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...Women, Benefits, Continuing Education, Faculty Development and Diversity, and Pedagogical Improvement, as well as by a visiting committee of the overseers or a working group or task force examining the composition of the faculty. Beyond these more official committees, informal groups like the House Masters’ Council or Caucus of Chairs usually weigh in, and a bill often merits the creation of a committee with subcommittees to conduct consultations and meet with still more committees and working groups. These subcommittees convene and then write a report, which is then redistributed to other committees for discussion. Since these committees...
...chief of staff, Christine Beatty, a childhood friend who had assisted his successful 1996 run for a seat in Michigan's House of Representatives. (His mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, vacated the seat to run for national office; she is now a U.S. representative and chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus...
...Olson also has some clout in South Asian circles-his old boss Senator Cornyn founded the India Caucus in the Senate and is well-regarded by the district's Indian-American voters. Olson's pitch to voters emphasizes "a new generation of conservative leadership" for the district and his platform includes conservative stands on family and faith issues, low taxes and and cuts in government spending that have some appeal to small businessowners. However, one longtime commentator and analyst of Texas politics, Harvey Kronberg, editor of the Quorum Report, an Austin-based political newsletter, said he has never seen Democrats...
...Childers has not focused his campaign on Bush or on a House Republican caucus that has usually marched in lockstep with Bush or even on Davis; Childers' speeches make it sound as if he's running against a Washington resident named Partisan Bickering. He may be a Democrat, but he's a pro-gun, pro-life, pro-drilling Blue Dog Democrat who rarely mentions House Speaker Nancy Pelosi except to assure voters that she doesn't tell him what to do. And for all his folksy chatter, he won't even say whether he's voting for Obama, shifting...
...smart strategy for building a solid majority: there are now 47 Blue Dogs in her caucus--about 20% of House Democrats. But Pelosi will have to decide whether to try to use her leash. At some point, those Blue Dogs are going to bark...