Word: caucus
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Although both the President and his Cabinet put in a lot of gas mileage in their nationwide speechmaking, all their energy actually was directed toward influencing critical events back in Washington. There, amid the chandeliered splendor of the Senate Caucus Room, an unwieldy 43-member conference committee of Senators and Congressmen met for the first time last week. Their challenge was to reconcile the vast differences between energy legislation passed by the House, which gave Carter almost everything, and by the Senate, which has not yet completed its work but seems bent on giving Carter almost nothing but the back...
Allin's speech, apparently designed to calm the dissidents, served to inflame supporters of women's rights. "Many of my people are discouraged and despondent." reported Bishop Robert Rusack of Los Angeles. A caucus of women activists in New York and New Jersey, including the wife of Newark's assistant bishop, sent a telegram urging the acceptance of Allin's resignation offer. Perhaps mindful that opponents are ready to walk out and women are not, the bishops took a tolerant view of the dissidents. They passed a freedom-of-conscience clause specifying that no one should...
...case, which challenges the constitutionality of racial quotas, and perhaps even the concept of affirmative action, has generated widespread concern and interest from such disparate groups as the Congressional Black Caucus and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith...
Fears about the ramifications of the Bakke case are not confined to university admissions offices. Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio), speaking last summer on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus, said he fears the Bakke case may open the door for a reversal of the civil rights gains...
...formal opening of the great national debate over ratification of the Panama Canal treaty. Yet the spectator seats in the Senate's historic Caucus Room were rarely close to being filled...