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...Vander Jagt; obviously, the feeling was that the new President's legislative program stood a better chance against the Democratic majority under Michel's brand of amicable persuasion. Republicans also elected New York's Jack Kemp as chairman of the party's conference, or caucus, and Mississippi's Trent Lott as party whip...
Though most of the faculty "seemed very receptive" to the requests for a recruiter and for the day-long seminar, many cited the formidable financial burdens of the proposals, Forman said. Donna M. Blackshear, a student sub-committee member and a leader of the school's Black Caucus, said yesterday that committee members estimated the cost of the recruiter...
...Reagan people and their friends on Capitol Hill are on the wrong track already, thinking that what we called for was a return to 'normalcy,'" says Howard Phillips, head of the Conservative Caucus, a low-profile organization that helps set the New Right's agenda and sees that it receives attention throughout the country...
Conservative Democrats have made surprising headway in elections for committee chairmanships, while 33 representatives from the South and South-west have created a right-wing coalition already dubbed the Redneck Caucus. Headed by Rep. Charles W. Stenholm (D-Texas), the group has promised to join Republicans in floor fights against progressive social programs...
Along 16th Street all the world's churches seem to have convened for a permanent caucus - Mormon, Universalist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Swedenborgian. There are many distinctive areas like this. Glen Echo is an amusement park that went out of business in 1968. Now arts groups meet there near abandoned carrousel horses and a cracked, empty pool. Downtown, the old Woodward & Lothrop department store looks as handsome as ever, with its polished wood everywhere. Streets are lined with wig emporiums and phrenologists. The National Portrait Gallery is located in the old U.S. Patent Office that doubled as a makeshift hospital during...