Across
- 3. To draw a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 4. A private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
- 5. An assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
- 7. A person a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 11. a period of time during which a legislature meets to conduct business
- 13. A method of defeating a bill in which a senator talks until a majority either abandons the bill or agrees to modify it
- 14. A vote of formal disapproval of a member's actions
- 15. two-chamber legislature
- 17. The process of reassigning representation based on population, comes after every census
Down
- 1. The Speaker's top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party's legislative program and to steer important Bills through the House
- 2. The Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the Vice President
- 4. A population count
- 6. To set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete
- 7. A schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in Congress
- 8. As a whole; for example, statewide
- 9. Elected official that is already in office
- 10. The minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 12. A proposed law
- 16. A procedure that allows each senator to speak only 1 hour on a bill that is under debate