Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once assured of the nomination of the college caucus, practically a guarantee of election by the General Council, Phillips' forces moved quickly to fill up all remaining posts with loyal delegates...
...crucial test today will be in the Caucus at 6 p.m. in Harkness , where Barber and Phillips will the chairmanship nomination. convention meets at 8 p.m. in Lecture Hall to decide the issue
...since he had supported the independent presidential-elector slate in Mississippi rather than Kennedy-Johnson". Rayburn vacillated between the purge and his three-new-member plan, a less drastic break with House traditions and Southern feelings. His mind once made up on committee packing, he announced a "binding" Democratic caucus, a rare device by which a two-thirds vote can bind all members of the party to vote for a particular proposal. Again Mister Sam wavered, decided that a binding caucus would injure Southern feelings too deeply, and that he could win without it anyway...
With the doors of the House chamber shut to keep out the public, the press and the Republicans, the Democratic members of the House met last week in a party caucus that will be long remembered on Capitol Hill. After years of futile attempts, House Democratic liberals finally won a decisive victory over Virginia's crusty old Rules Committee Chairman Howard W. Smith, leader of the road-blocking conservative coalition that has dominated the mighty Rules Committee since 1937 (TIME, Jan. 13). The caucus lasted only 15 minutes, but it cleared away the most formidable congressional obstacle...
...seat. It was just about the only solid evidence of his new office that Mansfield was likely to get. In his new role, or roles, Johnson will retain and pick up more titles and perquisites than a Bourbon king. He will continue as presiding officer over the Senate Democratic caucuses and director of party strategy-a job traditionally held by the majority leader, with an added $40,000-a-year payroll for office help. He was surprised and right grieved to learn that 17 Senators voted against this proposal in the Democratic caucus, because they thought it was an executive...