some one who's job is to influence the voting decision of members of the House and Senate.
Down
- 1. a want to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives.
- 2. a committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicameral legislature.
- 4. a meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement.
- 5. an idiom for a political party or social movement's canonagenda, as well as specific ideological elements specific to the organization's partisanship.
- 6. bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from a Committee and usually without cooperation of the leadership
- 11. The process by which the president can disregard a bill.
- 12. a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating geographic boundaries to create partisan or incumbent-protected districts.
- 14. term of Congress
- 16. laws limiting how long a person may remain in office