Across
- 3. authority shared by two or more committees
- 6. the people who work for house and senate committees
- 8. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 9. a permanent committee in congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
- 10. the minimum number of memebers who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 11. a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the House or Senate
- 13. a member of a lawmakers staff who runs the lawmakers office, supervises the schedule and gives advice
- 16. a population count
- 18. meeting
- 22. the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every cenus
- 24. the speakers top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority partys legislative program and to steer important bills through the house
- 26. a temporary joint committee set up when the house and the senate have passed different versions of the same bill
- 30. a motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and consider a bill from the calendar
- 31. the Senate member, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absense of the vice president
- 32. legislature a two-chamber legislature
Down
- 1. a member of a lawmakers personal staff who makes certain thath the lawmaker is well informed about proposed legislation
- 2. to draw a districts boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
- 4. the people who work directly for individual senators and representatives
- 5. a member of a lawmakers personal staff who handles requests for help from constituents
- 7. a procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate
- 12. a proposed law
- 14. to set up new district lines after reapportionment
- 15. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategoryof its standing committee's responsibility
- 17. as a whole; for example, statewide
- 19. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislative
- 20. a schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in Congress
- 21. a motion placed on a bill in the senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object
- 23. a system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular leadership of that committee
- 25. elected official who is already in office
- 27. a committee that consists of members from both the House and Senate, formed to act as a study group that reports back to the House and Senate on a topic or bill
- 28. a private meeting of party leaders to choose canadidates for office
- 29. a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent