Across
- 1. Race can't be the ___________ factor in redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts, unless there is a compelling reason for this in the district.
- 4. Each legislative _______ must have roughly the same number of people, so that there will be "one person, one vote"
- 6. Re-drawing the geographic boundaries of legislative districts
- 7. The number of votes needed to end a filibuster
- 8. Bills introduced in either house are first sent to this kind of committee for hearings, markups, amendment, etc.
- 11. The person who presides over a committee or subcommittee
- 12. The procedure for ending a filibuster
- 13. This is how America counts the number of people here every ten years.
- 16. When a committee does nothing with a bill (or puts it on hold)
- 17. The type of committee that resolves differences in wording and sometimes substance between versions of the same bill in the two houses of Congress before final passage and presentation to the President
Down
- 2. The process of assigning the 435 seats in the House to the states based on increases or decreases in state population
- 3. An amendment that is tacked on to a bill (usually an appropriations bill)
- 5. The House committee that acts as a "traffic cop" for scheduling floor action on bills and determining how long they may be debated or the number of amendments that can be made on the floor
- 7. The system generally used to choose majority party members who will preside over committees
- 9. We say this option has been used when the Senate rules are amended to eliminate the filibuster
- 10. When a Senator engages in endless speech-making to stall or block passage of a bill
- 14. The house of Congress in which appropriation and tax bills begin
- 15. Attempting to use the process of re-drawing district boundaries to benefit a political party, protect incumbents, or change the proportion of minority voters in a district