Word: caucus
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...Democrats are moving swiftly into the leadership vacuum, gearing up for a legislative onslaught worthy, on paper at least, of the New Deal or the Great Society. To that end, they are undertaking a major reorganization in the House. In meetings this week, the Democratic caucus intends to strip slow-moving, conservative committee chairmen of their power by putting more liberals on key committees. The caucus, in fact, plans to reassign Democrats to a better than 2-to-l majority on every committee, arousing cries of legislative tyranny among Republicans...
Marcus, national chairman of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, went even farther into fantasy. By supporting birth control, said Marcus, Rockefeller has made a "criminal commitment to genocide accompanied by a commitment to reduce massively the standards of living of the world's industrialized sector to levels matching those in the Third World." This was too much even for one of Rocky's sternest critics on the committee. "I find your statement so excessive and so extreme that it is counterproductive," said California Democrat Jerome Waldie...
Richard G. Hatcher, mayor of Gary, Ind. and one of the leaders of the Black Political Caucus, said yesterday that blacks "won an important fight on a significant issue in party affairs...
...understand we can get possible support from members of liberal labor, who also want some discussion of national issues," Lewis said. "If there's a coalition that succeeds in getting issues on the agenda, we [the caucus] want to be included...
Strauss has said he will push for the compromise to avoid splintering the party over what he calls a "minor semantic problem." But Barkan already has threatened to pull his labor support out of the party. Late last summer, the black caucus threatened to walk out of Kansas City if Barkan succeeded in amending the rules...