civics

3. people who vote for you or in your district
4. limits laws limiting how long a person may remain in office
5. people who act on behalf of interest groups
6. having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body
9. an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature.
10. rule says that the senior member of the committee of the power party is the committee chair; can use parliamentary power to get rid of a bill if he/she doesn't like it
11. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible
12. committee members of the house and members of the senate iron out the bills
14. unite two bills; make them into one
16. attachment to the bill that’s unrelated to the bill
18. committee where the work really happens; holds hearings and invites people to testify who will be in favor or opposition of the bill
19. to reject a bill into becoming a law

1. a member of a legislature who makes a long speech and basically talks a bill to death
2. an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shoes a biased, emotional allegiance
7. up session when you change or revise a bill
8. veto bill automatically becomes a law if the president does not sign the bill within 10 days of end of session
10. of the house John Boehner; gets the bill and assigns it to the committee; also decides who sits on which committee
13. process in which a filibuster is broken
15. dividing up votes on proportion
17. if you contribute enough money, you will get facetime with the congress person and they will listen to what you have to say