Unit 2 terms crossword
Across
- 2. people in the districs they represent.
- 4. members who were already in office, won reelection.
- 5. study a specific issue and report their findings to
- 12. made up of 2 houses; Senete and House of Representatives.
- 14. extend debate by allowing each senator only 1hr. for speaking on a bill, but 60 senators must vote for cloture.
- 15. temporary of permanent, made up of both house and senete
- 16. vote of formal disapproval of a members actions.
- 19. continue from one congress to the next.
Down
- 1. unwritten rule guided the selection of chairs persons in the past, majority member with longest uninterupted service on a committee is appointed leader
- 3. temprary committee that is set up when house and senete have passed diffrent versions of a bill
- 6. population count, done every 10yrs.
- 7. closed meeting.
- 8. speaker's top assistant.
- 9. minimum # of members needed for offical legislation action.
- 10. "for time being"
- 11. drawing district boundries to give one party an electoral advantage.
- 13. process of setting up new district lines after reapportionment has been completed.
- 17. state's population determines the # of Representatives it will have for the next 10yrs.
- 18. serve asassistant floor leaders in the house.