Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position paper the Black Caucus had prepared for the panel on Housing was a rather ambiguous document citing only the dimensions of the problem and offering rent subsidies as the only solution. The audience was noticeably upset at the lack of concrete proposals. They formed ten additional proposals to remedy the situation and ratified them by unanimous voice vote. The ad hoc resolutions included a statement that the right to decent housing is a federally enforceable civil right, as well as a condemnation of Phase II of the Economic Stabilization...
Thus as the conference came to a close on Friday evening, the Congressional Black Caucus had to face the most embarrassing question of them all. The question was not asked directly but in small discussions and private telephone conversation. The question: Why is this conference different from any other? The simple answer: It was the most frustrating and useless of them all. And that's too bad. The conference could have turned out to be so much, yet it turned out to be so little
...Service is expected to serve what Congressman William Clay calls a "national black legislative agenda" to the Democratic Platform Committee. Clay, who was just elected to the House in 1969, has emerged as a principal chef of the Catering Service, and serves as the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. The two-day forum here last week was clearly a part of his recipe for making the Ethnic Catering Service's dish all the more irresistable come chow-time in Miami...
Clay had been a ubiquitous figure at the conference, chairing the Caucus's meetings with the press, serving on the panel on Communications and filling in on the one on Health...
...panel, Dr. John Knowles and Pierre de Vise, on one hand and just about everyone else in the room on the other. Clay had sat in front of a microphone in the middle of the panel table while Knowles and de Vise had attacked the position paper of the Caucus for assuming that an increase in the number of black doctors was an unequivocal good. The question of the moment had to do with doctors. Clay pondered the question with his eyes half-closed. He had spoken in agreement with the majority during the session, defending the call for more...