Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans no longer resort to direct racist attacks, but they'll find 10,000 ways to tell you why you can't finish a program here," said Mitchell, a member of the Black Congressional Caucus...
...freshmen representatives have been meeting informally this term as the Freshman Caucus to help the six jurisdictions of the Yard work better as a group...
...garnered bi-partisan support, it is an easy target for many who consider the District to be to urban, too liberal, too Black and too Democratic. Attacks have come chiefly from what Klick describes as the radical conservative rightwing groups such as The American Conservative Union, the Conservative Caucus, the Heritage and Liberty foundations." Genuine conservatives generally support the American principle of "one man, one vote," she adds...
...Members of the K.B.L. [the ruling New Society Movement] caucus said, "Let's talk now about what should be done in order to strengthen the leadership that may follow you." This was their argument: Any new President must get the support of the First Lady, otherwise there may be division in political leadership; so we have to agree that while she is a member of the Executive Committee, she is not going to be President, she's not going to be Prime Minister...
Smooth of pen, wicked of wit, and controversial of strip, Pulitzer-Prizewinning Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has skewered politics and society for twelve years. And there lies the trouble. After guiding the lives of such outspoken, '60s-scarred characters as Joanie Caucus, B.D., Uncle Duke, and his own alter ego, Michael J. Doonesbury, through some 4,300 cartoon strips, Trudeau, 34, thinks it is time to refill the inkwell. "I need a breather," he confesses. "Investigative cartooning is a young man's game." Though the cartoonist will be off from the beginning of next year through the fall...