Across
- 4. Process of giving one political party an advantage over another by redrawing district lines
- 5. The determination of how many members each US state sends to the House of Representatives, based on population
- 6. Person who represents interest groups in their discussions with legislators
- 10. A bill that passes both houses of Congress and is signed by the President
- 11. Add one to appropriations bills generally because they cannot stand on their own merits
- 12. Government policies that directly or indirectly give a preference to minorities, women, or the physically challenged in order to make up for past discrimination caused by society as a whole.
- 13. Technique used to shut down debate in the US Senate
- 14. Requiring government meeting and hearings must be held or open to the public
- 15. An official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.
Down
- 1. A permanent body that studies and makes recommendations to pass-not pass a bill
- 2. A smaller meeting of representatives from a standing committee, to study specific issues
- 3. A bill is "killed" when it is not acted upon in its assigned committee
- 7. This body determines the debate and amendment terms when a bill is ready to go to the floor of the House of Representatives
- 8. The people represented by members of Congress
- 9. The President simply allows a bill to die on his desk during the last ten days of a congressional session