Across
- 3. statewide
- 4. list bills that are up for consideration
- 7. speakers top assistant
- 8. limits debates by allowing each senator only one hour for speaking on a bill
- 10. committees set up when the senate and house have passed different versions of a bill
- 14. makes sure lawmakers are well informed
- 16. senate member who stands in for the president of the senate when the vice president cant
- 17. process of reassigning representation based on population
- 19. stand from one congress to the next
- 20. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legistlature
- 22. gives members of the majority committee with the longest uninterupted service leadership of that committee
- 25. closed meeting
- 26. people in the districts they represent
- 27. handle requests for help from a members constituents
Down
- 1. made up of two houses
- 2. study one specific issue and report findings to the senate or the house
- 5. a proposed law
- 6. called AA; runs lawmakers office
- 9. to extend a debate to prevent a bill from coming to a vote
- 11. members who were already in office
- 12. work for many house and senate committees
- 13. both parties represent on these committees
- 15. drawing district boundaries to give one party an electoral advantage
- 16. work directly for individual senators and representatives
- 18. setting up new district lines after reapportionment has been completed
- 21. population count
- 22. meetings
- 23. specializes in a subcategory of its standing committees responsibility
- 24. minimum number of members needed for official legisstlative action
- 25. vote of formal disapproval of a members actions