Word: caucus
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...mandates: $32.4 billion. What's missing from the grab bag is the controversial Racial Justice Act, which would have allowed death-row inmates to appeal their sentences if, using racial statistics, they could indicate bias. That battle was fought, and lost, by the Congressional Black Caucus. The crime bill's biggest winner would be President Clinton, who spent a year lobbying...
...tough job justifying an invasion to Congress and the public. Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged Clinton to "think . . . very carefully" before ordering an invasion of Haiti, which he termed not a vital interest of the U.S. Even the 40-Democrat Congressional Black Caucus is not unanimous. While most of its members favor an invasion, California's Ron Dellums, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, insists that "the use of force is neither appropriate nor necessary...
...Minnesota it's more like a divorce. With polls showing him favored by Republican voters 3 to 1 over Quist, Carlson will challenge the Republican nominee in a primary battle this September. If the Quist forces prevail, he warns, voters will flee to the Democrats. "The Republican legislative caucus will be able to meet in a phone booth." Or maybe the new triumphs of the religious right will be a wake-up call for the rest of the party...
...step-by-step process worked in liberal but heavily Roman Catholic Massachusetts, where a gay-rights bill was enacted in 1989 after 17 years of legislative debate. By 1992, a third of all candidates for state legislature sought endorsement from the 15,000-member Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus; this year, all four gubernatorial hopefuls support gay rights. The Massachusetts Board of Education last year adopted, unanimously, the nation's first state educational policy prohibiting discrimination against gay elementary and secondary students. Last December, Governor William Weld signed a similar bill into...
However, the most quietly painful lack of support was from African-American leaders themselves. Though 20 members of the Congressional Black Caucus were invited, the only black elected officials to attend were Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume of Maryland and Donald Payne of New Jersey. Jackson was the only representative from any of the other major black civil-rights organizations to show up. Chavis seemed to be alluding to absentees as well as critics when he declared, "The last time I checked my back, it was someone of African descent that put the dagger in and twisted...