Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grinning and handshaking, he proclaimed: "Everything is fine. I'm all right." But when Florida's Sam Gibbons observed that Ways and Means members were "sensitive about stripping," snickers followed. Offended, Mills stalked out of the caucus...
This saved him from more direct humiliation. In four days of meetings, the caucus voted to take the power to assign all House committee members-a vital source of Mills' influence-away from Ways and Means and give it to the Democratic Steering Committee, which consists of the House leaders and other influential party members. This in effect gives Speaker Albert an appointive power not held by a House leader since it was carved away from the autocratic Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon in 1910. The caucus voted to increase Mills' committee to 37 members, including 25 Democrats...
...Group. Aiming more broadly than at just Ways and Means, the caucus voted to give Albert authority to name members of the House Rules Committee, a key group in getting legislation moving. The caucus also decided that Democrats should hold two-thirds plus one of the seats on each committee, and in a further warning to entrenched chairmen, the caucus made heads of House Appropriations subcommittees subject to its approval...
...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...