Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iowa, for instance, doves, populists, union leaders and feminists weigh heavily in the caucus process. When Gephardt flexes his muscles for trade and farm legislation, he wins points in the small Iowa caucus arena but risks coming across to a national audience as a Mondale-style panderer to special interests. "If Gephardt really wanted to look gutsy," says one party critic, "he'd tell the unions where to go." Biden has tried to look tough by taking command of the battle against Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork. But he ends up seeming to cater to liberal groups and surrendering...
...high-school dropouts? On average, they have been earning roughly the same amount of money: $20,000 for the women and $19,000 for the men. That is one of the dismaying findings of an economic study titled The American Woman 1987-88, which was released by the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...
After months of chasing down elusive documents, Congressional Correspondent Michael Duffy arrived in the Senate Caucus Room last week to find aides distributing 500 pages of material to each reporter. As the week wore on, Duffy filled three loose-leaf binders with more than 1,150 pages of declassified documents, computer messages and memos -- all toted around by him in an aging gym bag. From his seat only a dozen feet from North, Duffy watched for four days as the Marine went head to head with lawmakers. "It was a classic confrontation," he says, "and North seemed to relish...
...that moment, on the left side of the television screen, another Marine, Oliver North, leaned forward in the witness chair in the Senate Caucus Room, listening, his eyes gone now from disingenuous to wounded, then brightening to a righteous glint...
What happened in the Senate Caucus Room last week was a sort of drama of the moral settlement of America. First there was the frontier, the wild places where savages roamed and life was dangerous and action was survival. The pioneer, the early cowboy, the vigilante all kept guns loaded and shot fast. One did not survive by regulations and laws and merely mental, abstract things. Justice was a rougher business, and even at that ran a distant second to coming out of it alive. "The essential American soul," D.H. Lawrence once extravagantly wrote, "is hard, isolate, stoic...