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