Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisive speech was made by Ed Schwartz of Oberlin, who resembles a hulking, good-natured mole and who as chairman of the powerful Liberal Caucus was one of the most influential delegates to the congress...
Success for Novas was doomed even before the session began, thanks to the wiles of Novas' bitter antagonist, ex-Premier George Papandreou. The "Old Fox" had held his own little caucus of Center Union Party Deputies the day before, persuaded 143 of them to vote against Novas when the time came for balloting at the end of the debate. When Parliament convened for the debate, in which Novas had promised to reveal the iniquities of Papandreou's 17 months in office, Papandreou simply ordered his supporters to stay in an anteroom. The infuriated leader of the right-wing...
...party caucus just before the opening of the 89th Congress, Ohio's veteran Representative Mike Kirwan had some words of wisdom for freshman Democratic Congressmen. "Just follow the leader," said Kirwan, "and use your franking privilege. It's free...
...much-heralded replacement for the seniority system is given only a few pages at the end of the book. Bolling would have the Speaker nominate committee chairmen and members of the Ways and Means Committee (the Democrats' Committee on Committees) to be elected or rejected by the party caucus. New nominations would be made to replace rejected candidates. The caucus would also approve or reject decisions of the Ways and Means Committee on committee assignments. The advantages of this system are that they combine the effectiveness of a strong speaker and the representativeness of a powerful caucus...
...strengthening of the leadership. But there is no extensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the proposal, or its basis. On the procedural level, such a proposal would tend toward a party alignment on the order of rule - by - majority - of - a - majority (i.e. decisions of the party caucus), approaching the British system, which became quite popular among political scientists in the late forties. Such a view raises interesting questions about what kind of a legislature is most representative (and if, indeed, representation is the only value one ought to apply in judging legislative procedures) which Bolling never bothers...