Word: caucus
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...only hitch in Byrd's arduous climb to the top may be the secret vote in the 62-Senator Democratic caucus. Head counters give Byrd 30 votes, two 14 short of a majority, and Humphrey 22. Humphrey hopes to pick up the ten votes he needsthat Byrd is acceptable to labor. He wasn't about to go against a sure winner." Humphrey's health also worries Senators, who wonder whether he will have the vitality for the job after undergoing removal of his cancerous bladder. Says Hubert, who insists that he has been advised he is healthy enough: "I prefer...
Women's groups also continued to bombard him with complaints against Dunlop, claiming that he had been insensitive to improving equal employment rights when he was Ford's Labor Secretary. They were quickly joined by Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Congress Watch, the congressional Black Caucus and other groups. But Carter was caught in a crossfire from most of organized labor, which wanted Dunlop. At one point, Carter aides asked AFL-CIO officials to suggest alternatives to Dunlop who would be acceptable to Labor Boss
...principal item on the agenda of the House Democratic Caucus was strictly ho-hum-though it involved selection of the man who will fill the second most powerful political office in the United States: the Speaker of the House. This process has sometimes produced gory battles. But last week, with the 292 Democrats who will sit in the next Congress eligible to vote (along with delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam and the Virgin Islands and the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico), there was literally no contest. Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, after four brilliantly...
...scramble for power begins next week when the 292-member House Democratic caucus meets to choose by secret ballot a new Speaker and majority leader. The current majority leader, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a big, tough-minded Boston liberal who is committed to Carter, is unopposed in his bid to succeed retiring Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma. By contrast, four candidates are in the race for the majority leader's position that O'Neill will be vacating...
Davis has given the Med School a stigma that may be difficult to dispel. The remarks of Phillip R. Pittman, chairman of the Med School's Third World Caucus, that "many students have a feeling of selling out if they apply to Harvard Medical School" reveals the great difficulty Harvard Med may have in getting qualified minorities to apply in the future...