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...vote. Privately, Mondale strategists have met with Jackson and his aides to outline problems of finance and organization. They have stressed that Democratic Party rules such as the "threshold" requirement, which says that a candidate must win at least 20% of the vote in a primary or caucus to gain any delegates, will make it tough for Jackson to win more than 150 to 200 of the Democratic Convention's nearly 4,000 delegates. That fact seems unlikely to influence Jackson or his supporters. "If he could win a few primaries and lock up a couple of hundred delegates...
...vote in the House reflected a significant shift in sentiment. In May, 91 Democrats voted to restore research and development money for the MX. But last week, only 73 Democrats voted to authorize production money. The defectors, including Majority Leader Jim Wright, were under intense pressure from the Democratic caucus and nuclear-freeze groups. Many Democrats question whether the Administration is sincere about bargaining for arms reductions. "The President himself has shown some flexibility, but it hasn't trickled down to his advisers," said Democratic Congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas...
...delegates, most of them Congresswomen, state officials and activists, found that women's status as this year's pre-election prom queen was a lot more fun than last year's post-ERA role as wallflower. It was, for one thing, the first time since the Caucus was founded twelve years ago that the guys had come to their party...
...child-support and pension reform. Schneider called the meeting "a significant signal that the White House is serious" about portions, at least, of the Economic Equity Act. This is a complex package of legislation on pension reform, tax relief, insurance discrimination and child-care issues developed by the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...
...reappointment as Federal Reserve Board chairman. The rumpled, cigar-puffing Volcker has become the staid financial community's first superstar. So great was the interest in his remarks that the 3½-hour session had to be moved from the Senate Banking Committee Hearing Room to the cavernous Caucus Room, the scene of the Watergate hearings and the Senate's most ornate special chamber. Declared Republican John Heinz of Pennsylvania at one point in the hearing: "We're lucky to have you as chairman...