Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bork's confirmation hearing Tuesday, held in the same Senate Caucus Room where the Watergate hearings were held, the Judiciary Committee heard different accounts of Bork's role in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre...
Irene Natividad, chairwoman of National Women's Political Caucus, said Mrs. Schroeder had made "a smart, pragmatic political decision. I think it was the right thing...
Judge Robert Bork, the fire-breathing right-wing ideologue who would wreak havoc on U.S. law, did not show up at the Senate Caucus Room last week. Neither did Robert Bork, the quick-witted charmer, "the bearded Ollie North," who would obliterate his opposition. The 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee met a different Robert Bork last week, one who did not quite fit the images drawn by either his liberal critics or his conservative boosters...
...Cognoscenti Caucus is not for everyone. It is limited to pollsters, party activists, key fund raisers and the national press corps, whose job it is to winnow the unwieldy field and set the expectations that the candidates must meet in Iowa and New Hampshire next February. They are the elite audience the candidates have been trying to impress in living rooms from Muscatine to Manchester...
There is, of course, no formal Cognoscenti Caucus. But Labor Day is a rough benchmark, as the candidates move from backers' auditions to full-fledged Broadway tryouts. The cast in both parties seems set; only Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado is waiting in the wings actively considering a late entry. The candidates (eight Democrats, with Schroeder, and six Republicans) have had months to master their lines, crafting glib answers to almost every conceivable question and perfecting a sincere this-is-who-I-am stump speech. The early-bird voters in Iowa and New Hampshire for the most part have...