The Senate and the House

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Across
  1. 3. Republicans sit on this side of the House and Senate
  2. 5. limits floor debate to 30 hours to end filibuster
  3. 9. The "traffic officer" of the house that directs the flow of major legislation
  4. 11. Who serves as the President of the Senate?
  5. 13. Votes for leadership positions divided by this, majority controls the flow of bills
Down
  1. 1. stalling tactic used to try to force the Senate to drop a bill
  2. 2. Who is the most powerful person in the House of Reps?
  3. 4. What the members of the house break into because there are so many members and thousands or proposed laws
  4. 6. elected to run the Senate when the VP is absent
  5. 7. The people in the districts Congressmen represent
  6. 8. minimum number of members needed for official legislative action
  7. 9. place where bills are placed to be read aloud and sent to committee
  8. 10. Members of the House and Senate picked by their parties to steer law making and meet goals of their party
  9. 12. Democrats sit on this side of the House and Senate