Word: caucuses
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Robert H. Elbert, dean of the Medical School, agreed Monday to appoint the task force at the request of the Third World Caucus, a group of 125 Chicano, black, American Indian and Puerto Rican Medical students...
...task force will examine bio-social curriculum, a relatively new aspect of medical education, which stresses training in community health care, Jaime Rivera, a member of the Caucus said yesterday...
...institutional integrity of Congress is more than a partisan concern, the Democratic leaders of both chambers-often criticized for their meekness in letting their powers erode -sounded especially angry. "If there is one mandate to us above all others," Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield told the Senate Democratic caucus, "it is to exercise our separate and distinct constitutional role in the operation of the Federal Government. The people have called for the reinforcement of the checks and balances." House Speaker Carl Albert similarly vowed to "work harder than I have ever worked in my life . . . to safeguard the constitutional role...
...system as giving "national power to people who are responsible to a limited constituency; Wilbur Mills, one of the most able men in Congress, is not chairman for Little Rock, but for Los Angeles and Long Beach and Prescott, Ariz." Udall has proposed a plan for the majority-party caucus to elect committee chairmen from among the three senior members on each committee, and by secret ballot. In sum, it may well be necessary to drop or at least modify the seniority system in order to encourage more legislators to develop expertise, with the expectation of gaining influence sooner...
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN ANDERSON of Illinois, 49, the senior Republican on the Rules Committee, has a solid reputation as one of the most eloquent and outspoken members of the House. A firm advocate of civil rights who is chairman ot the party caucus, he looks with distaste on the present state of Congress: "I feel I am a creature and a child of Congress," he said last week, "and when I see what has happened to this body, it pains me beyond words...