Across
- 3. a population count
- 7. the senate member in the absence of the vice president
- 9. a member of a lawmaker`s personal staff who hadles requests for help from constituents
- 11. a group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcatecory of it`s standing committee`s responsability
- 12. the Speaker`s top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party`s legislative program
- 13. A schedule that lists the order in which bills will be consideres in Congress
- 14. the process of reassignin representation based on population
- 15. A persom whom a member of Congress has been elected to represent
- 16. a method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote
- 18. elected oficial who is already in office
Down
- 1. a vote of formal disapproval of a member`s actions
- 2. to set up new district lines after reapportionmentis complete
- 4. a two-chamber legislature
- 5. a period of time diring wich a legislature meets to conduct business
- 6. a temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed differntversions of the same bill
- 8. The minimun number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action
- 9. A procedure that allows each senator to speak only I hour on a bill under debate
- 10. an assistant to the party floor leader in the legislature
- 17. A proposed law
- 19. A private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office