Across
- 3. Republicans sit on this side of the House and Senate
- 5. limits floor debate to 30 hours to end filibuster
- 9. The "traffic officer" of the house that directs the flow of major legislation
- 11. Who serves as the President of the Senate?
- 13. Votes for leadership positions divided by this, majority controls the flow of bills
Down
- 1. stalling tactic used to try to force the Senate to drop a bill
- 2. Who is the most powerful person in the House of Reps?
- 4. What the members of the house break into because there are so many members and thousands or proposed laws
- 6. elected to run the Senate when the VP is absent
- 7. The people in the districts Congressmen represent
- 8. minimum number of members needed for official legislative action
- 9. place where bills are placed to be read aloud and sent to committee
- 10. Members of the House and Senate picked by their parties to steer law making and meet goals of their party
- 12. Democrats sit on this side of the House and Senate