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...Democrats are moving swiftly into the leadership vacuum, gearing up for a legislative onslaught worthy, on paper at least, of the New Deal or the Great Society. To that end, they are undertaking a major reorganization in the House. In meetings this week, the Democratic caucus intends to strip slow-moving, conservative committee chairmen of their power by putting more liberals on key committees. The caucus, in fact, plans to reassign Democrats to a better than 2-to-l majority on every committee, arousing cries of legislative tyranny among Republicans...
...Lewis, special assistant to Boston Mayor Kevin White and a leader of the National Women's Political Caucus, said yesterday she intends to campaign for a "full discussion of women's issues" at the convention. She left yesterday afternoon for the rules committee meetings, also to be held in Kansas City...
...understand we can get possible support from members of liberal labor, who also want some discussion of national issues," Lewis said. "If there's a coalition that succeeds in getting issues on the agenda, we [the caucus] want to be included...
Strauss has said he will push for the compromise to avoid splintering the party over what he calls a "minor semantic problem." But Barkan already has threatened to pull his labor support out of the party. Late last summer, the black caucus threatened to walk out of Kansas City if Barkan succeeded in amending the rules...
Keenan said the caucus plan will be analogous to the masters' informal group and will not be "anything revolutionary." He predicted that "there will be some speechifying but the proposal will pass...