Word: caucus
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Holmes, also a member of the Third World Caucus, a coalition of minority organizations in the Medical School, said the admissions changes "seemed fair." "We are especially glad we could get around the legal problems without eliminating the minority subcommittee," she added...
Conservatives accuse Carter of betraying a longtime ally. New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., chairman of the National Conservative Caucus, ordered flags of Taiwan lowered to half-staff over his statehouse. The American Conservative Union asked its members to protest to their Congressmen. Ronald Reagan, running hard for the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination, cabled Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Ching-kuo "to express my deep regret at the action that has been taken...
...that closed meeting, the Democrats decided that none of the four should be deprived automatically of any subcommittee chairmanship because of the allegations against them. The caucus did rule that Michigan's Charles C. Diggs, convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for taking salary kickbacks from his staff, must face a vote of the entire caucus on whether he can remain as chairman of the Africa Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee. So, too, must Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, indicted on bribery and other charges, if he wishes to keep his chairmanship of the Labor...
...this newly unrebellious mood, the Democratic caucus readily re-elected its party leaders O'Neill, Wright and Tom Foley, chairman of the caucus. Those leaders appreciatively took this as a refreshing vote of confidence. The caucus also beat back efforts by some of the older reformist firebrands to slash the remaining powers of committee chairmen even further. There was remarkably little resistance when O'Neill asked that the one sensitive issue facing the caucus be debated and decided in private, rather than with reporters present. It was the question of what to do about four members...
Older hands noted that as these and other decisions were being made in the caucus, the newest members took little part. They apparently had come to learn, rather than to upset things. Connecticut's Bob Giaimo, chairman of the influential House Budget Committee, watched with admiration. "The newcomers are learning the ropes, not taking the lead," he noted. "The reform spirit is not in them...