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...late Friday afternoon. He also wanted to hold it in a small committee room and ban television cameras. That way he hoped to confine daily press coverage to the lightly read Saturday newspapers. But pressure from other Senators forced Tower to move the session into the cavernous Senate caucus room, where the Watergate and McCarthy hearings were held, and to allow cameras...
...Congress, a loosely knit "reform caucus" of 50 members, ranging from conservative Republicans to liberal Democrats, has tried to steer a course between the hawks, who would give the generals whatever they request, and the doves, who are dedicated to beating all new weapons into food stamps. "Our emphasis is not on where we can cut, but where we can replace with something more cost effective," says Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, one of the group's founders. Among the leading members are Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan...
Such hijinks can mean only one thing: the quadrennial silly season has started again. Twenty-one months before the presidential election and a full year before the first caucus or primary, a drove of Democratic hopefuls are formally declaring their candidacies. A few, heaven help the electorate, have been campaigning unofficially for more than a year...
...elected since Ronald Reagan could vote. Still, his Administration's policies have often turned out not so conservative as his opponents on the left had feared. Or, conversely, as the volatile far right had giddily hoped. "Reagan," declares Howard Phillips, head of the New Right's Conservative Caucus, "is a total disaster...
...faculty finally adopted the caucus's proposal for a women's program, with the assistance of the Ford Foundation. The program has grown since then, winning increased funding over the years and better-qualified scholars as research associates...