Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sachs says the progressive caucus on the council intends to bring more legislation this term, including resolutions supporting affirmative action and gay rights...
...think every first-year knows about it now, because we're being very loud and obnoxious about it," said Naz F. Firnoz '02, speaking on behalf of the first-year caucus...
...Daschle, 51, is being magnanimous these days, it's only because he wants to help Trent Lott find a dignified way to end the proceedings. He knows that Lott wants it to be over but that he will lose part of his caucus if he tries to end it too fast. "This plane has two co-pilots, and I'm going to try to help him land it safely," Daschle told TIME...
...while, getting through it was made easier by the same bitter partisanship that's now keeping the trial alive. As the Democrats responded to what they saw as a Republican onslaught, keeping the caucus together didn't call for L.B.J.-style strong-arm tactics. And that's lucky, because squeeze plays aren't Daschle's style. With a caucus that includes unreconstructed liberals like Paul Wellstone of Minnesota as well as unpredictable bulls like Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, old-school cajoling just isn't terribly effective. So Daschle holds hands instead...
...minutes in Daschle's conference room. Along the way, they held off the more zealous members of their parties--the ones who wanted to torch the negotiations and break open the gun closets. Late Thursday, Lott called Daschle's cell phone in the middle of a closed-door Democratic caucus to tell him there would be no deal. The rules for going forward would be Republican rules, including one Democrats had strongly resisted, which left open the possibility that videotaped testimony might be released to the public. Despite the impasse, said Lott, he would honor concessions he'd made...