Word: caucus
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...Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, an alumni, student and faculty group, later sponsored an evening reception attended by approximately 60 gay and lesbian faculty and students in Adams House Lower Common Room...
Women's groups, and especially the "Packwood 26," as his accusers came to be known, have been angered by the committee's pace. "His resurrection is a casebook example of crisis management," said Patricia Reilly, a spokeswoman for the National Women's Political Caucus who worked with the accusers. "As time goes by, the justice dwindles away. As in everything in Washington, if there isn't a sense of urgency, nothing gets done...
...Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge. "It destroyed his presidency," Gingrich told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce town meeting broadcast around the country. Gingrich andHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey(R-Tx.) called on voters to put grassroots pressure on the rebel representatives -- 102 of the 230-member GOP caucus -- to "keep our word on theContract." The rebels want to restrict tax credits to families with incomes no higher than $95,000, instead of $200,000. Rubbing salt in the wound, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt released Treasury Department figures today that say that otherwise, 51.4 percent...
...move by young G.O.P. conservatives to dump Oregon's Mark Hatfield from the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee fizzled in a closed-door party caucus. The conservatives were angry at Hatfield, who voted against the balanced-budget amendment--the lone Republican holdout...
...ways and now finds himself looking wistfully at his former colleagues in the House. "The Senate as a body was designed to slow things down. I hear that all the time," the young conservative grumbles. "Fine. Deliberate-but act!" Santorum and Florida Republican Connie Mack forced a party caucus last week to consider stripping Appropriations chairman Mark Hatfield of his rank for having refused to cast the vote that could have passed the balanced-budget amendment. All they got for their effort was a promise to study ways of improving party discipline in the future...