Word: caucus
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...Campus Life Comm. Co-Chair, MRUC co-founder, Freshman Caucus; Prefect; IOP, Projects, Study groups, Communications, Internships, & Harvard Political Review Comm.; IM, basketball, volleyball, football cpt.; Peace Games...
...Campus Life Comm. Co-Chair, MRUC co-founder, Freshman Caucus; Prefect; IOP, Projects, Study groups, Communications, Internships, & Harvard Political Review Comm.; IM, basketball, volleyball, football cpt.; Peace Games...
Kappa Alpha Theta, former Soc. Chair, Current VP Development Counselor, Outreach Coord.; Peer Contraceptive; Harvard Model Congress, Chair; Radcliffe Union of Students, Pub. Chair, Coord of "Getting to Work" Conference; UC, Freshman Caucus; PBH, Chinatown Afterschool Program
Recent years have seen changes in Democratic caucus rules that make it easier for the leader to rein in headstrong chairmen. With the credibility of his agenda on the line, Gephardt has hinted he is likely to use that power in a Gingrichian way: by becoming the first Democratic Speaker in more than 20 years to set aside seniority in selecting his chairmen. If the Democrats win back the House, the erratic Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas appears almost certain to be unseated as head of the Banking Committee, and Conyers' position at Judiciary is far from secure...
Gephardt also has sought to diffuse power by spreading it around. As many as 50 Democrats meet daily with him to plan both strategy and policy, and he has put some of the caucus' most conservative members in critical positions. Only weeks after the election, he recruited Texan Chet Edwards to take charge of part of his vote-counting operation; Edwards himself would later vote for three-quarters of Gingrich's Contract with America. And when it came to developing anticrime policy for the caucus, Gephardt turned not to Conyers but to Bart Stupak of Michigan, an ardent...