Word: caucused
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...caucus elected an outspoken and highly ambitious liberal, California's Phillip Burton, as its chairman...
Symbolic of the shifting tides, the caucus even dismissed the House's familiar, deep-voiced doorkeeper, William...
...taking full advantage of his potential power. Senior and more conservative Democrats still have practical influence as chairmen of many committees. Yet the changes, coupled with an increasingly liberal Senate, suggest that Congress will sharply challenge President Ford's view of desirable legislation. Even without the caucus reforms, Congress has already overridden four Ford vetoes-only one less than throughout the 5% Nixon years...
...election chances in the first contest to offer a Republican challenge to his seat since he initially won it 36 years ago. Nonetheless, Mills gained re-election in November by a comfortable majority. Though his powers as chairman were due to be curbed by a reform-minded Democratic caucus in any case, it looked as if he could keep his chair if he was willing to fight for it. Then came his fatal foray into Boston, a trip that Mills undertook, he later told newsmen, to dispel rumors that he had been having an affair with Fanne Foxe. The trip...
...Chairman," Rostenkowski replied, "you've got a runaway caucus out there. You've embarrassed a lot of the members." As Rostenkowski explained that Mills' power was slipping from him, Mills drifted away, as though in a trance. "You know I'm a sick man," he finally said. "I've got terrible pain...