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