Word: caucused
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This last lesson is perhaps most startling to America's feminist groups. Two weeks ago, backed by angry calls and letters from women across the country, they demonstrated their clout by pressuring the Senate into investigating Anita Hill's story. When Hill walked into the Senate Caucus Room, women across America saw her as the bearer of an old secret about the ugly politics of accommodation between men and women on the job. But by the time Hill walked out of the hearings, a majority of women had decided she did not speak for them...
...witnesses to this spectacle, whether there in the Senate Caucus Room or at home in their living rooms, deciding who was telling the truth was all but impossible. Viewers had to weigh the testimony of two admirable people -- both of whom had escaped, through diligence and perseverance, a background of rural poverty to scale great heights, both of whom are known to be grounded in strong religious and spiritual values, both of whom have reputations for great personal integrity -- and pronounce one of them a liar. In the final analysis, it would come down to this: the specificity of Hill...
...between a rock star and the dictator of a banana republic is tolerated. One of the sessions during orientation for congressional spouses is on how to live with a celebrity. It's an atmosphere, says former Missouri Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods, who now heads the National Women's Political Caucus, where "Senators prey on women as if they were groupies." One wife has remarked that a reason members spend so much time at the office is the adoring staff. There's too much reality at home...
When a contingent of seven House members marched down the marble halls of the Senate to the Democratic caucus room to ask for a meeting about sexual harassment, they were told they couldn't come in. Said California Congresswoman and Senate candidate Barbara Boxer: "What could be more symbolic than that closed door?" Some Senators "got it" better after some sensitivity training at home. Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jim Exon said they didn't realize how serious the issue was until they talked to their wives. Said Boxer: "If there were more women in the Senate, they wouldn...
...Texas board of regents. She has sidestepped some prickly issues: refusing to help devise a court- ordered plan for equalizing school funding and to introduce a state income tax to ease Texas' $4.6 billion budget shortfall. "Her honeymoon is over," , warns Tom Craddick, leader of the Republican legislative caucus. "She needs to draw up a budget to show how she'll pay for all the programs. So far, she hasn't said anything...