Word: caucuses
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Approval of this program as the party's policy was by simple and enthusiastic voice vote. Harmony was not so easily attained in the matter of adopting the party charter for 1980 and be yond. As the convention gathered mo mentum and delegates of like mind began to caucus, Strauss started worrying that the compromises that he had so laboriously and skillfully put together for the party charter would come apart at the last moment. The most ex plosive issue in what Strauss called "a political minefield" was how explicitly the party charter should guarantee the representation and vote...
...made challenges difficult for any group that felt cheated in a state-delegation selection process: the burden of proof would have been on the accuser who charged that the state party had not honestly tak en affirmative action. Some blacks, whose position was supported by the women's caucus, threatened to walk out of the convention if the rule was not changed to make challenge easier. After some tense bargaining and caucusing, it was changed to tighten the monitoring of affirmative action and remove the burden of proof...
Strauss's technique was to keep in close touch with all factions of the party, ranging from Alabama Governor George Wallace on the right to Black Caucus leaders on the left, and try to maintain a scrupulous neutrality among the jockeying presidential hopefuls of the party. A resolute pragmatist, Strauss was lukewarm at best about some of the party reforms proposed by the liberals, but backed them because he sensed that they were supported by a broad majority of the party...
...forum for revolt was the House Democratic Caucus, which consists of all 291 Democrats who will begin new terms in January. Long an ineffectual debating society for the party's many factions, it emerged dramatically as an instrument of power. The moderate leadership and ambitious rebels combined to move first against the House Ways and Means Committee and its once indomitable chairman, Wilbur Mills. Earlier this year the House had voted to force Mills to subdivide his committee into four subcommittees with separate chairmen and thus dilute his authority. Angered at his unwillingness to act on such legislation...
Stripper Fanne Foxe (see following stones). Mills returned to Washington to attend the caucus on Monday, surprisingly unaware of impending personal disaster...