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...their credit, few women's organizations have offered blanket pledges to support any and every woman candidate. "We are not interested in replacing mediocre men with mediocre women," says Kathy Wilson, head of the National Women's Political Caucus. She reports that her organization, the largest women's political group in the country, has been quite selective in endorsing female candidates. It has made support for the Equal Rights Amendment and the 1973 Supreme Court ruling maintaining the right to an abortion its two minimal conditions for endorsement; activists have opposed many women candidates. The caucus is currently supporting...
...make his request until 10:30 Tuesday night, 90 minutes before the conference committee report on the bill had to be filed. So Rostenkowski got on the phone to members of the committee, asking for their approval and telling them of the 20 votes in the steel caucus that might hang in the balance. Conable, the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, strenuously objected, but Rostenkowski had a majority and decided to make the change anyway. Bailey promised that he would lobby to line up support for the bill and vote in favor if his ballot...
...adviser and a staunch Reagan loyalist. There, too, were three other estranged Administration officials: former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, former Treasury Under Secretary Norman Ture and former Director of Policy Development Martin Anderson. Direct-Mail Mogul Richard Viguerie, publisher of the New Right Conservative Digest, and Conservative Caucus President Howard Phillips were probably the most thoroughly disenchanted erstwhile Reaganites. Neo-conservative Intellectual Irving Kristol came, as did PepsiCo Chairman Don Kendall and Richard Lesher, the dapper, steely president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Also on hand were two freshman Senators and five members of the House...
...supporters vowed vengeance for the amendment's defeat. The National Women's Political Caucus issued a "dirty dozen" list of state legislators, all male, who "roadblocked the Equal Rights Amendment." More constructively, they pledged to elect women to office in far greater numbers. Said Goucher College Student Anna Maria Halkousis: "In America, over half the population is female, but we are not the better half and not even the other half. In government, we are still the missing half...
...anarchy. Seven budgets had been drafted by the end of last week: three major ones by Democratic leaders headed by Speaker Tip O'Neill, Republican leaders and a bipartisan coalition of moderates; one by staunch conservatives, two competing ones by liberals and one by the 18-member Black Caucus. In addition, floor rules will permit votes on 68 separate amendments. House Republican leaders produced a budget that looks very much like the Senate document but, somehow, projects $ 15 billion less spending. How did they accomplish that feat? An aide to Senate Republican chiefs had a simple answer: "They...