Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHAMPIONS OF progressive legislationlike Arline Isaacson, co-chair of theMassachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus,are not so quick to decide. Isaacson says the twocandidates' fiscal conservatism is the mostdisheartening...
...White House meeting, Bush and Foley agreed that the Speaker could offer the Democratic majority a carrot: assurances that the most objectionable details in the plan could be changed in the next two weeks, before the final legislation was to be passed. Foley took this word to the Democratic caucus, along with a strong warning: if Democrats were seen as killers of the deal, they would shoulder the blame for the & paralysis in government. Said one member: "Tom was very emotional, very strong...
...Democrats left the room to caucus, then returned to ask for some changes. Where Darman had written "it is clear that . . ." the Democrats demanded a change to "it is clear to me" -- meaning Bush, meaning he would have to stand behind the proposals that followed...
ITRY to explain that there is a lot more to Iowa than eight-row combines and the first presidential caucus. A lot more. It may surprise you that the average SAT score in Iowa was the nation's highest last year, or that Iowa's literacy rate leads all states...
...Chicago." Gray, the third- ranking Democrat in the House and a man who has been mentioned as the first black vice presidential nominee, waited to see a videotape of Savage's remarks before declaring them "unacceptable, divisive and bigoted." A private lunchtime meeting last week of the Congressional Black Caucus turned into what one member called "a knock-down, drag-out" on Savage. Said a participant: "I think members are trying to say to him, 'Cool it. Don't continue to try and tear things apart.' " The next day, Savage screened a videotape of his speech and asserted that...