Across
- 5. vote of formal disapproval of member's actions
- 8. Leader- the speaker's top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party's legislature program and
- 9. a population court
- 10. a procedure that allows each senator to speaks only 1 hour on a bill under debate
- 13. the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 14. the elected official who is already office
- 15. a proposed law
- 16. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
- 17. to set up new district lines after reapportionment is compete
- 18. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 19. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
Down
- 1. a period of time during which a legislature meets to conduct business
- 2. to draw a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 3. Committee- a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deals with certain kinds of issues
- 4. committee- a committee of the house and the senate that usually acts as a study group and reports its findings back ot the house and the senate
- 6. a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
- 7. Legislature- a two-chamber legislature
- 11. a group within a standing committee that specializes in subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility
- 12. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
- 20. steer important bills through the House