Word: caucus
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...same time, the most influential committee, tax-writing Ways and Means, remains under the chairmanship of Wilbur Mills. Although he survived his celebrated blowup with the "Argentine Firecracker" by comfortably winning reelection, Mills' grip on his committee has been seriously slipping. There is talk within the Democratic caucus of clipping the committee's jurisdiction or even easing Mills out as chairman. Next in line is Oregon's Al Ullman, a hard-working liberal, popular with his colleagues. Also likely to assume heavy responsibilities in the next House is New Jersey's Peter Rodino, whose performance...
...This was the year of the breakthrough for women," declared Frances T. ("Sissy") Farenthold, chairman of the National Women's Political Caucus. In addition to the Democratic triumph of Governor-elect Ella Grasso of Connecticut, Democrat Janet Gray Hayes, 47, of San Jose, Calif., became the first woman mayor of a U.S. city of more than 500,000, and Democrat Susie Sharp, 67, of North Carolina, the first woman chief justice of a state supreme court. For the first time, New York chose a woman, Democrat Mary Anne Krupsak, 42, as Lieutenant Governor, and Californians elected Democrat March Fong...
Last May the House Democratic Caucus created another committee to study the Boiling committee's recommendations. That committee, headed by Washington's Julia Butler Hansen, watered down or scrapped most of Boiling's plans in its own 86-page proposal. Afraid that reform would be lost altogether if the House opted for the Hansen sugar pills, Nebraska's David Martin, the ranking Republican on the Boiling committee, came up with a 92-page compromise package, halfway between Boiling and Hansen...
...after six years of co-education, many problems are left unsolved. A women's caucus group devoted to discussing many of the women's problems on campus drew over 100 people Tuesday night, and the dominant questions on the docket included women's courses, health service problems, and the univeristy's alleged non-support of women's athletics...
...political opponents is already showing its first signs of strain. Last week Presidential Aide L. William Seidman announced that because Congress would not have time to pass on any major new policy initiatives this year, "real action" on the economy would have to wait until 1975. The Senate Democratic caucus, obviously unwilling to give up the party's most promising issue for the November congressional elections, wasted no time in replying that speedier action was needed. The Democrats pledged to keep Congress in session for the rest of the year, if necessary, to deal with any economic program that...