Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senators try to make up their minds on the SALT II treaty Beneath the crystal chandeliers of the Senate's majestic main Caucus Room, some of the most important congressional activities in the nation's history have taken place. Teapot Dome's sordid realities were revealed there, and Watergate's. Last week the room was once again jammed to capacity as the nine Democrats and six Republicans of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called the first witnesses in the great debate on SALT II. The issue could well become the most critical foreign policy confrontation between...
...because 1) new, all-enclosed wood stoves increase heat efficiency way above that of open fireplaces, and 2) new central-heating furnaces that burn both wood and oil can save up to 200 gal. of oil for each cord (128 cu. ft.) of wood consumed. A New England Congressional Caucus study optimistically forecasts that 50% of Maine's energy needs could be met by wood in the mid-1980s. Also, about 150 paper and pulp plants burn wood commercially, each producing an average of 500 kw of electricity for local industry, thus saving about 5 million...
...most commercially promising sites around the nation that have steep drops as well as fast and large river flows, the greatest enthusiasm now is for the restoration of "low head" dams (less than 65 ft. high) to supply power to local communities and industries. The New England Congressional Caucus, a group of the area's federal representatives, puts the potential regional saving from new dams at up to 19 million bbl. of oil a year, or as much as the U.S. uses...
...House Democratic Caucus last week voted 138 to 69 to continue controls. The vote will have no effect unless it is repeated by the full House and Senate, and in the upper chamber oil-state Senators probably could sustain a filibuster against continued controls. But the revolt does underline Carter's inability to get a consensus, even within his own party, on any kind of energy policy...
...Kennedy group in Iowa hopes to swing the January Democratic caucus, which launched Carter in 1976, to support their man. They have placed a $1,000 order for red-white-and-blue TED K buttons...